Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Thomas Jenkins ’

We might think of the Addams Family as, say, creepy and ooky, but the one thing that doesn’t come to mind is syrupy. That quality, I’m afraid, is what sinks the touring production currently at the Majestic, the end result of four years of desperate tinkering, including different versions mounted in Chicago and on...
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Well, The Wicked Stage has fallen woefully behind. Yes, I still have theater reports on Madrid and Los Angeles in my hopper, but I plead (as my friends and colleagues know too well) that I really should be writing my #@$#* book. But as the year winds down, I find that I simply have...
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  Weirdly, I’d never before seen a version of the original Peter Pan before last night’s opening here in San Antonio: yes, I’d witnessed postmodern Peter Pans (such as the American Repertory Theater’s deeply flawed Peter Pan and Wendy) and manic mash-ups (such as Peter and the Starcatcher, currently enjoying a healthy run on...
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Well, the Wicked Stage was perfectly ready to spread some snark after discovering that the first national tour of Catch Me If You Can was—horrors!—non-Equity (that is to say, non-union): that’s the sort of cost-cutting measure usually reserved for a tour that has seen a few go-arounds. But for all of our wickedness—and venom...
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A fine sweep at the Lone Star Awards of the Houston Press Club capped off a successful 2012 awards season for the Current. On Saturday, Staff Writer Michael Barajas (right) was cradling three icy plastic turrets with submerged stars declaring his coverage of mental health and toxicity legacies in the military complex of San...
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So I headed up to Austin to catch Annie Baker’s The Aliens at the Hyde Park Theater, a trip that surprised even me. From the reviews, I figured it’d be the sort of play I normally loathe: heavy on the talk, light on the dramatic action. And indeed, The Aliens turned out to be...
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since I saw the Blue Man Group at the small Charles Playhouse in Boston; my memories are a bit hazy, but I recollect plenty of liquids, regurgitation, percussion, and toilet paper. (I do hope these are memories of the Blue Man Group.) So I...
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The musical Wicked—a revisionist twist on The Wizard of Oz—has returned to San Antonio, and it’s in good shape. Unlike the non-Equity production of Legally Blonde that blew through SA in January (with some scenes played against a backdrop as desolate as Waiting for Godot), Wicked both looks and sounds expensive. (And with some...
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OK, I know this isn’t the Austin “Current,” but, honestly, if you’ve any interest at all in some of the best theater seen in America in the last five years, head up to the capitol this week to catch the rare touring production of BLACK WATCH, Gregory Burke’s astonishing chronicle of the Scottish Guard’s...
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Longtime readers of the Current know that I’m often baffled by the programming choices for theater in San Antonio: it’s as if the city’s artistic directors go out of their way to ignore America’s most talked-about playwrights. (I mean, honestly, how many more revivals of Steel Magnolias can any city require? or even survive?)...
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Tommy Tune, a native of Texas, describes Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance as a product of his later Catskills years, sandwiched between his stints working on Broadway, in Vegas, and in Hollywood. Indeed, Steps in Time, which played a one-night stand at the Majestic on Thursday, has all the...
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