Dallas native playwright Regina Taylor’s new play Bread, in its world premiere as commissioned and produced by Water Tower Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre, promises a tasty treat judging by the enticing scents wafting out from its dramatic oven as it opens. It’s a play you hope to sit back with, inhale deeply and … Continue reading
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Performing Kate Hamill: A Bold Risk for Water Tower Theatre
The concept of “re-imagining” performance art seems to be en vogue lately, discussed and debated as if it’s something new, innovative. There’s nothing much new about it. William Shakespeare “re-imagined” virtually every play published under his name, and it has worked out quite well for him and about 500 years’ worth of theatre audiences. Very … Continue reading
Hit or Miss? HIT THE WALL at Water Tower Theatre
Underwhelmed. Puzzled about it. When I attend a play heralded as a product of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, I expect to experience a performance of depth, resonance and drama. I attended Water Tower Theatre’s opening night regional premiere performance of Ike Holter’s Hit the Wall (running through August 20), anticipating a wow. I waited and waited. … Continue reading
Donald Fowler’s CREEP: A soaring spectacle at WaterTower Theatre
From the moment the first note of music pierces the darkened hall, a chill slides up the backbone. As a wraith-like array of haggard, hollow-eyed, rag-wrapped denizens of the back alleys of late 19th century London come crawling up onto WaterTower Theatre’s stage through underground sewer grates and sidle and sway in out of the … Continue reading
Secrets Lurk Beneath: World Premiere of Donald Fowler’s “Creep”
At age 39, Dallas-based actor Donald Fowler decided to spend his 40th birthday in Paris…. After one late night out on the town, he spied a woman sitting on a park bench on a darkened tree-lined street and paused. A cascade of brown leaves tumbled down on her, never disturbing her stillness. The image stayed … Continue reading
Sisterhood of Synchronicity: “Manicures and Monuments” at WaterTower Theatre
“Life comes in cycles, appearing when we’re ready for them,” muses Dallas area leading stage director Susan Sargeant. Stepping out of her customary role as Producing Artistic Director of WingSpan Theatre, Sargeant helms the production of local playwright Vicki Cheatwood’s play “Manicures and Monuments”, opening on Water Tower Theatre’s Main Stage June 5, 2015. … Continue reading
On the Edge, Out of the Loop 2015: Take One
Now in its 14th year of inspired, quirky, performance, Water Tower Theatre’s OUT OF THE LOOP FRINGE FESTIVAL provides its eager audience with another diverse array of intriguing, thought provoking works of promise. I’m not seeing everything by a long shot (pothole blown tire assured that tonight), but here are capsule reviews of what I’ve … Continue reading
Arrested Mid-stride: “Full Gallop” at Water Tower Theatre
Wearing a severe, elegant, black pantsuit with a few carefully selected, distinctive accessories, actress Diana Sheehan glides into Water Tower Theatre’s swank 1970’s era NYC apartment living room set with all the confidence, grace and elegance of a pedigreed Grand Prix level dressage horse striding onto a manicured dressage court to compete for Olympic Gold. … Continue reading
It’s Still A Man’s World: “Dogfight” at WaterTower Theatre
WaterTower Theatre has a bonafide hit on its stage in Dogfight, a 2012 Off Broadway musical by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, based on a 1991film of the same name. With masterful direction by Terry Martin, it oozes seductive, nostalgic allure, set on the eve of the JFK assassination in 1963 (which figures nowhere in … Continue reading
Little Shop of Ho-Hum
Guest Review by Robert Neblett For a B-movie science fiction musical comedy about a bloodthirsty man-eating plant from outer space that threatens to take over the Earth, WaterTower Theatre’s current production of Little Shop of Horrors offers relatively little bite. Little Shop of Horrors is based upon a low-budget 1960 cult film by Roger Corman … Continue reading
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