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Throws Like a Girl: Catching Gretchen Phillips

Season four of Throws Like a Girl – the Rude Mechanicals’ annual series celebrating women performers – rocks, literally, and Gretchen Phillips explains why

by Patti Hadad February 9, 2007September 30, 2025

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Long on Creativity

In its 14th season, FronteraFest is as inventive, surprising, and out there as ever

by Robert Faires, Patti Hadad, Barry Pineo, Hannah Kenah and Clayton Maxwell February 2, 2007September 30, 2025

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Arts Review

The overall feel of the Austin Playhouse production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is polite and relaxed, but the actors do provide gut-busting performances

by Patti Hadad February 2, 2007September 30, 2025

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Arts Review

Vortex Repertory Company’s latest production, about those weaselly mythological misfits who pull pranks and break rules, Trickster, is an extravaganza

by Patti Hadad January 19, 2007September 30, 2025

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Top 10 Stage Excitements of 2006

by Patti Hadad January 5, 2007September 30, 2025

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Arts Review

Throughout the City Theatre Company production of Reckless, a Christmas tree remains stationary center stage, but that’s about all that’s still in this flighty black comedy

by Patti Hadad December 15, 2006September 30, 2025

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‘La Pastorela’: A funny thing happened on the way to ‘La Pastorela’

Half a millennium after Franciscan missionaries brought the nativity story to Mexico, the Austin Latino Theater Alliance continues the tradition of La Pastorela but also creates something totally new

by Patti Hadad December 8, 2006September 30, 2025

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Review: Different Stages’ Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge

Christopher Durang’s holiday spoof is a kamikaze hayride into a merry miscellany of Christmas entertainments

by Patti Hadad December 1, 2006September 30, 2025

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‘Con Mis Manos’: Everyone’s familia

Misael Martinez’s ‘Con Mis Manos’ takes place in el Valle, and few Latino plays conjure the same sense of place while sensitively portraying a family coping with cancer

by Patti Hadad November 10, 2006September 30, 2025

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Arts Review

The humor in Psycho Beach Party might seem as mindless as the targets, but with Naughty Austin’s production the fun of guys in wigs, dancing hunks, and screaming chicks yanks you in

by Patti Hadad September 29, 2006September 30, 2025

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Arts Review

The Celtic Cultural Center and Renaissance Austin Theatre Company bring O’Neill’s ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten’ to life with an authentically dark and droll Celtic sensibility

by Patti Hadad September 22, 2006September 30, 2025