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Jessica Goldman

Jessica Goldman was the theater critic for CBC Radio in Calgary prior to joining the Houston Press team. Her work has also appeared in American Theatre Magazine, Globe and Mail and Alberta Views. Jessica is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association.

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Capsule Stage Reviews: April 16, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Apr 16, 2015

The Cherry Orchard Recently Houston's theater scene has been blessed with some very fine Chekhov knockoffs: last season's superlative rendition of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Alley; and, recently, a regional premiere, also superlatively produced, of Aaron Posner's stupid f*****g bird from Stages Rep...
Capsule Stage Reviews: March 5, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Mar 3, 2015

The Blackest Shore Catastrophic Theatre brings the work of New York-based up-and-coming playwright Mark Schultz to us twice this season. Closing out the year is Schultz's play Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy, a show about teen girl anguish. On offer now is the premiere...
Capsule Stage Reviews: February 26, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Feb 24, 2015

The Blackest Shore Catastrophic Theatre brings the work of New York-based up-and-coming playwright Mark Schulz to us twice this season. Closing out the year is Schultz's play Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy, a show about teen girl anguish. On offer now is the premiere...
Capsule Stage Reviews: February 19, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Feb 12, 2015

The Blackest Shore Catastrophic Theatre brings the work of New York-based up-and-coming playwright Mark Schulz to us twice this season. Closing out the year is Schultz's play Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy, a show about teen girl anguish. On offer now is the premiere...
Capsule Stage Reviews: February 12, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Feb 10, 2015

Character Man Jim Brochu's one-man musical tribute to those unsung supporting players of Broadway's golden age radiates such a warm autumnal glow, you want to rush right out and buy every original Broadway cast album of the shows Brochu so lovingly remembers. (If you're already a Broadway baby, you have...
Capsule Stage Reviews: February 5, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Feb 3, 2015

La Clemenza di Tito Mozart's penultimate opera is music fit for a king, certainly appropriate since it was commissioned to celebrate the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II's coronation as King of Bohemia in September 1791. The celebrations were hastily planned, leaving only about two months to ready Prague for the...
Capsule Stage Reviews: January 29, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Jan 27, 2015

Madame Butterfly The girl in the chrysanthemum kimono never stays too far away too long. Depicted through Puccini's most rhapsodic melodies that use a subtle pentatonic framework for its swirling overlay of Japanesque atmosphere, this universally beloved opera is continually on the annual top-ten list of most performed operas. Written...
Capsule Stage Reviews: January 22, 2015

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Jan 20, 2015

Frost/Nixon There's an emotion rushing through Company OnStage's bumpy production of Peter Morgan's quasi-historical Frost/Nixon that is, if not unintentional, quite unexpected — sympathy for Richard Milhous Nixon, our disgraced, Machiavellian 37th President. High crimes and misdemeanors, including burglary, hush money for witnesses, suborning perjury, willfully disregarding subpoenas, wiretapping the...
Capsule Stage Reviews: January 15, 2015

By Jessica Goldman
Jan 12, 2015

My Name Is Asher Lev In his 1972 semiautobiographical novel, My Name Is Asher Lev, American author, artist and rabbi Chaim Potok tells the tale of a Hassidic Jewish boy whose love of drawing comes into sharp conflict with his ultrareligious family and community. In adapting it for the stage...
Capsule Stage Reviews: November 20, 2014

By Jessica Goldman, D. L. Groover and JIM J.TOMMANEY
Nov 18, 2014

Hänsel und Gretel When Opera in the Heights announced it would perform Englebert Humperdinck's gargantuan fairy tale — gargantuan in the size of its orchestra — I immediately thought, what a boneheaded mistake, this'll never work. This late Romantic behemoth (1893), progeny of Wagner and stepchild of soon-to-be Richard Strauss,...
Capsule Stage Reviews: October 9, 2014

By Jessica Goldman and D. L. Groover
Oct 9, 2014

Detroit By the end of Lisa D'Amour's provocative, spiky, prize-winning Detroit, suburban middle-class couple Mary and Ben (Mischa Hutchings and Jeff Miller) face their own apocalypse. All they have left among the burned-out ruins of their American Dream is each other. It's not a rosy picture. How they got here...

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