Jessica Goldman

If you’re going to foist dysfunction on a family, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has certainly showered the Lafayette clan with the motherload in his 2014 play, Appropriate, now onstage at Dirt Dogs. Set in a junk-strewn two-story Arkansas plantation house (another handsome set by Mark Lewis), the Lafayette siblings, Toni (Malinda L...

Usually, when people say someone or something defies logic, they're describing an amazing accomplishment that thrills and amazes all who behold. But there’s another more technical way to parse the phrase. To defy logic can mean to thumb one’s nose at the law of non-contradiction which states that contradictory propositions...

Two Texas Southern University theater legends who exemplify excellence and commitment to their craft are being recognized on April 12 when the first annual Dianne Jemison Pollard Award for Distinguished Achievement in Acting is given to Edwin Lee Gibson. Best known for his work as Ebraheim, one of the cooks...

Arianna Bermudez is expecting her first child on May 8, a wonderfully joyous thing to look forward to. It’s also a bit scary. Every mother-to-be has some level of nervousness around what it means to raise a baby, but as an actor, Bermudez is also experiencing a good dose of...

Devin doesn’t want to be like this, Houston playwright Michael Weems tells us in the program for his new play, End of the World. The “this” he refers to is his main character’s obsessive need to drown out the world the only way that seems to work for her –...