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.
Austin Playhouse’s world premiere of ‘She Was Here’ is a touching portrait of an ever-changing city and the strength of the people who live here
We've all met women like these; many of us have parents, aunts, sisters, or daughters just like these, and the portrait Garza and Austin Playhouse paint of these women and their struggle is like a warm hug after a long, hard day.
Broadway in Austin’s ‘Clue’ is an over-the-top, laugh-a-minute evening of farce
Clue plays all of its actions to their very back rows, with exaggerated performances that take the essence of their game and film counterparts, and ratchets the camp knob up until its liable to break...It won't be a play for everyone, to be sure, but for those that don't a mind a quick slice of over-the-top humor, you could do far, far worse.
‘A Million More to Go’ is a dark, droll, if uneven slice of twisted political satire
Despite its faults, A Million More to Go is a solid piece of absurdist political satire, with a stellar ensemble, often riotous dialogue, and intriguing world-building. It's also a great opportunity to support original work by a local playwright, something that can be hard to come by in this city. Jarrott Productions continues to bring unique works to the Austin stage, and this is another feather in the cap for the company, and may just act as a calling card for its associate company Cinnamon Path as well.
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