Tish Mussey and her brother Martin grew up as army brats, moving frequently and learning that their shared love of theater gave them an identity and something to do together wherever they were. When the siblings ended up in The Colony, now with their own families, they found there wasn’t…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. It’s probably not the best idea to make a play about a cross-country road trip…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Theatre Three and its downstairs lair, Theatre Too, are on a John Bucchino kick. The…
November is early for valentines, but at Theatre Too love is in the air with It’s Only Life, a 30-song revue by composer John Bucchino. Performed by five attractive young singer-actors, accompanied lovingly on grand piano by Terry Dobson, the 100-minute show begins as a look into quirks of the…
Watching Bob Costas interrogate the unseen, unrepentant Penn State shower jockey Jerry Sandusky on NBC’s Rock Center Monday night — and then in replay every hour since — was a worthwhile reminder of how good Costas is when he’s allowed to be. He drilled Sandusky, pardon the expresh, for quibbling…
The new rock-and-roll musical is called On the Eve. Actor Michael Federico wrote it with his friends Seth and Shawn Magill, the husband-and-wife team who head up East Dallas band Home by Hovercraft. It’s about Marie Antoinette, sort of, and you can see its debut, in a pay-what-you-can staged reading,…
Have a buck? You could see a play tonight. And a good one at that. The Ochre House theater, Matthew Posey’s hothouse of experimental work, is doing a pay-what-you-can performance of its latest, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of Frida Kahlo. Actress Elizabeth Evans, looking eerily like the artist, plays…
Once upon a time, there were fewer TV channels but better TV shows. Now there are many, many TV channels, but a narrower range of attractive choices. You get many hours of Kardashians and many more hours of shows that cover things that happen on the Kardashians’ shows. In the…
Seeing any show at Matthew Posey’s 40-seat Ochre House is a bit like watching a circus unfold in a walk-in closet. So much happens in so little square footage that you come out with your head buzzing, wondering why a big theater like the Wyly doesn’t use its vast expanse…
With her dark unibrow and shadow of upper lip fuzz, Dallas actress Elizabeth Evans looks eerily like the title character in the Ochre House’s latest production, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of Frida Kahlo. Her resemblance to the iconic Kahlo isn’t why Ochre House founder and artistic director Matthew Posey…
Get a bunch of local musical theater stars together and there will be singing. Plus some gratuitous kissy-face, lots of hugs and a little gossip about who’s got what role where. Monday night at Kalita Humphreys Theater, dozens of DFW’s busiest professional actors mingled with family and friends at a…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Once again, Irving’s Lyric Stage has found gold in an old, rarely done American musical…
There is a fiddler and there is a roof in Rags, the 1986 musical getting a splendid revival at Irving’s Lyric Stage. But those aren’t the only things it has in common with that other piece of American musical theater featuring Russian Jews belting show tunes. The books for Rags…
Driving through Arkansas not long ago, I turned on the radio and scanned for local stations talking about anything but rightwing politics or Jesus. It was early on a Saturday morning and I stopped on a show called “The Trading Post.” In a drawl you could drizzle on a waffle,…
The smaller roles and the actors who play them are the reasons to see To Kill a Mockingbird, now playing at the Wyly Theatre in a Dallas Theater Center production. Anastasia Muñoz, playing both the judgmental “Miss Stephanie” and the rape-accuser Mayella Ewell, is so good you probably won’t realize…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. For years we’ve waited for veteran Dallas actress Sally Soldo to get a solid starring…
Need new décor for your coven? Something to camouflage the bloodstains on the basement wall? Local thrift and vintage stores are well stocked with affordable, terrifying pieces of art depicting death’s heads and visions of hell. We found some thrilling, chilling pictures (and one creepy pillow) at Dolly Python, White…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Oh, girl, we gotta talk. Actually, we gotta be quiet while Haley Walker talks to…
One of the last things Steve Jobs was working on, before he died October 5, was television. He told biographer Walter Isaacson about it and a few details are included in the just-published book Steve Jobs. “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,”…
Two good Dallas actresses are getting their due in a pair of shows obsessed with courtship, marriage and the whole damn thing called love. One play will make you feel good about all that. The other won’t, but it does afford its star, Sally Soldo, the sweetest role she’s had…
Dallas actor and painter Aidan Langford rolls like a rock star. He has a driver to chauffeur him to and from the theaters where he’s performing. His agent is busy fielding offers for acting and modeling gigs. At home, he has someone cooking and serving the meals he likes. Being…
Have a hot idea for a play? Start typing. Deadlines are fast approaching for several local playwriting competitions and not a few national ones. Scripts as short as 10 minutes are wanted by some contests. Others offer large cash prizes for full-length plays. The secret to winning one of these?…
