A Funny, Furious Family Reunion from Hell in August: Osage County.

The wild and wonderful Westons of Oklahoma are back. Think your family’s crazy? This bunch thrives on hard liquor and invective. As the subjects of Tracy Letts’ much-honored play August: Osage County, the Westons are the most pill-addled, booze-soaked, internecine American family to tear up a stage since the Tyrones…

Uptown Players Do It Their Way; In the Heights Hits the Skids

Uptown Players, take a bow. Ten years ago this gay-focused theater company, started by executive producers Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane, put on little shows with little money in a tiny hole of a space off Stemmons Freeway. Now they occupy the 400-seat, city-owned, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Kalita Humphreys Theater…

At Oral Fixation at The MAC, Confessions Are Good for the Soul

Taking private, often painful experiences and making them public is the point of Oral Fixation (An Obsession with True Life Tales). The new monthly series of spoken-word performances drew a full house at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary Tuesday night. Seven writer-reader-actors took solo turns in the spotlight, offering stories loosely…