Subject: Joel Sandel

• Grim Meal

  A gluttony of violence forms Eat the Enemy

  September 2, 1999

• The Sweet Hereafter

  Theater LaB produces an almost winsome take on grief and loss with Hushabye Mountain

  November 25, 1999

• A Classic Mistake

  Dated doesn't mean feted at Main Street Theater

  May 16, 2002

• Jesus Is Just Alright

  April 28, 1994

• Dead Men's Tales

  July 7, 1994

• Communist Comedy

  August 25, 1994

• An American Doll's House

  December 1, 1994

• Press Picks

  July 4, 1996

• Winter blasts Macbeth

  August 8, 1996

• Static Wit

  December 5, 1996

• Christmas Treats

  December 11, 1997

• The Politics of the Real

  February 5, 1998

• Sisterhood Is Powerful

  May 7, 1998

• And The Band Plays On

  October 29, 1998

• Passion Play

  February 11, 1999

• Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Electile Dysfunction, Present Laughter

  June 19, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: bare, Big Range Dance Festival, Electile Dysfunction, La Sylphide and A Doll's House, Present Laughter, The Splasher

  June 12, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Bright Lights, Big City, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Splasher, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

  June 5, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Heiress, Mr. Marmalade, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Vagina Monologues

  May 29, 2008

• Love of Language

  March 13, 2008

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 30, 2004

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  April 12, 2007

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  April 5, 2007

• Homebody Alone

  Bring your heart, intellect and stamina to this extraordinary play

  February 15, 2007

• Mindless Mayhem

  Pardon us, but Pardon My English should've stayed in retirement

  January 5, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 15, 2005

• Style Pile

  On the Razzle is a farcical grab bag

  May 26, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 20, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 13, 2005

• Keeping Promises

  Against all odds, Main Street Theater's new show manages to be likable

  January 6, 2005

• Flat Fee

  Employee relations get sticky in Promises, Promises

  December 30, 2004

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  October 7, 2004

• Best Ensemble Production

  September 23, 2004

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 23, 2004

• Dusty Ditties

  Oh, Boy! -- this show, misogyny and all, sure is a relic

  January 8, 2004

• Singing Gabriel

  Joyce's psychological short story The Dead becomes a musical -- and it works

  November 20, 2003

• A Dreamy Midsummer Night

  The Houston Shakespeare Festival brings back the Bard's best in two fresh productions

  August 8, 2002

• Befitting the Bard

  The Shakespeare Festival shows its finest form with two venerable plays

  August 9, 2001

• Meet the Press

  Stoppard's Night and Day places journalism under a high-powered microscope

  June 21, 2001

• The Greek System

  Riotous Die! Mommy! Die! transforms Electra into a Hollywood satire

  January 13, 2000

• Oh, Brother!

  Oh, Kay! may not be okay by 21st-century standards

  October 28, 1999

• Bard's Bargain

  Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew at Miller Outdoor Theatre

  August 5, 1999

• Class Over Kin

  The melodrama Blood Brothers bonds with music

  April 22, 1999

• A year of brave new companies, of fresh keen moments, and of Beckett and Albee evermore

  January 6, 1994