Email Author David Theis
2011 Stories by David Theis
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Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oliver Twist, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Zombie Prom
published November 3, 2011
Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>
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Professors, Poetry and Public Sex
published October 6, 2011
When Troy Schulze's character Bernard ambles onto the tiny stage of Catastrophic Theatre's "micro-theater" to open There Is a Happiness That... More >>
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There Is a Happiness That Morning Is at Catastrophic Theatre: Get Ready to Get Culturally Slapped
published Sep 26, 2011
The setup: After making their audiences bust a gut laughing at their summer Tamarie revue, Catastrophic Theatre likes to begin a new season by slapping that same audience upside the head. In a good w... More >>
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Capsule Stage Reviews: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Who Was That Masked Man?, Sylvia
published August 25, 2011
2nd Annual Festival of Comedy UpStage Theatre's 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy allows local playwrights to strut their stuff in... More >>
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Capsule Stage Reviews: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Three Murders and It's Only Monday, Who Was That Masked Man?
published August 18, 2011
2nd Annual Festival of Comedy UpStage Theatre's 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy allows local playwrights to strut their stuff in... More >>
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True Grit: David Mamet's American Buffalo
published Aug 15, 2011
The setup: American Buffalo is an early David Mamet play, so you know that it's going to feature tough talk from unsavory, pathetic people. Men, to be precise. This 1976 play is set in a basement ju... More >>
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Taming of the Shrew a Clownish Delight at Houston Shakespeare Festival
published Aug 02, 2011
See our review of Houston Shakespeare Festival's Othello here. The setup: Act Two of the Houston Shakespeare Festival is off to a rousing start with its production of The Taming of the Shrew. The fes... More >>
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Shakespeare Infusion
published August 4, 2011
I hate to say this, but summer trips to Miller Outdoor Theatre's — and UH's — Houston Shakespeare Festival had come to have a whiff of... More >>
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The Wire's Seth Gilliam a Powerful Othello in Houston Shakespeare Festival Production
published Aug 02, 2011
The setup: The Houston Shakespeare Festival production of Othello carries an unusual amount of star power. The tragically jealous Moor is played by The Wire alum Seth Gilliam, and the play is directed... More >>
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Spirit Revival
published June 16, 2011
Blithe Spirit director Claire Hart-Palumbo must've had her hands full just a week before the play opened, when she had to recast its... More >>
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Main Street Theater Shakes Off An Awkward Start For Blithe Spirit
published Jun 10, 2011
The set-up: Blithe Spirit is Noel Coward's famous comedy that asks the question, "What happens if death do us not partr" Charles Condomine, a fussy English novelist and his new wife, Ruth, are haunted... More >>
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Monster Talent
published May 19, 2011
The Monster at the Door, in its world premiere at the Alley Theatre, begins innocently enough. An artist named Maya (Portia) arrives... More >>
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Funny, Gruesome, Beautiful Monster at the Door
published May 05, 2011
The setup: Gregory Boyd certainly has an eye for young talent. A few years ago he invited then nearly unknown playwright Rajiv Joseph to become an Alley Company Artist, and in 2009 the company staged... More >>
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Capsule Stage Reviews: The Marriage of Figaro, King Lear, Come Back, Little Sheba, Under the Big Dark Sky
published April 28, 2011
The Marriage of Figaro Mozart's sublime opera is all about love. All kinds, from raunchy seduction to moonlight serenade. Based on... More >>
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A Masterful King Lear from Classical Theatre Company and The Prague Shakespeare Festival
published Apr 25, 2011
The setup: There is so much to praise in the Classical Theatre Company and The Prague Shakespeare Festival's joint production of King Lear (which is playing in repertory with As You Like It) that I ... More >>
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Unsolved Mysteries
published April 7, 2011
Yankee Tavern opens in a seedy New York City bar that time and customers have forgotten. The bar's fresh-faced owner, Adam (Adam... More >>
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Aimless Spirits Haunt Stages' Yankee Tavern
published Mar 23, 2011
Yankee Tavern, which just began its run at Stages, doesn't completely hang together dramatically. Playwright Steven Dietz sends his plot spinning off in too many directions. You might say that it's ... More >>
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August: Osage County
published March 3, 2011
In outline, Tracy Letts's August: Osage County sounds rather derivative. It's an intense family drama featuring a frightening,... More >>
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Oh The Humanity
published February 10, 2011
Oh, the Humanity and other exclamations begins with a disorienting bang. A disheveled and nervous-looking Coach (Philip Lehl) walks... More >>
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Capsule Stage Reviews: Bus Stop, Gee's Bend, Triple Focus, Weekend with Pablo Picasso
published February 10, 2011
Bus Stop In the 1950s, William Inge was lauded along with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller as one of the three great American... More >>
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Weekend with Pablo Picasso: A Little Thin
published Feb 04, 2011
The Setup: Herbert Siguenza, writer and actor in the one-man show Weekend with Pablo Picasso, has said that his purpose here is to make the audience feel "like they are spending an intimate weekend wi... More >>
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Capsule Stage Reviws: Candida, Don Carlo, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Year of Magical Thinking
published February 3, 2011
Candida There's no front curtain at Classical Theater's production of George Bernard Shaw's sparkling comedy, so when you enter... More >>
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Book-To-Stage Adaptation Lacks Drama
published Jan 28, 2011
The Setup: The idea of adapting Joan Didion's bestselling memoir The Year of Magical Thinking to the stage sounds thrilling, and almost plausible. The book, which mostly describes Didion's emotional a... More >>
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