Theater Review
Dwelling on memory, loss, and redemption, Noah Haidle’s Vigils is a fitting way to mark 9/11 and the coming of autumn. But where Kitchen Dog Theater’s production succeeds in its introspection, the play itself feels tedious in its repetitions.

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.

There’s a code-breaking in Preston Jones’ Texan play, “The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia,” playing at the Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. But at its heart, Jones’ play is nostalgic for a core code even as it abolishes segregationism in the 1960s.

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George Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s dull, trifling script insists on its own messianic purpose to save theater. By so doing, it rapidly draws towards its post-mortem.

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With Holy Rollers’ savvy handle of the ancient gods’ affairs in the boudoir and on the altar, and with his clever timing of the gods’ game alongside human history, he could have opted out of the toilet shtick. It’s like watching the smart nerd fart for the sake of befriending the fratboys.

One-Thirty Productions performs Ellsworth Schave’s Under a Texaco Canopy and Echo Theatre performs Alice Gerstenberg’s Overtones at the Festival of Independent Theaters.

It’s more the plays, than the cast and directing, that keep Audacity Lab’s “Arsenic and Roses” and Wingspan’s “Seagulls” from ever getting off the ground at the Festival of Independent Theaters.

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The Drama Club adapts a Grimm fairy tale, “The Old Woman in the Wood” for the Festival of Independent Theaters

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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.

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A stake-out gone wrong leads to ensuing madness in the Water Tower Theatre’s Unnecessary Farce. Suddenly, there’s a Scottish Clan on the loose. Guns are waved limply around, but inevitably the comforters on the beds end up softening the threat of violence.