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In Double Exposure, writer/performers Wayne Alan Brenner and David Jewell offer old and new material they’ve created, and their knack for capturing nuance in the mundane entertains
Heather Barfield Cole
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In Randy Wyatt’s ‘9x9x9,’ Coda Theater Project offers a kooky thought piece on life / death and the power of God, but a lack of clarity in presentation undercuts some of the fun
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Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates is a guilty pleasure, offering reflections on relationships, jobs, fashion, and dating through genuinely captivating monologues
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In the St. Edward’s University production of Christopher Durang’s redundantly titled ‘Durang/Durang,’ canonized American plays transform into comedic farce
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Mary Moody Northen Theatre’s ‘Antigone’ opens in riveting fashion, but its clever 1960s concept ultimately doesn’t plumb the depths of this Greek tragedy
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With FronteraFest 2006 in full swing, the January 27 Short Fringe program offered an assortment of theatrical ingenuity, frivolity, and tenderness
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Of Cactuses, Crickets, and Cars
Cataloging the diverse wonders of FronteraFest Long Fringe 2006
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Top 10 Spontaneous Catharses and Other Performance Effects of 2005
‘Chronicle’ theatre writer Heather
Barfield Cole names her 10 favorite performing
arts experiences of 2005
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The 10th-anniversary revival production of playwright Kirk Lynn’s ‘Pale Idiot’ smartly unsnarls a taut knot of text and form
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As the weather cools, Different Stages brings the warmth of rural Ireland to town in its staging of J.M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’
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In Zach’s original production ‘Keepin’ It Weird,’ Dave Steakley displays examples of Austin weirdness as lovable freaks in self-referential spectacle
