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Austin Playhouse’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show
Claire Grasso
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Austin Playhouse’s Shakespeare in Love
The Oscar-winning film makes a successful transition to the stage through Don Toner’s marvelous production
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Austin Playhouse’s Bloomsday
Steven Dietz’s rumination on a great love lost lacks some of the vivid passion it needs in this staging
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Silent Sky at Austin Playhouse
This luminous staging of Lauren Gunderson’s play brings wonder to the universe and makes it at once vast and intimate
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Austin Playhouse’s The Explorers Club
Nell Benjamin’s sublimely silly satire of Victorian pomposity ventures where other comedies fear to tread
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Capital T Theatre’s Marie Antoinette
David Adjmi’s play asks just how accountable the French queen was for all her actions
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Top 10 Theatre Performances of 2015
The Austin stage actors who gave the most impressive performances in 2015 just made it look so damned easy
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Austin Playhouse’s The Norwegians
Playwright C. Denby Swanson and director Lara Toner Haddock serve some well-made absurdism in this dark comedy featuring Minnesota’s nicest hit men
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She Stoops to Conquer
Austin Playhouse brought out the impudence of this comedy of manners through a shared vision of sincere simplicity
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Exhibitionism
Austin Playhouse’s colorful production gives heightened dimension to an already heightened farce