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Cat McCarrey, and I’m a Tuna virgin. My lack of experience with the fictional “third smallest town in Texas” could be generational or regional. Either way, the four-play sagas of that tiny town, written in the Eighties and Nineties by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, were complete unknowns until my Ground Floor Theatre’s annual Christmas counter-programming kicks off December with an impeccable downer.
The show may be called Parade, but the only thing marching before you is a cavalcade of horrors. It presents the true story of Leo Frank , a Jewish man falsely accused of murdering 13 year-old Mary Phagan in I grew up down the street from a local community theatre. I never did as many productions as I wanted to – there’s a reason I write about theatre instead – but the atmosphere of the building is ingrained in my mind. I can close my eyes and summon the shadows of the backstage wings, One thing you’ll always be able to say about Walking Shadow Shakespeare: They positively reverberate the joy of the Bard. In their current show, a wildly economical mash-up of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra that combines both plays into a tidy two-and-a-half-hour runtime, editor and director Steph Crugnola shares her pure love for these Author Travis Baldree’s coming back to Texas, and he’s bringing the latest installment of his bestselling cozy fantasy series with him. After enchanting crowds with 2022 debut novel Legends & Lattes and its 2023 sequel, Bookshops & Bonedust, the former Texan/current PNW-er became synonymous with this specific fantasy subgenre – the poster child for creating Texas is big sky country. It’s the first thing I reveled in after fleeing from the Pacific Northwest’s oppressive cloud coverage. Driving into town, gazing at the sunset’s deep purples and oranges in the rearview mirror. Walking in the red-streaked dawn, or tracking storms that actually move across blue skies. Even now, I thrill at I first reviewed the Baron’s Men a year ago, delighting in their Romeo and Juliet. The play was great! But I was deeply, irrevocably smitten with the venue. The Curtain Theatre, a space dedicated to Elizabethan and Jacobean performance art, stole my heart. It’s not a period-perfect re-creation of the Globe, but it came close Summer and Smoke, Filigree Theatre’s season seven opener, has all of Tennessee Williams’ greatest hits: religious angst, sexual angst, and heavy doses of angsty angst, all set against a sweltering summer setting. It’s an interesting production choice for the onset of fall. But just like the cool evenings or rain showers that offer relief as
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