Email Author Jim J. Tommaney

2012 Stories by Jim J. Tommaney

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Panto Mother Goose, Sanders Family Christmas, The Santaland Diaries, The White Christmas Album: A Beatles Holiday

  published December 27, 2012

  Panto Mother Goose The latest installment of Stages Repertory Theatre's annual Christmas "pantomimes" has a nimble score by David Nehls but... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: It's a Wonderful Life, Kimberly Akimbo, Sanders Family Christmas, Sylvia, Viv!

  published December 13, 2012

  It's a Wonderful Life Old-time radio drama gets a nostalgic analog tune-up under Texas Repertory Theatre's shrewd adaptation of Frank... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: It's a Wonderful Life, The Santaland Diaries, The Snow Queen, Sylvia

  published December 6, 2012

  It's a Wonderful Life Old-time radio drama gets a nostalgic analog tune-up under Texas Repertory Theatre's shrewd adaptation of Frank... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays!, Love Goes to Press, Sylvia

  published November 29, 2012

  Celebration Theatre specializes in gay theater, and presents its third production, a play set in Greenwich Village in the '50s, centering... More >>

• capsule Stage Reviews: Crazy for You, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays!, Sylvia

  published November 22, 2012

  Crazy for You This is a 1992 version of B'way's 1930 Girl Crazy, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, with a newly... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Fleaven, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Murdering Marlowe,

  published November 15, 2012

  Beebo Brinker's Chronicles Celebration Theatre specializes in gay theater, and presents its third production, a play set in Greenwich... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Assassins, Body Awareness, Fleaven, Murdering Marlowe, The Oldest Profession,

  published November 8, 2012

  Assassins Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's disturbing and deeply inky cult musical (1990), whose main characters happen to be either... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Body Awareness, The Italian Girl in Algiers, La Bohème, The Oldest Profession, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

  published November 1, 2012

  Body Awareness It's Body Awareness Week at Shirley State College, a small liberal arts school in Vermont, and our typical American... More >>

• Mother Courage

  published November 1, 2012

  Mother Courage and Her Children is acclaimed as Bertolt Brecht's best work, often described as an antiwar play but more... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Death of a Salesman, La Bohème, Much Ado About Nothing, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder

  published October 25, 2012

  Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller's vaunted and much-lauded play remains full of fresh surprises, and the Alley's reverential production is... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Death of a Salesman, Jekyll & Hyde, Life Is a Dream, Missionary Position

  published October 18, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, The Glass Menagerie, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

  published October 11, 2012

  Miss Julie August Strindberg's ground-breaking psychological drama, originally set in Sweden in 1874, is transferred to New Orleans in the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Awesome America!, Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, Life Could Be a Dream, Otello, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

  published October 4, 2012

  Awesome America! In its inaugural production, the Ohana Theatre Company presents four short unrelated plays set in different American... More >>

• Smash Boom

  published September 27, 2012

  The relatively new Black Lab Theatre brings us Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's comedy Boom, which is both contemporary and futuristic. The... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Getting Sara Married, Life Could Be a Dream, Life Is a Dream, Superior Donuts, Women@Art

  published September 27, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Getting Sara Married, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Happily Ever at the Box, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Superior Donuts

  published September 20, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Happily Ever at the Box, Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Superior Donuts

  published September 13, 2012

  2 Pianos, 4 Hands Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra, both talented Canadian pianists and actors trained for careers as classical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Our Town

  published September 6, 2012

  Leading Ladies In Leading Ladies, two down-on-their luck Shakespearean actors seek to impersonate the heirs to an estate, and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Happily Ever at the Box, KOOZA, Leading Ladies, Next Fall, Our Town

  published August 30, 2012

  Happily Ever at the Box Fairy-tale archetypes get a scrumptious musical makeover from our favorite cabaret troupe, The Music Box Theater.... More >>

• 

  COVER STORY

  Houston Theater Awards

  published August 23, 2012

  Check out our slideshow, The Year in Houston... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Happily Ever at the Box, Life Could Be a Dream, Mr. Marmalade, Our Town, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever)

  published August 23, 2012

  Happily Ever at the Box Fairy-tale archetypes get a scrumptious musical makeover from our favorite cabaret troupe, The Music Box Theater.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: KOOZA, Mr. Marmalade, Steel Magnolias, Tamarie Cooper's DOOMSDAY REVUE (the greatest musical ever), The Wrong Side of the Law

  published August 16, 2012

  KOOZA In KOOZA's loose narrative, a shy, foppish character known as The Innocent discovers a world of magic, acrobatics and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: KOOZA, Life Could Be a Dream, The Lion King, Steel Magnolias, The Wrong Side of the Law

  published August 9, 2012

  KOOZA In KOOZA's loose narrative, a shy, foppish character known as The Innocent discovers a world of magic, acrobatics and... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: First Lady Suite, KOOZA, The Lion King, Top Shelf Shorts, Travelsty

  published August 2, 2012

  First Lady Suite After its mesmerizing former production of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, the young Bit of a Stretch Theatre Company... More >>

• Festival of Originals a Theatrical Feast

  published July 26, 2012

  For the 15th year, Theatre Southwest presents its annual array of one-act plays, giving playwrights, directors and actors an opportunity to... More >>