Subject: James Black

• Capsule Stage Reviews: John, His Story, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Nursery School Musical, The Pie Dialogues

  March 12, 2009

• Getting Hoarse

  Peter Shaffer's Equus doesn't speak as compellingly to modern audiences

  January 25, 2001

• Of Melodrama and Music

  Of Mice and Men visits two theaters downtown

  January 17, 2002

• Killer Idea

  With summer's arrival, murder and mystery take the stage at the Alley

  June 30, 2005

• Press Picks

  June 2, 1994

• Children's Hour

  November 3, 1994

• Playing the Season

  December 8, 1994

• Journal of the Plague Years

  April 27, 1995

• Oh, Carol!

  December 7, 1995

• Clever Dame

  June 27, 1996

• No Contest

  October 31, 1996

• Old Tales Told New

  December 19, 1996

• An American in London

  June 4, 1998

• Night & Day

  July 2, 1998

• Night & Day

  August 27, 1998

• One Fine Drive

  October 15, 1998

• Night & Day

  November 26, 1998

• He's The Man Who Came to Dinner

  March 5, 2009

• Letters

  July 29, 2004

• The Unexpected Guest Will Keep You Guessing Until the Very End

  Who Knows Whodunit

  July 24, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Othello, Pack of Lies, Young and Fertle,

  March 27, 2008

• Veteran Villain: Othello

  James Black paints a magnificent portrait of evil

  March 20, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: A Christmas Carol, Christmas Tree-O, The Nutcracker, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Twelve Ways of Christmas

  December 27, 2007

• Capsule Stage Reviews: A Christmas Carol, Christmas Tree-O, Mr. Pim Passes By, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Twelve Ways of Christmas, A Wonderful Life

  December 20, 2007

• Coal Miser A Christmas Carol

  Everyone's favorite grump returns

  December 13, 2007

• Doubt

  The Alley stages the marvelous Doubt

  September 13, 2007

• Gentlemen to the End

  February 16, 2006

• Tuesday-Night Fever

  March 23, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  February 1, 2007

• Magic Moment

  The magnificent Moon for the Misbegotten haunts the Alley

  January 25, 2007

• Pot o' Gold

  Riches await Houston theatergoers

  January 4, 2007

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  April 20, 2006

• Soaring Egos

  Forgotten theatrical deities play on in the compelling Orson's Shadow

  April 13, 2006

• Hell Above

  At the Alley, chivalry and honor survive in the face of horror

  March 9, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  December 8, 2005

• Family Tradition

  Dance through the Land of Nod at The Nutcracker

  December 1, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  May 26, 2005

• Growing in Stages

  New places, faces and ideas have transformed Houston's theater scene

  May 5, 2005

• Death to the Salesmen

  Devious deal-closers prey on dimwits in Glengarry Glen Ross

  May 5, 2005

• Elegant Elegy

  The Alley spins new life into Arthur Miller's 50-year-old morality tale

  March 17, 2005

• Best Director

  September 23, 2004

• Black Death

  At the Alley, an old man dies, and everyone's a suspect

  July 8, 2004

• English Muffin

  The Foreigner is right at home at the Alley

  July 31, 2003

• Did She or Didn't She?

  The Alley opens Summer Chills with a play that will keep you guessing till the very end

  July 11, 2002

• Of Actors and Singers

  The Alley and the Opera tackle the same story, but the results couldn't be more different

  February 7, 2002

• Letters

  What a Circus!, Border Nazis?, Maxine's Postmortem

  February 15, 2001

• Abuzz About Bees

  Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown

  May 11, 2000

• Drowning Out The Bridge

  Alley sets and sounds stifle Miller's spare play

  October 7, 1999

• Dyssing Christmas

  Why theater critics get grouchy in December, and a review of the audience at 12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Christmas

  December 23, 1993

• Alley Theatre: Our Town

  October 1, 2009