Subject:

Jerry Russell

  • Culture

    January 12, 2012

    Anne Frank and Baruch de Spinoza: Shut in and Cast Out

    WaterTower and Stage West offer two different takes on power and intolerance.

  • Culture

    September 22, 2011

    DTC's Tempest Offers Magical Misery Tour

    Kitchen Dog's Vibrator Play fails to satisfy.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Go for the Food, Stay for the Play
    At Stage West's Ol' Vic Café

    Photo by Akisha RundquistStage West's Dana Schultes and daughter Matilda running the theater's busy bar​Actors tend to know the ins and outs of food service. Table-waiting pays the bills for many a young thesp until that big break comes along. Edie Falco waited tables at a Manhattan steak join ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 25, 2010

    Stage West's Copenhagen Makes Physics Into Fizzy Drama; CTD Stages A Sassy Sisters Rosensweig

    Photo by Akisha RundquistStage West's Dana Schultes and daughter Matilda running the theater's busy bar​Actors tend to know the ins and outs of food service. Table-waiting pays the bills for many a young thesp until that big break comes along. Edie Falco waited tables at a Manhattan steak join ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 18, 2008

    One Play's Too Long, Another Too Slow. Hey, it's the Holidays.

    Stage West's The Code of the Woosters is a tad long and Pocket Sandwich's Ebenezer Scrooge is dreadfully slow

  • Culture

    October 16, 2008

    Jerry Russell Keeps On Golden Pond From Being its Schmaltzy Self

    Stage West's The Code of the Woosters is a tad long and Pocket Sandwich's Ebenezer Scrooge is dreadfully slow

  • Culture

    August 28, 2008

    Your Show of Shows

    Theater Too stages explosively funny Big Bang; Stage West goes Japanese with a sexy puppet play

  • Culture

    July 3, 2008

    Magnum Farce

    Another Noises Off? Yes, but pants-dropping time at Stage West lacks many of the play's big laughs

  • Culture

    March 27, 2008

    Major Barbara is Worth the Major Commitment

    Blame it on the Movies, not so much

  • Culture

    October 4, 2007

    Nitwit Lit

    Dizzy doings at CTD's Jeeves; then off to a Trailer Park in Addison

  • Culture

    September 20, 2007

    Buckets of Fun

    In T3's Popcorn, salty satire; D-FW critics pepper actors with awards

  • Culture

    April 6, 2006

    No Strings Attached

    Wooden acting all around--and not just in Stage West's brittle Puppet Boy

  • Culture

    November 10, 2005

    Walking on Eggshells

    Humpty Dumpty and Visiting Mr. Green find characters heading for big crack-ups

  • Culture

    February 24, 2005

    Angel Feud

    With heavenly hosts, Marisol and Living End take two different looks at the afterlife

  • Culture

    September 16, 2004

    Smokin'

    DTC kicks it up a notch with Anna in the Tropics; area critics honor the year's best stage work

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2004

    Saigon Smokes

    Tragic, so it must be good

  • Culture

    January 22, 2004

    The Italian Job

    DTC's Accidental Death makes crooked cops funny; at the Bath House, Unseen should remain so

  • Calendar

    August 21, 2003

    Chasing Hughley

    D.L. is still a king of comedy

  • Culture

    September 19, 2002

    Mice Try

    DTC's Of Mice and Men travels at warp speed. What's the rush?

  • Culture

    April 25, 2002

    Moldy Oldies

    Kitchen Dog and DTC trot out a couple of creakies. One's Wild, one's Wilder--but only one's good.

  • Culture

    November 1, 2001

    Stop the Press

    Poor pacing and a puzzling lead wrinkle The Front Page

  • Culture

    July 5, 2001

    Custody Battle

    The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea dines on questions of race, sexuality and desire

  • Culture

    January 25, 2001

    Tale from the Dark Side

    The Weir looks at the relationship between tellers and tales

  • Culture

    December 21, 2000

    Cowgirls in the Bland

    A passel of good intentions makes for a mess of a show

  • Culture

    October 12, 2000

    Applause! Applause!

    Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum pundits pass out plaudits

  • Culture

    August 17, 2000

    Across the Great Divide

    Visiting Mr. Green asks if we can all just get along

  • Culture

    April 20, 2000

    Where are they now?

    Allied Theatre's Man of the Moment dips expertly into two painful pasts

  • Culture

    January 13, 2000

    Smoldering embers

    The reflections of Allied Theatre's Fires in the Mirror are all surface

  • Culture

    June 17, 1999

    Southern cross

    Gothic, God, and the working class meet in Buck-Nekkid

  • Culture

    December 3, 1998

    Barefoot in the manger

    Stage West's The Christmas Mysteries is an ultra-casual romp through the Bible

  • Culture

    August 13, 1998

    De Sade lite

    Stage West presents a lighthearted romp through incest, bestiality, and necrophilia

  • Culture

    August 6, 1998

    Pot party

    Reefer Madness contains some of Pegasus' best ensemble work in ages

  • Culture

    July 2, 1998

    Genocide's children

    Despite great acting and a near-flawless production, Beast on the Moon is pretty toothless

  • Culture

    December 18, 1997

    Channeling the spirit of Christmas

    East meets Stage West in Greetings!, a strangely wrapped holiday comedy

  • Culture

    June 26, 1997

    A three-hour tour, a three-hour tour

    Get stranded with Stage West on Neville's Island

  • Culture

    April 17, 1997

    Playing it for laughs

    Stage West maintains a comic sensibility in Simpatico

  • Culture

    August 1, 1996

    Desperate laughs

    Lips Together, Teeth Apart makes it hard to smile

  • Culture

    June 20, 1996

    Love puzzle

    Premiere of romantic comedy Fat Freddy's Blues disappoints

  • Culture

    May 16, 1996

    Hide and seek

    Stage West's Joe Turner illuminates the ties that bind

  • Culture

    February 15, 1996

    Beating of wings

    Stage West's The Swan lacks the power to get aloft

  • Culture

    December 21, 1995

    Ho, ho, ho

    Stage West's Season's Greetings is a hilariously caustic Christmas card

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