Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Frontiers’ are very appealing
| |Friday, May. 10, 2013
If variety is the spice of life, then the Fort Worth Opera’s “Frontiers” is a well-seasoned dish. For the second day in a row, the company presented four new works Friday afternoon, and once again each was quite unlike the others.Read more
Theater review: 'Steve Jobs' at Amphibian
| |Friday, Apr. 26, 2013
Amphibian Stage Productions' decision to stage Mike Daisey's monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is probably the boldest programming choice of any area theater this year. It would have been a natural for Amphibian's two-performance reading series, as the 85-minute production is essentially one man sitting at a table and talking to the audience, the only props being a MacBook and an ice-free glass of water.Read more
New York-based director returns to Fort Worth for 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs'
| |Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2013
In the early 2000s, it was clear that there were two new things worth watching on the Fort Worth theater scene. One was the ambitious Amphibian Stage Productions, which sprang from a group of Texas Christian University students. And then there was another product of TCU, director Jaime Castañeda, who had worked with Amphibian and founded his own company, FireStarter Productions.Read more
