Gallery Bite: Jessica Kostelnick’s Living Hand To Mouth Installation At The Tan Jessica Kostelnick’s Installation Plays House At The Tan A clay-and-fabric mongoloid creature that looks part lobster and part human lies sprawled across the floor like a fish out of water, gasping [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Vortex Cures A Case Of Bipolar Shakespeare In The Winter’s Tale Vortex Cures A Case Of Bipolar Shakespeare “Will,” I’d say, if I’d been in a playwriting class with Shakespeare in the early 1600s. “I like this new play, The Winter’s [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Alt’s Lusty Teen Musical Is Uncoordinated Yet Awesome—Kinda Like Your First Time Alt’s Lusty Teen Musical Is Uncoordinated Yet Awesome—Kinda Like Your First Time Consider yourself warned: Spring Awakening is a weird show. Take a late-19 th century German play about school children. Adapt it as a [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More Some 19 th century teens express their sexual longing through dreamy gazes ... (Cassidy Knight)
Performance Review: Desert Rose’s Durang Series Struggles To Pin Down A Prickly Playwright Desert Rose’s Durang Series Struggles To Pin Down A Prickly Playwright There are certain playwrights whose brilliance is transcendent. When it comes to staging one of their plays, the selection, venue or even language [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 19, 2012 Read More
Theater News: Southwest Rural Theatre Project Ain’t Afraid Of Small-Town Drama Southwest Rural Theatre Project Ain’t Afraid Of Small-Town Drama When Leslie Joy Coleman was an undergrad at New Mexico Highlands University, she had an experience that forever changed her understanding of theatergoing. [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Landmark Musicals Animates Independence Day With Song And Dance In 1776 Landmark Musicals Animates Independence Day With Song And Dance It takes a special kind of nerd to appreciate the joy that is 1776. One must be equal parts musical-theater geek, history buff [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More John Adams (Shawn Wayne King), Thomas Jefferson (David Aubrey) and Benjamin Franklin (Michael Finnegan) (Photo by Max Woltman)
Performance Review: Río De Lágrimas Links Imperialism, La Llorona And Juárez Slayings Río De Lágrimas Links Imperialism, La Llorona And Juárez Slayings For 20 years, the stories of women and girls killed in Ciudad Juárez have been silenced in their own country and largely ignored [...] Leigh Hile \ Jun 28, 2012 Read More