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With David Stahl and Michael Stuart playing everyone in County Kerry, this Irish comedy is a delight from beginning to end
Don Toner
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Austin Playhouse’s production provides a pleasurable escape from our world of straight talk and minimal etiquette
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Adultery may be a serious matter, but the Austin Playhouse gang succeeds in playing it for farcical fun
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Austin Playhouse revival reminds us that the war between creationists and Darwinists still isn’t finished
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As written by Brian Friel and performed by Babs George and Don Toner, Afterplay is a waltz of the walking wounded danced with stately grace to a beautifully elegiac tune
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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
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Culture Flash!
Still time left to get some free theatre, laurels for historian Oscar Brockett and director Don Toner, and a new baby for the first couple of Salvage Vanguard Theater
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There ain’t nothin’ like a ho’-down, and Austin Playhouse’s production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas draws the audience to her big friendly bosom
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Director Don Toner serves his Austin Playhouse revival of
The Odd Couple well by turning its wonderful characters
over to wonderful character actors
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Playing ‘House’ (and ‘Garden’)
At Austin Playhouse, running Alan Ayckbourn’s paired comedies side by side is double the pleasure, double the fun
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‘House’ and ‘Garden,’ Alan Ayckbourn’s coupled comedies performed in tandem by a single cast, is really one show divided between two stages
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In Austin Playhouse’s ‘A Man for All Seasons,’ David Stahl’s immaculate Sir Thomas More stands his moral ground with humility, humor, and insight