Most of this feature/review ran in American Theatre Magazine online May 3, 2016. Audience response to David Lozano’s and Lee Trull’s Deferred Action, playing through May 14 at Dallas’ Wyly Theatre, a co-production between Cara Mia Theatre Co and Dallas Theater Center: “It was infuriating. I want simple answers and my beliefs reinforced, the way … Continue reading
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Betty Buckley & the Elderberry Wine Hustle: Dallas Theater Center
Dallas is bustin’ out all over February with a wild array of juicy stage productions, never mind that the reactionaries running amok in our state and national guvmints seem determined to get rid of the arts to “balance budgets”, in predictably humorless bureaucratic zeal. Imagine, if you can, a national budget where the arts represent … Continue reading
reasons to be pleased: The Beauty Plays 2010
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Want to bet? Hard truths. Interpersonal dysfunction. Devastating betrayal. Neil LaBute explores relationship abuse overlaid with a heavy dose of misogyny from a variety of perspectives in three of his plays presented as a trilogy by the Dallas Theater Center. The first … Continue reading
