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Voice of one

A few theater companies cry out in the wilderness of Dallas' stage scene

By Nora Fitzgerald
Jul 13, 1995

I write this, my final column for the Dallas Observer, from an otherwise empty townhouse I have just moved into, somewhere between the Beltway and Virginia's Bible belt. It is the transitory nature of this business that just when you feel confident in your writing gig and your babysitter and...
Will act for food

Theater Critics Forum ponders the year's best performances--and Dallas' diminishing stage scene

By Nora Fitzgerald
Jul 6, 1995

At the recent yearly summit of Dallas' theater critics, a ritual gathering designed to hash out the annual Dallas Theater Critics Forum Awards, the group discussed that there were perhaps 40 to 50 fewer productions this past season than in previous years. No one had an answer for the sad...
Meditation on hope

Dallas' Undermain Theatre flies its production of Sarajevo to a Balkan state

By Nora Fitzgerald
Jun 22, 1995

In a few weeks, Undermain Theatre will fly to Macedonia to perform Sarajevo, a play written by Macedonian native Goran Stefanovsky, at the three-week summer festival there. Ten theaters will perform at the festival, and all of them except the Undermain are Eastern European troupes. The Undermain members have taken...
Picture imperfect

New Theatre's production of The Picture of Dorian Gray suffers from tepid acting

By Nora Fitzgerald
Jun 15, 1995

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde created a wry, entertaining novel that has also become a modern myth: the protagonist Dorian--based on the youthful-looking John Gray, whom Wilde was quietly courting at the time--remained young, seductive, and beautiful as his hidden portrait was transformed into an ugly, wretched,...
Lunatic fringe

Melissa Cooper creates the most ambitious Festival of the Unexpected to date

By Nora Fitzgerald
Jun 8, 1995

Picture it: trendy Manhattan folks sipping cafe latte at the terminally hip Cornelia Street Cafe, while in a corner, Melissa Cooper entertains them with her talents as a ventriloquist. Using a dummy named Jack Wood, Cooper explores the silly and the satirical, from channeling with the dummy to creating little...

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