Unbury Your Gays is both a joy and a heartbreak to watch. It captures the sense of awkward, freewheeling whimsy of teen-hood, while also exploring the specific loneliness of queer desire. The honesty and nuance of these performances are really something to behold, all held up by a script and production team that make numerous smart choices to create a breathtaking world. It's the perfect way to greet this year's Pride Month, and a fine feather in the cap of one of Austin's most promising up-and-coming companies.
Ground Floor’s ‘I Wanna Be a F*cking Princess’ is a humorous, harrowing, but heartfelt, ode to womanhood
I Wanna Be a F*cking Princess is a profound examination of what it means to be a woman in today's society, full of earnest and heartfelt performances from an exquisitely chosen cast of some of Austin's best actresses.
Dirty Gold’s ‘Venus in Fur’ is a smartly-crafted, scintillating battle of the sexes with a clever, courageous cast
Venus in Fur is an absolute wonder, a smart, sexy, stunning work, where it's obvious that everyone involved is completely committed to the vision, featuring some of the best performances I've seen this year.
Austin Playhouse brings us to the Riviera with a talented cast and a ton of laughs in ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’
Summer has started early at Austin Playhouse, as the company brings Austin audiences to the shores of the French Riviera for their latest production, a hilarious, if limited, rendition of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Color Arc’s ‘Wanna Play’ is a compassionate, clever bit of candy-coated catharsis
"Wanna Play" is is a raw nerve coated in cotton candy, trauma as transmitted through an arcade cabinet, but it's also work of exceptional honesty, treating its troubled, damaged characters with real empathy and grace, and those are two things that all of us, in these troubled times, could use a little more of.
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