Christopher Soden received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College in 2005. As an undergrad, he avidly studied poetry, film and theatre practice. Venues featuring his prose include: Spout, The Fort Worth Ally and EDGEdallas.
I think it’s safe to say that Harold Pinter is known for flouting convention when it comes to balance and disclosure. He asks that we spend a great deal more time, reading between the lines, focusing on subtext...
Playing at the Rose Room on Cedar Springs is a wonderfully funny, cheerfully goofy spoof on the Blockbuster, Oscar-winning thriller, Silence of the Lambs. Whether you are a devoted fan of the film that made Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins...
The good people at Flower and Bone Productions were gracious enough to invite me to see Lucinda McDermott’s one-woman play, O’Keeffe!, fully cognizant of the fact my review could not appear until after...
Stage homages to the silver screen seem to be in vogue (spoof, replication, source material) but no one seems to have managed it with quite so much panache as Upstart Productions. Billed as “A Silent Film On Stage,&rdquo...
Tracy Letts is a curious playwright and August : Osage County is a strange, oddly satisfying saga. Like a train wreck with punch lines. Perhaps, if we look carefully enough, most families come closer to dysfunctional than idyllic. It’s...
John Michael is performing his one-man show, The A Gays (Stillwater, Oklahoma) at Nouveau 47, an elegant, if diminutive venue, not far from the Music Hall at Fair Park. If the space is small, you couldn&rsquo...
A guy I once knew used to joke that a Democrat is a Republican who’s never been mugged. In other words : Adversity crushes idealism. Job was faithful, chipper and devout until he got stuck in a wager...
You could say Leslie Jordan’s One Man Show : Fruit Fly (Do gay men become their mothers?) is not that different from other one man shows concocted by gay men, and you’d probably be right. No...
Fortune has a lot going for it. Great premise, true story, intriguing characters. Written by Bretton B. Holmes and staged by MBS Productions, Fortune tells the story of Winston and his estranged father, Roger. Jack Brisbois (Mike Hathaway...
The difference between poetry and synopsis is distillation and gloss. Distillation conveys the essence of content without sacrificing lyricism or impact. A gloss gives us the upshot of the material without going into great detail. Kitchen Dog Theater&rsquo...