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Woodlawn tackles mental health with rule-breaking, Pulitzer-winning 'Next to Normal'new
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.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
07-16-2012 |
Performance
Cellar production short-circuits 'In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play'new
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 production of Sarah Ruhl's critically acclaimed work.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
06-19-2012 |
Theater
Spotlights Fail National Theatre in ‘Collaborators’new
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.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
12-08-2011 |
Art
Solid Cellar Production of ‘Time Stands Still’ Seeks Proper Response to Sufferingnew
It’s easy to underestimate playwright Donald Margulies, even with his Pulitzer Prize (for the delicious Dinner With Friends) and his influential post as professor of playwriting at Yale. For starters, it’s because, on paper, his dramas might seem slender, improbably tidy, and — depending on your tastes — somewhat bourgeois: oh-so-middle-class professionals with oh-so-middle-class problems.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
10-27-2011 |
Theater
Mary Poppins Delivers Banks Children from Snootery in Stylenew
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.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
10-06-2011 |
Performance
Substance-less Style Drawn Out in 1970s Flashback Xanadunew
The San Pedro Playhouse’s season opener — a musical evisceration of the 1980 cinematic stinker Xanadu — reveals a few truths.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
09-29-2011 |
Performance
A DNA Self-Portraitnew
For just $500 -- give or take a few Ben Franklins -- you can immortalize your genetic code in cyber art.
San Antonio Current |
Thomas Jenkins |
02-22-2006 |
Art
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