Spooky houses aim more for farce than frights in ‘Irma Vep’ and ‘Addams’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor The program for The Mystery of Irma Vep, now at WaterTower Theatre, explains how all the roles will be performed by just two actors doing break-neck costume changes. If only that were so. Vep — [...]
John de los Santos tackles gay composer Michael John LaChiusa’s dark musical about bed-hopping ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor A show with a title like Hello Again sounds like it might be an ‘80s rom-com about a ghost haunting his dad, or an NBC sitcom about divorced couples comically forced to live with each [...]
Gay Broadway veteran Douglas Sills is the apple of ‘Addams’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Douglas Sills owes a lot to touring in musicals — mostly, a 20-year relationship. Sills was playing the villain in the national tour of The Secret Garden — the production that came through Dallas — when he met Todd, [...]
Gay dads, codependence and the post-feminist cleverness of ‘Becky Shaw’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor A closeted gay dad squanders his fortune while carrying on a torrid affair with his Japanese financial adviser; meanwhile, his wife hires rent boys while his overeducated, under-realized daughter soaks herself in dramatic grieving. Just a typical upper-class family [...]
Rod and Ricky, stars of T3’s ‘Avenue Q’, get their Pride on with a gay wedding On Sept. 16, a 51-year-old will walk down the route of the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade for the first time ever. And it’s name is Theatre 3. The Uptown theater company just launched its 51st season with, of [...]
2 heartfelt musicals, 1 gut-busting comedy show start fall’s theater season ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Rent is the most problematic of musicals: A great score, a great story and I’ve never seen a staging of it that really did it justice. The book is weak — transitions are awkward (though you can tell [...]
The gay creative team for Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Kooza’ take an absurdist romp through the imagination of The Trickster With most productions from the Canadian group Cirque du Soleil — big top spectacles that combine circus acts, comedy and abstract music wrapped around a fantasy dramatic presentation — you can’t quite tell what it will be [...]
Gay actor Jon Riddleberger is the head of ‘War Horse’ … literally ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor It’s not uncommon for stage actors to play multiple characters during the run of a show (or even a performance). But every night, Jon Riddleberger shares the same role with two other people. And that role is [...]
