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  • Theater Review: FRUTOS DE LA MUERTE (Glass Half Full Theatre / Austin)

    By Leo Emerson | June 5, 2026
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    A TRIP WORTH TAKING A mushroom-fueled journey through family memory finds wisdom in the chaos If there’s ever a time to take mushrooms, it’s when your Tía offers them to you. “I feel like I’m disappearing,” Ixq’anil laments to her aunt, Adela. Worried for her future in America, she watches as I.C.E. and its supporters…

  • Theater Review: MI CASA ES SU TEATRO (Mishpocha Woods Artist Compound in Austin)

    By Leo Emerson | February 14, 2026
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    The success of Hyde Park Theatre’s Mi Casa Es Su Teatro (A dangerously domestic DIY fringe fest) — lies in its ability to showcase the symbiotic relationship between art and community. The works presented this year — ranging from the polished dramaturgy of Bradley Michalakis to the improvisational spirit of Drew and Vivian’s Recommended For…

  • Theater Review: DESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Austin Playhouse West Campus)

    By Leo Emerson | February 4, 2026
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    HISTORY, POWER, AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE Rajiv Joseph’s epic drama offers no comfort—only urgent questions For those seeking entertainment as a refuge from the nightmare of our current political moment, Describe the Night offers no such sanctuary. Spanning ninety years and shifting between 1920, 1937, 1940, 1989, and 2010, playwright Rajiv Joseph traverses Poland,…

  • Theater Review: AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Zach Theater)

    By Leo Emerson | February 1, 2026
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    A FAMOUS TRAIN, A FROZEN LANDSCAPE, AND A CASE OF MURDER: A NIFTY CHRISTIE MYSTERY A stylish, fast-moving production that entertains but skirts Christie’s moral depth Is it an ill omen that my first two reviews for Stage and Cinema concern Hercule Poirot? Have I found my niche as a murder-mystery critic? It’s an intriguing…

  • Theater Review: PERIL IN THE ALPS (Austin Playhouse)

    By Leo Emerson | November 22, 2025
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    POIROT TRIES STANDUP — CAN HE FIND THE LAUGHS? Hercule Poirot, Belgium’s preeminent detective, makes a bold and comic appearance at Austin Playhouse in Steven Dietz’s Peril in the Alps, a follow-up to his Murder on the Links, both theatrical reimaginings drawn loosely from Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie’s 1924 collection of short stories, and the…

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