The Decade Onstage
This list of 10 great shows doesn't pretend to be anything like a comprehensive critical overview of Fort Worth theater in the '00s. I've...
Nutty
It's no secret that The Nutcracker's great box-office appeal is a fabulous boon for dance companies. In a recent newspaper interview, New York City...
Christmas Presence
The December holidays draw ticketbuyers who would never dream of darkening a theater door the rest of the year. They seek traditional, familiar shows,...
Taking Wing
Many years ago, when Violet O'Valle was a drama teacher in Houston public schools, she discovered a collection of scripts by the great Irish...
Bewitching
Although 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...
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...
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 program...
Falling Water
By 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...
Rabbit Redux
What a strange play is Harvey, Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner. It's as dated and syrupy sweet as a fruitcake, yet it also...
Hot Shorts
Depending on how you look at them, Andy Warhol's famous early short films Kiss (1963) and Blow Job (1964) are either cunning scams on...
