Reviews for The Baron's Men Performances
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Review #2 of 2: The Merry Wives of Windsor by The Baron's Men
by Michael Meigs
Published on May 02, 2026
It's all play in this Falstaff's world, and no one's allowed to hold grudges! Now at the Scottish Rite Theatre (with a magical faery forest).
Fat Sir John Falstaff may be the greatest of Shakespeare's creations, in the opinion of the late, also great literary critic Harold Bloom. Bloom wrote in his 2017 book-length essay Falstaff - Give Me Life: Falstaff is the everliving. I wonder that the greatest wit in literature should be chastised for his vices since all of them are perfectly open and cheerfully self-acknowledged. Supreme wit is one of the highest cognitive powers. [. . . …
Review #1 of 2: The Merry Wives of Windsor by The Baron's Men
by Hannah Neuhauser
Published on April 29, 2026
Julia Mella’s uproariously egotistical but endearing Falstaff meets his double match: Renée Osborn and Lindsay Palinsky as Mistresses Page and Ford.
In all of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, someone is being screwed over for their odious stupidity. In the Baron’s Men production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sir John Falstaff (Julio Mella) attempts to seduce both Mistress Page (Renée Osborn) and Mistress Ford (Lindsay Palinsky) with copies of the same rather crude love letter. Of course, when an event such as this occurs, women talk. The wives conduct a series of pranks to teach the drunken …
Review: Much Ado About Nothing by The Baron's Men
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 06, 2025
Nothing daunted, the Baron's Men celebrate a MUCH ADO in fine style and without regret. Witty battles between Beatrice and Benedict promise that all will turn out well in the end.
No signs of woe were evident October 2 at the final production of the Baron's Men in the Elizabethan-style Curtain Theatre, their riverside home. The house was full and so were the benches for groundlings; artistic director Lindsay Palilnsky mixed with visiting high school students, jauntily chaired them in a Benedict vs. Beatrice competition onstage, and welcomed everyone to the company's now familiar semblance of classic dramatic art of the turn of the sixteenth century …
Review: KING LEAR by The Baron's Men, Austin
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 10, 2024
The Baron's Men's KING LEAR, a first, marks their 25th anniversary with eloquence and precision—a beautiful production of an enduring tragedy. They've scaled Everest.
Shakespeare's great tragedy is a fable that dares portray in resounding verse some of mankind's most common but most harrowing issues. The tyranny of the selfish old, set against the arrogance of the selfish young; the toxic dissolution of family ties and family hierarchy; the horror of ageing and senescence; the inevitability of human downfall; ambition, evil, and the sacrifice of innocents. These huge and inescapable issues are rooted in the human condition. We huddle …
Review: Romeo and Juliet by The Baron's Men
by Michael Meigs
Published on April 25, 2024
Bravo to the Baron's Men for their devotion to the craft and art of this ROMEO AND JULIET; may ever more Austinites rally to the Curtain Theatre to applaud their elegant, accurate productions.
Austin’s Shakespeare geeks — and there are some! — have the opportunity this season to enjoy the equivalent of a Romeo and Juliet cage match at the Curtain Theatre, the city’s virtually unknown gem of a venue, a folie commissioned by Richard Garriott on the north bank of the Colorado River twenty-five years ago. Done as a classic Elizabethan-style thrust stage of appromately quarter size, the Curtain is reached via rough, winding roads that descend …
Review: Twelfth Night, or What You Will by The Baron's Men
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 20, 2023
Austin's Baron's Men is a Big Deal, and so is this TWELFTH NIGHT of comedy and courting we won't soon forget.
For those of you who weren't aware of it, the Baron's Men (BM) is a Big Deal and their Twelfth Night, winding up a three-week run at the Elizabeth-style outdoor stage The Curtain Theatre, is an equally big deal. Twenty-four years ago, enthusiasts associated with the video gaming industry grabbed the opportunity to occupy Richard Garriott's folly, a quarter-size replica of a sixteenth-century London theatre on the north bank of the Colorado just west of …