One good rule of theatre: seize comic irony when it falls in your lap. As the audience arrived for the opening night of the Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of Urinetown, the Musical, they had to pass by the theatre’s new…
Review: CBT’s ‘the strangers’
As way of preface, the strangers was commissioned by the Clarence Brown Theatre from playwright Christopher Oscar Peña for performance by eight of the UT Department of Theatre MFA acting candidates. The work was developed over a two year period…
Review – The Desperation of Inaction in Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’
In many ways similar to how “Shakespearean” is an accepted adjective, so is “Chekhovian” in referring to the works of the playwright and short story writer, Anton Chekhov. However, while “Shakespearean” is an expansive reference by virtue of quantity, scale,…
Review: CBT Goes Global in ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
Review of the current Clarence Brown Theatre production of ‘Around the World in 80 Days.’ The work was adapted from the Jules Verne classic novel by Mark Brown.
Review: CBT’s ‘The Busy Body’- Clever, Intelligent, and Entertaining
By 1709, the year that Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body had its premiere and run of 13 performances, the fortunes of Restoration comedy had come, gone, and come again. The audience interest in comedic salaciousness and sexual intrigue that typified the…
Review: Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘Violet’
‘Violet’ — a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley–opens the Clarence Brown Theatre’s 2016-17 season.