Art Beat

Overtime, Trinity team up for ’8′ reading

Jan 30th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

The Overtime Theater and Trinity University’s theater department are teaming up to produce a one-night-only staged reading of “8,” Dustin Lance Black’s play about the court case seeking to overturn California’s Proposition…



First impression: ‘Rent’

Jan 29th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

Director Jonathan Pennington cast strong voices for “Rent,” a show he’s wanted to do for a long time. Frank Grisby stands out as Tom Collins — his grief-stricken delivery of “I’ll Cover You” is a highlight. Att…



First impression: ‘Rent’

Jan 29th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

Director Jonathan Pennington cast strong voices for “Rent,” a show he’s wanted to do for a long time. Frank Grisby stands out as Tom Collins — his grief-stricken delivery of “I’ll Cover You” is a highlight. Att…



First impression: ‘The Orphans’

Jan 28th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

BOERNE — “The Orphans,” which opened this weekend at Boerne Community Theatre, tells the odd-but-compelling tale of the Spangler sisters (Linda McCullers and Allison Dietz), aging spinsters haunted by the deaths of their parents. The …



Review: ‘Captain Cortez’

Jan 28th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

Editor’s note: A midnight show has been added to Saturday night. It had to happen eventually. In this month’s episode of “The Adventures of Captain Cortez and the Tri-Lambda Brigade,” titled “The Castaways,” the crew…



Vex’s 2012-’13 season opens with ‘Osage’

Jan 27th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

The details are still being worked out, but the folks at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre have chosen the four shows they’ll present in the 2012-’13 season. Head honcho Ken Frazier and crew will stage “August: Osage County;” “Gl…



First impression: ‘Everything Will Be Different”

Jan 26th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat

Proxy Theatre has pulled together a completely engaging staging of “Everything Will Be Different,” a vivid look at the life of a grieving teen (Allie Perez) struggling to figure out sex, beauty and womanhood following the death of her mothe…



Last chance to catch ‘Still Hungry’

Jan 25th, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat

COURTESY JENNIFER CROWDER “Big, Bad and Beautiful: Still Hungry,” the late Alicia Fernandez’s unflinching look at the lives of full-bodied women, is getting a welcome revival courtesy of a revived form of her company, Daddy’s Gi…



What a girl wants unexpected

Jan 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat

The latest offering from playwright TJ Young is “The Guys You Slept With,” a well-structured piece about a woman (Kristen Hinton) who is absolutely sure she knows what she wants from a guy.



‘Lady’ to be dedicated to Christian

Jan 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Art Beat, Theater

The San Pedro Playhouse will dedicate “My Fair Lady,” which is slated to rub March 16-April 14, to Frank Christian. Christian, who died earlier this month, frequently appeared at the theater. When Norbert Gonzales, the theater’s inter…