Alexandra is a theatre performer, director, producer, coach and teacher. Published author. Arts advocate, theatre critic and feature writer. Progressive political organizer and activist. Latin tutor. Non-profit arts and environmental education event coordinator. Accomplished horsewoman and equestrian entrepreneur. In 2008 she was named an Annneberg/ National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in theatre criticism.
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Fill Your Head
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 16 November 2009
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Theater Review
Ochre House’s Empty Room
Through November 21, 825 Exposition Avenue

The Lying Mind
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 9 November 2009
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Theater Review
A Lie of the Mind at Second Thought Theatre
Through November 14

A Mid-Autumn Night’s Nightmare
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Architecture, Art, Theater on 3 November 2009
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I was very curious to see what the experience of attending a performance at either the new Wyly Theatre would be like. I got my chance. I call the evening “My Nightmare on Pearl St.”

Talk With ‘Tude
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 2 November 2009
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Theater Review
Upstart Productions proves it has the attitude and cojones to tackle Eric Bogosian’s Pulizer Prize-nominated play Talk Radio.

Waltzing A World Without Collisions
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Theater on 28 October 2009
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Theater Review
The African American Repertory Theater presents South African playwright Athol Fugard’s Master Harold…and the Boys.

Singing, Dancing in the Desert
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 15 October 2009
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Theater Review
Writer Stephen Cole and composer David Krane’s wacky re-telling of their most un-likely commissioning, The Road to Qatar, is an enchanting and hilarious piece of musical theater.

Misspelled Success
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 1 October 2009
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Theatre Three’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee brought audiences to its feet, but what makes the play attractive – its youth-like vigor and buzzing tempo – leave the musical feeling shallow.

Zombie Shakespeare
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 28 September 2009
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Shakespeare Dallas’ Julius Caesar offers lots of spectacle, vivid sound effects, flashy swordplay and histrionics, but it is sure hard to follow the plot as presented or understand the nature and motivations of the key characters.

Mad Lite
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Feature 1, Reviews, Theater on 31 August 2009
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The Ochre House’s Coppertone III: Asylum consists of two sets of loosely-at-best scripted skit, with crammed together whiffs of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Mommy Dearest, and Rocky Horror. The full house opening night audience came prepared to roar with laughter at the lowbrow, kinda lame humor and got a bellyful.

Papal Politics in a Theater of Nobility
By Alexandra Bonifield
Posted in Art, Reviews, Theater on 21 July 2009
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Theater Review
MBS Productions narrative drama John XII is a unique interweaving of historical fact and torchy romance, but the former never lapses into dry and dull while the latter piques the prurient keyhole voyeur in all who attend the enactment mass.