Paper Chairs' Poor Herman

Elizabeth Doss' new play shows the literary lion Melville to be just like one of us

"...to be a real piece of work. But playwright Elizabeth Doss, whose bloodline lets her claim Melville as her..."

May 20, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Paper Chairs' The Audience

Elizabeth Doss' adaptation of García Lorca's unfinished play is less a drama than a dream, unbound by logic, reason, or convention

"...– or death – to know that The Audience, Elizabeth Doss' new adaptation of El Público for the Austin..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Paper Chairs’ Catalina de Erauso

Elizabeth Doss’ latest plays with history in a way that serves its feminist hero, and it’s also a comedy that knows its stuff

"...In Elizabeth Doss' new script about Catalina for Paper Chairs, the..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Mast

Elizabeth Doss' new play is about lost souls not sure when to give up and go home

"...sailors, even if their seafaring is not so literal. Elizabeth Doss' new play Mast from Paper Chairs is a..."

July 31, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Paper Chairs Makes Theatre With a Little Lone Star Surregionalism

The Texas premiere of Will Arbery’s Plano play knows place like home

"...direct this work only to botch the whole deal; Elizabeth Doss, Heather Hanna, Hannah Kenah, and the rest of..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

MoM's Kids

A Partial Who's Who at MoMFest 2000

"...Heather Barfield & Elizabeth Doss To look at Heather Barfield and Elizabeth Doss,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lit Meals on Wheels

'Road Show: Four Way Stop' finds literature in the everyday

"...Writer-director Elizabeth Doss, curator of Living Lit events for Fusebox, explains:..."

April 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

Knot a Secret

After 17 years, playwright Hank Schwemmer is finally getting seen

"...Actor, playwright, and Paper Chairs company member Elizabeth Doss, who was 17 when she performed in "The..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hillcountry Underbelly

You can feel Elizabeth Doss' new play rising from deep in her past and this land

"...parent's death, these figures are most familiar. But playwright Elizabeth Doss gives them all fresh, quirky voices, as she..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'Murder Ballad Murder Mystery'

Paper Chairs resurrects its hit musical as portable, hit-and-run bar entertainment

"...with Murder Ballad Murder Mystery, the backwoods musical by Elizabeth Doss (book) and Mark Stewart (score) that scored critical..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Uncaged

Wayne Alan Brenner's friend Sylvia has an opinion about the Vortex Repertory Company's workshop performance Uncaged: The public deserves more for its money than an end-of-the-workshop variety show unless what's onstage is well-performed and original, and except for a handful of pieces by a few participants -- most notably the emcee Ratgirl -- she thinks this isn't.

"...Ratgirl, I mean. Like that twisted family thing with Elizabeth Doss and Clay Towery, that was pretty clever."..."

June 29, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Paper Chairs' The Repentance of Saint Joan

Patrick Shaw’s new play is less a tale of Joan of Arc’s life than a divine meditation on love lost

"...Elizabeth Doss (who gives us a no-nonsense, fit-for-the-fight Joan), Judd..."

April 6, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Murder Ballad Murder Mystery

You'll be hard-pressed to find a riskier production in Austin this year than this strange string of ballads and mysteries

"...react to this Vortex Repertory-Tutto Theatre Company co-production of Elizabeth Doss' original musical with similar confusion and, perhaps, even..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Exhibitionism

Big River: Pleasantly Adrift

"...here, and so it gnaws at us to see Elizabeth Doss' young woman stumble into the office wide-eyed with..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Review

Paper Chairs' Plano

Paper Chairs' production gets inside the heads of three sisters over a decade that races by in a breakneck 90 minutes

"...happens (set design by Lisa Laratta). Eventually, sister Isabel (Elizabeth Doss) winds up in a brilliant slow-motion wrestling match..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2017

From monsters to mountains, wolves to wild horses, the year came alive with figures boldly created onstage

"...your bracingly inventive direction, and how well it served Elizabeth Doss' exploration of history through the dramatized life of..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Theatre en Bloc's The Totalitarians

This ridiculous but smart satire about a Nebraska political race may be the only political play that can deliver laughs this election season

"...Francine (Elizabeth Doss) is a speechwriter living in Nebraska. She's only..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Rude Mechs' Fixing Timon of Athens

The theatre collective's latest repair job on a broken Shakespeare play is wildly accessible, welcoming, and enthralling

"...would be an understatement, with Austin heavy-hitters Barbara Chisholm, Elizabeth Doss, Ellie McBride, Robert S. Fisher, Lowell Bartholomee, Jay..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Suicide

The title may sound heavy, but this is a black comedy, given an artful and playful new staging by Paper Chairs

"...Russian depressive Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov. In addition, Laratta and Elizabeth Doss make a swell co-directing duo, and many of..."

May 23, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

The B. Beaver Animation

The Rude Mechs' re-creation of the Mabou Mines work is necessary but strange

"...on occasion by the show's other actors: Adriene Mishler, Elizabeth Doss, Aron Taylor, and Ellie McBride. But as with..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

'Bomb Shelter: or the Modern Pinocchio'

A refreshingly different after-the-bomb fable that gets at our impulse to create through a playful acting-out of 'Frankenstein'

"...not in the cards) but to regenerate the culture. Elizabeth Doss' ebullient Kris and Jason Newman's lively Mike –..."

June 27, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Buttons and Bows Show: Hilah's Dollhouse

The strength of The Buttons and Bows Show is Buttons and Bows, beautiful souls whose innocence is charming and heartbreaking

"...Between Mark Stewart's beautifully crafted songs, Elizabeth Doss' appropriate direction, Chase Staggs and Craig Matthew Staggs'..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

An Arabian Midsummer Night's Dream

An Arabian Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't do justice to Shakespeare's comedy, but the goodwill, visual splendor, and flashes of magic in Tongue and Groove Theatre's show can transport you halfway 'round the world

"...inadvertently abrasive character. Veterans such as Mark Stewart and Elizabeth Doss, skilled at playing classical verse and comedy, are..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Not Clown

You're not likely to enter a world as uniquely weird and vibrant as that of Physical Plant Theater's 'Not Clown' any time soon

"...Then a young girl – Linda, excellently played by Elizabeth Doss – stumbles upon the criminal cutups. Seems she..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Cry Pitch Carrolls

The Cry Pitch Carrolls uses three crotchety old widows, a homeless mother and child, and a poodle to address the darker shadows of religion and memory, and Salvage Vanguard Theater's revival of Ruth Margraff's opera is a plush, cloudlike dream.

"...comedic posing as Norma complements the forlorn depth of Elizabeth Doss' Alice. Shawn Sides cleverly uses varieties of vocal..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Moby Dick

In Kirk Smith's stage adaptation of Moby Dick, language comes forth in great waves, in storms of words, soaking our brains with images of the sea, of a white whale, and of a mad captain's pursuit of it, and while the Vortex Repertory Company Summer Youth Theatre production may not always convey every nuance of every line, it does communicate the feel of a life at sea, danger and dread, and the roles played by Destiny and Death.

"...set, making us believe that they are at work. Elizabeth Doss makes Ishmael thoughtful and soft-spoken, as if the..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Moby's Play

Playwright Kirk Smith talks about trying to squeeze a great white whale into a tiny theatre with his adaptation of Moby Dick for Vortex Repertory Company's Summer Youth Theatre.

"...Cullum, serves in that capacity here, and the talented Elizabeth Doss, who plays Ishmael, is none other than Herman..."

July 19, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...Zann) directs a cast of teenagers and adults, including Elizabeth Doss, Melville's great-great-great granddaughter, as Ishmael. July 18-27, Thursday-Sunday,..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One)

The Tongue and Groove Theatre gang have some serious fun with the disconnect between dreaming and waking life in their world premiere production of Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One), a 1940s-era suite of songs linked by spoken text, follows a dreamer across time and space to various landmarks of both the ancient world and the modern U.S.

"...When Stewart dances with the sweet and funny Elizabeth Doss, it took me back to a Saturday Night..."

March 22, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste

It might be hard to imagine that a story about a man who breaks wind for fame and fortune could be called "sweet," but Tongue and Groove Theatre's original musical Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste, about the extraordinary French vaudevillian Joseph Pujol, combines good humor, fun song, bawdy dance, and just enough ribaldry to make for an engaging theatrical show.

"...by Kari Perkins' excellent costumes and moody lighting by Elizabeth Doss and Jennifer Rogers. Amiable Can-Can era showgirls and..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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