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1999 Stories by Jimmy Fowler

• Theater in the ground

  published December 30, 1999

  Here I sit, polishing this year's Jimmy Awards and etching the names of actors, directors, designers, and productions in calligraphic script on... More >>

• Girl power

  published December 23, 1999

  "If God had meant us to think with our wombs, then why did he give us a brain?" You have to chew on that, one of playwright Clare Boothe... More >>

• Porn again

  published December 23, 1999

  The press release for the second production by Impulse Theatre of the Fearless promises the troupe will present a "new form of... More >>

• Out Here

  published December 23, 1999

  Turtle Creek Chorale The Best of Turtle Creek Chorale (TCC... More >>

• Yule love it

  published December 16, 1999

  There is a wonderful collision of the best of theatrical possibilities in Christmas at Ground Zero, especially at this time of year. It... More >>

• Hard candy Christmas

  published December 16, 1999

  Over the last few years, I've seen David Sedaris -- that little smart-ass -- read his work at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Southern Methodist... More >>

• Return this Gift

  published December 9, 1999

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• The Art of the matter ...

  published December 9, 1999

  One of the most impressive things about Art isn't that it won a Tony and an Olivier and an Evening Standard, blah blah blah, but that the... More >>

• A kingdom of sweets

  published December 2, 1999

  My slightly freaked-out attitude toward puppet shows (the more fluid and effective the puppeteers, the bigger the freak-out) is perhaps best... More >>

• The best Bette

  published December 2, 1999

  It's not really unusual for gay men 35 and under never to have owned a single Bette Midler album. All joking aside, she really is a generational... More >>

• Willing and able

  published December 2, 1999

  Being called "brave" all the time must be almost as annoying for a disabled person as living in a world designed for the abled. Sure enough,... More >>

• A wanking good time

  published November 25, 1999

  With all the accolades showered on a young Joe Orton (the very acclaim that, in part, caused lover Kenneth Halliwell's silver hammer to come down... More >>

• Bard on

  published November 18, 1999

  More often than not, I think Harold Bloom's a pompous ass -- except when it comes to his complaints about live Shakespeare, and then, he's spot... More >>

• Atom, smasher

  published November 18, 1999

  There's a turning point when Felicia's Journey becomes a completely different movie from the one you've been watching, and if you're... More >>

• Amazing grace

  published November 11, 1999

  Pegasus Theatre brings us Eric Coble's comedy with a few of the company's patented missteps -- comic styles that jar and occasionally grate... More >>

• Moor's the pity

  published November 11, 1999

  I know I'm not the only critic in Dallas who was startled by the announcement that Kitchen Dog artistic director Dan Day had chosen Chris... More >>

• Fruit medley

  published November 4, 1999

  "I had a very passionate temper," Victorian poet Christina Rossetti once wrote to an intimate about her childhood. "On one occasion, being rebuked... More >>

• Odd bird

  published November 4, 1999

  Ivan Turgenev had paved the way for Anton Chekhov's seething domestic storms in 1850 with his play A Month in the Country, which concerned... More >>

• Real, reel gay

  published November 4, 1999

  Is it possible to be separate and equal? It certainly didn't work out that way for African-Americans, and when applying the questions to lesbians... More >>

• Unmatched set

  published October 28, 1999

  I would have said that the October chill had solidified resolve in the Dallas theater community, but temperatures have reached the upper 80s and... More >>

• And the winners are

  published October 28, 1999

  If you lie down with critics, you get up with fleas, or some such pestilence. So the winners of the 1999 Dallas Theater Critics Forum... More >>

• Wonder woman

  published October 28, 1999

  Fran Lebowitz once observed that if the problem with communism is that it's too boring, then the problem with fascism is that it's too exciting.... More >>

• The play's the thing

  published October 21, 1999

  Gorey Stories, the autumn production of Scott Osborne and Patti Kirkpatrick's Our Endeavors Theater Company, is an exciting... More >>

• Soul for sale

  published October 21, 1999

  And on the subject of turning an unwieldy performance space into a suitable showcase for theater, I have to say that Teatro Dallas artistic... More >>

• Good exorcise

  published October 14, 1999

  If we stage critics think our deadlines are cruel to us, they can be murder to actors -- especially when a preview performance must be reviewed.... More >>