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Michael Frayn

  • Culture

    January 19, 2012

    Noises Off: The Sound You Hear is Laughter

    Unlike Melancholy Play, where it's crickets chirping.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Sardines! Doors! With Noises Off, Theatre Arlington Makes Slamming Good Comedy

    Most of the laughs from Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off come from action, not dialogue. The play has three acts of nonstop physical comedy including doors slamming, pants falling, and plates of sardines and fire axes juggled among actors with split-second precision. In lesser productions than the g ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    Nothing On In Front, Everything in Back

    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

    July 3, 2008

    Magnum Farce

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

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2007

    Off Stage

    Go behind the scenes in Bedford

  • Culture

    March 8, 2007

    Without a Hitch

    Dyed, fried and double-wide, Trailer Park Musical rolls dirty; Jukebox rocks

  • Culture

    January 18, 2007

    Splitting Herrs

    Michael Frayn's Democracy gets a case of the Willys about Cold War Germany

  • Culture

    November 16, 2006

    Flimflam Ma'am

    The sting's the thing in Stage West's Bees; actor Wold gets elf control at WTT

  • Culture

    May 25, 2006

    Curl Up and Die

    Steel Magnolias: To the salon with the sisterhood of graveling rants

  • Culture

    February 10, 2005

    Mother Love

    Going to St. Ives takes two women on a troubling journey between good and evil

  • Culture

    August 12, 2004

    No People Like Show People

    Anton in Show Business: Everything about it is appealing in a new theater company's debut at DTC

  • Culture

    August 5, 2004

    Porn to Be Mild

    No sex, please, they're skittish at The MAC; comedy galore, mystery a bore in Addison

  • Culture

    March 25, 2004

    Royal Screw-ups

    Theatre Britain and Stage West offer English lessons in silly farce and fierce drama

  • Best of Dallas

    September 25, 2003
  • Culture

    May 22, 2003

    Altar Egos

    In 10:10, four weddings, two funerals add up to one hot new play

  • Culture

    February 6, 2003

    Fission Trip

    In Theatre Three's Copenhagen, passion for science ignites a white-hot war of words

  • Culture

    February 21, 2002

    One, Two, Three, Gag

    Rebound and Gagged chokes on its own familiar, formulaic cuteness

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