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Taking WingMany years ago, when Violet O'Valle was a drama teacher in Houston public schools, she discovered a collection of scripts by the great Irish playwright Sean O'Casey in a campus basement. O'Valle, a descendant of South Texas Irish immigrants, knew about O'Casey, of course. He's widely considered to be Ireland's greatest playwright, although his works are not often produced there or abroad. Indeed, the book had been cast aside in that basement as if waiting for the trash bin. O'Valle opened to a random page and read a passage that captured her instantly.
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Bewitching

BewitchingAlthough The Dance on Widow's Row isn't advertised as a Halloween show, Jubilee Theatre's latest comic outing offers up a carnival whirl of splendidly garish cost...
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Agile Acting

Agile Acting Famous playwrights don't offer succinct explanations of their plays very often. Of course, Steve Martin was famous as an absurdist comic star long before he tac...
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Legs and Tails

Legs and Tails Last weekend at Bass Performance Hall, there were many bright spots in Texas Ballet Theater's season-opening performance of The Russian Masters , a repertory prog...
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Falling Water

Falling WaterBy the end of last weekend's performances, Amphibian Productions artistic director Kathleen Anderson Culebro must've been sick of all the jokes she was hearing ...
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