• Classic Theatre’s Version of 'Scapin' treats Molière to Pratfalls and Bathroom Humor Pratfalls and Proust, Anderson Cooper and bathroom humor, games with words and Game of Thrones: this is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink... | 5/13/2013
• 'Million Dollar Quartet' at The Majestic Theatre In some ways, this is the world’s easiest review to write: if you admire the music of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins... | 4/4/2013
• 'Aphrodite and the Gods of Love' intoxicates at SAMA San Antonio already possesses one of the choicest collections of classical art in the country, on permanent display in the lovely Ewing Halsell Wing of... | 10/3/2012
• Vexler's 'August: Osage County' production resembles theater's finest August in Bexar County saw (at last!) the local premiere of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of dysfunction... | 9/5/2012
• Woodlawn tackles mental health with rule-breaking, Pulitzer-winning 'Next to Normal' It's next-to-impossible to categorize Next to Normal, but here's a shot: it's a cross between a high-energy rock concert and op-ed column on psychopharmacology. If that seems an awkward hybrid, the show nevertheless boasts friends in high places: the musica | 7/11/2012
• Cellar production short-circuits 'In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play' What's the buzz? Well, for starters, the San Pedro Playhouse has inserted The Vibrator Play into its Cellar (ahem), and in some ways it's a competent... | 6/13/2012
• Pared down 'King Lear' leans hard on script but shows signs of slippage Most young theater companies are rightfully leery of Lear: though an indisputable masterpiece, King Lear is also a fiendishly difficult text. Yet the Classic Theatre... | 5/23/2012
• Bett Butler featuring Joël Dilley: 'American Sampler' There's nothing brassy or flamboyant about local jazz artist Bett Butler's lovely and wistful album of standards: American Sampler is indeed a sample of... | 3/21/2012
• Vexler tackles Arthur Miller's 'A View from the Bridge' The Vexler rings in its spring season with a solid production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, a 1955 tragedy that bridges the divide between the Greek dramatic stage and... | 2/8/2012
• Everything Will Be Different unpacks our cultural war on innocence The Proxy Theater Company opens its first full season with Mark Schultz's genuinely unsettling Everything Will Be Different, an unblinking examination of... | 2/1/2012
• 'Ain't Misbehavin'' marred by wandering spots, challenged deliveries With its production of Ain't Misbehavin' — starring The Jeffersons' Sherman Hemsley — the Josephine is movin' on up… to the most expensive theater ticket in San Antonio... | 1/25/2012
• Five reasons San Pedro Playhouse should keep its hands off 'My Fair Lady' Those who haven't been following my Wicked Stage blog missed a real hullaballoo when I suggested that the San Pedro Playhouse — striving for ever more family friendly... | 1/11/2012
• Spotlights fail National Theatre in ‘Collaborators’ The good news is that the National Theatre Live's broadcasts of selected theatrical performances — analogous to the Metropolitan Opera's popular broadcasts in HD — have now arrived in San Antonio. | 12/7/2011
• Solid Cellar production of ‘Time Stands Still’ seeks proper response to suffering It’s easy to underestimate playwright Donald Margulies, even with his Pulitzer Prize (for the delicious Dinner With Friends) | 10/26/2011
• Mary Poppins delivers Banks children from snootery in style I’m not so proud as to turn up my nose at the obvious wordplay: the touring production of Mary Poppins is, like its titular nanny, practically perfect. | 10/3/2011
• Substance-less style drawn out in 1970s flashback Xanadu The San Pedro Playhouse’s season opener — a musical evisceration of the 1980 cinematic stinker Xanadu — reveals a few truths. | 9/28/2011
• Vexler Theatre presents Thornton Wilder classic With its production of Thornton Wilder’s iconic Our Town, the Vexler lifts a good idea from a Chicago-area theater. | 8/24/2011
• Cameo delivers writer’s block in two acts A new one-woman biographical play about Ann Landers | 7/27/2011
• Classic and Overtime Theaters serve up strange brews The Classic Theatre opens its fourth season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child | 7/13/2011
• Classic Theatre mounts one sturdy 'Hedda' Hedda Gabler $10-$20 8pm Thu-Sat, 3pm matinee Sun Sterling Houston Theatre at Jump-Start 108 Blue Star (800) 838-3006 brownpapertickets.com classictheatre.org Through May 29 The Classic Theatre wraps up its season with a solid producti | 5/18/2011

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