Tag: austin theater
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“The Twilight of the Golds” at City Theatre
If you are (like I was until last week) unfamiliar with Jonathan Tolins’ Twilight of the Golds, the main conflict of the story is a woman who contemplates terminating a wanted pregnancy after finding out via experimental in-utero DNA testing that her baby is 90% likely to turn out gay – shocking and offending her…
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“The Library” at Different Stages
Scott Z. Burns’ The Library is heavy. I guess it would be silly to suggest that any story about a school shooting and its aftermath could be anything but heavy. Different Stages’ current production of The Library (directed by Carl Gonzales and Lacey Cannon Gonzales) is heavy – but not oppressively so. Some hard topics…
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“Back To You” at Austin Rainbow Theatre
Everyone wants to be an auteur. I suppose there’s nothing wrong with being an auteur, as long as you have the talent. I would even argue that the fellow artists an auteur surrounds themself with are just as important as their own sensibilities. Back To You is a two-character play about two gay boys named…
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“The Ghosts of Christmas Past”: A Staged Reading at Archive Theater
The Ghosts of Christmas Past seems to have had a fraught (though brief) history. It was intended (as a full production) to be Archive’s winter show when they announced their 2023 season, but in the middle of October it was cancelled due to a lack of “spirit/force/resources” and actors. Then three weeks later, the show…
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“Miss Lulu Bett” at Different Stages
Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett was written 100+ years ago, but the script is fresh, rich, and modern. It is maddening and hopeful. It’s been a long time since I have felt such real indignation and frustration for a fictional character. (Maybe since I first read Ella Enchanted 20 years ago?) The brief synopsis from…