Review: Overheard on a Train by Cheerful Secrets

by Michael Meigs
Published on May 14, 2026

Who doesn't like a train ride? Even better—one with an entertaining story attached, in which you have your own lines to read.

  "Cheerful Secrets," the name of Rebecca Maag's enterprise, captures precisely both her intent and her approach. Her clever projects invite participation, and audiences are gently guided into the happy, amusing revelation of situations and a story. In her latest, Overheard on a Train, she conducts you and your three friends aboard Austin CapMetro's Red Line train at its downtown station on 4th Street. Literally, in this charmingly intimate theatre world, for she is dressed as …

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