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Frisch's 'Firebugs' offers clarion call about fundamentalists in Iran and the U.S.new
Swiss playwright Max Frisch subtitled The Firebugs, a 1953 radio play that was adapted to the stage in 1958, A Learning-Play Without a Lesson.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-26-2012 |
Performance
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Nightmare on Grayson's final hauntingnew
Gordon Wise is talking to me, but all I can focus on are the knives. There are hatchets, daggers, and something resembling a DIY katana Japanese sword displayed just above his right shoulder on the black office wall behind him.
San Antonio Current |
Isis Madrid |
10-26-2012 |
Performance
Fear stalks the characters of 'I-DJ', but the music plays onnew
Setting a beautiful standard for the new Overtime Theater, I-DJ, written by Gregg Barrios and directed by Matthew Byron Cassi, explores aspects of the late 1970s Chicano movement, homophobia, the rise of disco, and the outbreak of AIDS in L.A. club land as seen through the eyes of gay Chicano DJ Warren Peace.
San Antonio Current |
Lauren A. Silva |
08-02-2012 |
Performance
'Bent' plumbs Nazi Germany's pink triangulationnew
In 1979, when Bent premiered in a London production starring Ian McKellen, homosexuality was still actively persecuted and prosecuted as a sin and crime.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
07-29-2012 |
Performance
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
Composer Tobias Picker tapped to write a lead role for new SA opera companynew
When the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters announced their newly elected members on March 12, it was a good day for Schott Music, the venerable international music publishing company headquartered in Mainz, Germany, since 1770.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-05-2012 |
Performance
Poet Laureate approaches while Grona closesnew
On Tuesday, April 3, Mayor Julián Castro will formally announce nationally recognized poet and author Carmen Tafolla as the first City of San Antonio Poet Laureate.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-02-2012 |
Performance
A double-dip of 'Grosse Fuge'new
The San Antonio Symphony's Beethoven Festival just finished its first week, with performances sponsored by the San Antonio Symphony, Camerata San Antonio, SA International Piano Competition, and more festival partners.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-19-2012 |
Performance
Contempt, Desire Boil Over in Weller’s ‘Fifty Words’new
Why do couples stay married? Love? Devotion? Obligation to children? Or are they held together by habit reinforced by the fear of being alone?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
The Classic Transports to the House of Bernarda Albanew
Matriarch Bernarda Alba runs a tight ship in Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba as she seeks to preserve her five daughters for marriages that suit her landed-gentry bloodline — though, as becomes clear as we watch that control unravel, no one can contain the passions of such willful women.
San Antonio Current |
Katrina Bondari |
10-20-2011 |
Performance
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
So You Want to be in Show Business?new
Once upon a time, suitcase-laden sedans swarmed west down Route 66 to Hollywood, carrying dreams of movie stardom along with extra socks and shoes.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
09-21-2011 |
Performance
Tejano’s “Red Alert”new
The 31st annual edition of the Tejano Music Awards being held at the San Antonio Event Center this Saturday, come during a critical point for the genre.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-08-2011 |
Performance
Berlin Dance Fest Tears Down Boundariesnew
The 17 days of this year’s 23rd International Dance Festival in Berlin will be remembered as a convergence of traditions
San Antonio Current |
Anjelika Jansen |
09-08-2011 |
Performance
