Reviews for Jarrott Productions Performances
Review #2 of 2: Bisexual Sadness by Jarrott Productions
by Michael Meigs
Published on November 11, 2026
Not "bisexual sadness," really, but "anticipatory regret." Kelsey Mazak delivers a difficult character in a difficult script. A comedy, until it's not..
Yes, time passes and we move on. Even theatre time. I first saw Kelsey Mazak in this same space in 2015, where she played Emily the earnest, excited ingénue in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Unlike so many young actors, she hasn't moved away or flickered out of sight. Kelsey has regularly appeared on Austin stages. Here she is, once again with Jarrott Productions, this time portraying an earnest, anxious young woman of her own age, …
Review#1 of 2: Bisexual Sadness by Jarrott Productions
by David Glen Robinson
Published on November 07, 2026
A very contemporary comedy of a woman's conflicting sexual attractions and others' life choices, BISEXUAL SADNESS rises to a plateau of unresolved possibilities. Call it a comdrama and appreciate the characters.
Bisexual Sadness by upcoming playwright India Kotis has opened at Trinity Street Playhouse in downtown Austin, the second-ever production of anew work which may have a bright future. Surely, Jarrott Productions' staging will assist its launch. A one-act about 90 minutes long, Bisexual Sadness is loaded with content about sexuality in its many refractions. Opening night attracted a full house fascinated with the topic. It's a comdrama, a comedy that becomes a drama, in contrast …
Review #2 of 2: Destination by Jarrott Productions
by Michael Meigs
Published on May 21, 2026
A small play with destinations that are psychological. A father and a daughter work to balance duty with their deepest emotions.
George Ayres' Destination, a small play, fits nicely into the Trinity Street Players' fourth-floor black box theatre downtown at First Austin. On opening night, downstairs there was a bustling fest of LGBQT organizations on the plaza and in the lobby; upstairs, the sense was equally positive but more reflective, for Howard, the focus of the story, is very much at the end of a long lifespan. Destination examines nostalgia, regret, and the tension between duty …
Review #1 of 2: destination by Jarrott Productions
by David Glen Robinson
Published on May 21, 2026
Haiku verses mark plot turns as characters face decisions that set down footprints in the sands of their times. Regret can eat you alive, but in this work it does not.
Agéd love comes out Whiskey from the cabinet Downtown lights whisper. Events, things, even plays may touch our lives and send them right along down new ways. Those epiphanies are more striking because they occur unexpectedly. The impact is most astounding when the stimulus evokes a look at one’s life, not forward, but behind. Look over your shoulder—what shapes of footprints are you laying down behind as you tread these sands of time? destination, the …
Review #2 of 2: Mirror Lake by Jarrott Productions
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 21, 2025
Savor your shivers, admire this handsome couple, wish them the best; Mirror Lake offers them opportunity but also the perils of the best of intentions.
It's spooky scary season, y'all. Jarrott Productions chose Steven Dietz's two-hander Mirror Lake to fit the season. Director Caroline Cearley makes the most of the intimate space at the Trinity Street Players' space in central Austin, and MacKenzie Mulligan's lighting is appropriately dark and suddenly spotted with reveals. It's a tale of a couple married now for ten years who have the custom of trying to scare one another witless on their anniversary. They travel …
Review #1 of 2: MIRROR LAKE by Steven Dietz, Jarrott Productions
by David Glen Robinson
Published on October 21, 2025
This suspense thriller with inflections of horror features brilliant dialogists and movers, Juliet Robb especially.
Fear of the dark. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what’s outside. Fear of hunters. Fear of confinement. Fear of what’s in the box. Fear of your spouse. Fear of the fog. Fear of dark, murky waters . . . .These fears may seem archetypal, but they are only the playing pieces of the marital game Philip and Dinah play on their wedding anniversary every year, ten so far. Jarrott Productions has premiered Mirror Lake, …