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Theater review: Forever Plaid

Alex Ross stars as Smudge in the musical Forever Plaid. Forever Plaid (playing at the Campus Theatre) is Denton Community Theatre's latest offering in their 40th Anniversary Season. Written almost 20 years ago by Stuart Ross, the piece is of the ...

From CLYDE BERRY OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Alexander Ross,  Buddy Holly,  Patsy Cline,  The Beach Boys (musician),  Rod Stewart

Theater review: Sweeney Todd

Casa Manana's production of Sweeney Todd (playing at the Casa Manana Theatre) hit me like a blowtorch to the brain last night. It's partly because I had only a vague awareness of the title as a famous Broadway show, and I had mixed it up in my mind ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  13 Nov 2009

Theater review: A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind (now playing in the Studio Theatre at Addison Theatre Center) doesn't just debunk romance. It skewers romance and sears it. And us in the process. Curiously, at the same time it mocks and derides love it doesn't exactly ...

From CHRISTOPHER SODEN OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sam Shepard

Theater review: Premiere!

Premiere! (presented by Rover Dramawerks at the Cox Building Playhouse in Plano) is one of the last plays written by Dale Wasserman, and it's easy to see how an aging playwright, when pondering his legacy, would turn his thoughts to the most remembered ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hawkins, Inc.

Theater review: The Hallelujah Girls

Welcome to the wacky world of Spa-Dee-Dah! Day Spa in Eden Falls, Georgia, where Sugar Lee Thompkins and the rest of her middle-aged gal pals spend quality time together, while Sugar pursues a "dream deferred" after what would seem to be a lifelong ...

From CHRISTOPHER SODEN OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barbara Cartland,  Neil Simon,  Zsa Zsa Gabor

Theater review: The Butler Did It

Do the words "Detective Mystery" and "Butler" evoke any kind of immediate response in your mind? Did you perhaps think of Ellery Queen, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or maybe Peter Falk wearing his shabby trench coat as Columbo? If you had you ...

From MATT GUNTHER OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Peter Falk,  Alex Trebek,  Jeremy Irons,  Greg Williams

Theater Review: Master Harold and the Boys

DESOTO Segregation in America and apartheid in South Africa may be gone, but the emotional impact remains strong in stories like Master Harold and the Boys, presented by the African American Repertory Theater in Desoto. Many of us have no memory of a ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  23 Oct 2009

Theater review: Running in the Red

The scene is the 1934 living room of an upscale New York City apartment, handsomely decorated and serene until the arrival of a cast of zany characters who bring mayhem to the stage at ONSTAGE in Bedford's production of (now playing at the ONSTAGE ...

From GINA ROBERTSON OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: George Burns,  Columbia University,  Lucille Ball

Theater review: Breathe

Many shows you see about gay people focus on the unflattering, often picaresque aspect of our lives, not that we would have chosen to be categorized as rebels or iconoclasts. Numerous plays, films, television series exhibit the demeaning or simply ...

From CHRISTOPHER SODEN OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  14 Oct 2009

Theater review: My Sister in This House

DALLAS Despite the grisly results, the murders committed by Christine and Lea Papin captured the imagination, psyche and political sensibilities of great philosophers, psychoanalysts, artists, the population of France (and the rest of the world) when ...

From CHRISTOPHER SODEN OF JOHN GARCIA'S THE COLUMN, Pegasus News,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Jean Genet

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