Email Author Jim J. Tommaney

2011 Stories by Jim J. Tommaney

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Cinderella, Fruitcakes, The Santaland Diaries

  published December 29, 2011

  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever A substitute pageant director has (gasp!) to cast six unruly children to tell the story of The... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, A Christmas Story — A Ghost Story of Christmas, Fruitcakes, The Nutcracker, The Santaland Diaries

  published December 22, 2011

  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever A substitute pageant director has (gasp!) to cast six unruly children to tell the story of The... More >>

• Cinderella

  published December 22, 2011

  The Ensemble Theatre’s lively, rollicking production of Cinderella sheds the gossamer fragility of the fairy tale in exchange... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Fruitcakes, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Nutcracker

  published December 15, 2011

  Anna Bella Eema The world of the surreal and the real is fashioned into bold theatrical relief by playwright Lisa D'Amour, composer... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, The Grand Manner, Museum of Dysfunction IV, The Nutcracker

  published December 8, 2011

  Anna Bella Eema The world of the surreal and the real is fashioned into bold theatrical relief by playwright Lisa D'Amour, composer... More >>

• Gifts Galore

  published December 8, 2011

  The holidays have brought a cornucopia of theatrical splendors to Houston, and the choice is rich indeed. Humor reigns supreme, and gifted... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cinderella, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, Dear Santa

  published December 1, 2011

  Cinderella The Ensemble Theatre's take on Cinderella gives the fairy tale a lively, rollicking treatment. There are moments... More >>

• Dear Santa

  published December 1, 2011

  Theatre Suburbia gives Houston an early Christmas gift with the family comedy Dear Santa, by Norm Foster and Steve Thomas. Set in... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cinderella, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, Dear Santa, My Fair Lady, Oliver Twist

  published November 24, 2011

  Cinderella The Ensemble Theatre's take on Cinderella gives the fairy tale a lively, rollicking treatment. There are moments... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cosi fan tutte, Dear Santa, Speed-the-Plow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, When the Day Met the Night (a moosehunt experience)

  published November 17, 2011

  Così fan tutte Among all of Mozart's splendid operas, perhaps Così is most special, because it has taken the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Oliver Twist, Once on this Island, Skin Deep, Speed-the-Plow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is

  published November 10, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• 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 >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Evil Dead: the Musical, Oliver Twist, The Retreat from Moscow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Wait Until Dark

  published October 27, 2011

  Evil Dead: the Musical Sam Raimi's 1981 cult film The Evil Dead has been reincarnated as a stage musical, with all its gore and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Death, the Musical Romeo and Juliet, String of Pearls, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

  published October 20, 2011

  The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead This theater curiosity is a hybrid — part point-of-view drama, part acting... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Death, the Musical, Romeo and Juliet, A Texas Romance, Wait Until Dark

  published October 13, 2011

  The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead This theater curiosity is a hybrid — part point-of-view drama, part acting... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, Galveston! the Musical!, Guys and Dolls

  published October 6, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This second... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna in the Tropics, Ether Dome, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Republic Day, A Texas Romance, Woof

  published September 29, 2011

  Anna in the Tropics While the cigar rollers toil in a small factory in '20s Tampa, Florida, a new "lector" reads to them to pass the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna in the Tropics, Damaged Divas of the Decades, Ether Dome, Farragut North, Republic Day, Woof

  published September 22, 2011

  Anna in the Tropics While the cigar rollers toil in a small factory in '20s Tampa, Florida, a new "lector" reads to them to pass the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Farragut North, Goodbye Charlie, Kissless the Musical, Once Upon a Mattress, A Triumph of Love

  published September 15, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviws: Damaged Divas of the Decades, Once Upon a Mattress, Sylvia

  published September 8, 2011

  Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Once Upon a Mattress, Sylvia

  published September 1, 2011

  Once Upon a Mattress Once Upon a Mattress is the 1959 musical that introduced Carol Burnett to Broadway. Its initial... More >>

• 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 >>

• 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 >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: RENT, Three Murders and It's Only Monday, Who Was That Masked Man?

  published August 11, 2011

  RENT The rock musical RENT, inspired by La Bohème, recreates Manhattan's East Village, with its poverty,... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Don Juan in Hell, Oklahoma!, Who Was That Masked Man?

  published August 4, 2011

  Don Juan in Hell Inside literary lion G.B. Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman (1903) stands a dream scene like no other.... More >>