Reviews for Mary Moody Northen Theatre Performances
Review: The Pajama Game by Mary Moody Northen Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on April 20, 2009
Despite the predictable story line and the cardboard-cutout characters, we embrace the star power of this cast. There's plenty of toe-tapping and foolery, and the leads are bursting with talent.
Michael McKelvey and that talented cast at St. Ed's send us whizzing in a happy time machine back to 1954, when the American musical was in its full, ripe heyday. That was the age of Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Dilemma Is Resolved and All Live Happily Ever After. Into that sure-fire mix the producers stirred a crowd of Supporting Hoofers, an Eccentric or two and an Almost Villain; they seasoned it with a …
Review: Cyrano de Bergerac by Mary Moody Northen Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on February 16, 2009
Director Michelle Polgar orchestrates a fine, vigorous production of the wonderfully romantic French drama Cyrano de Bergerac.
Director Michelle Polgar orchestrates a fine, vigorous production of the wonderfully romantic French drama Cyrano de Bergerac, playing through this coming weekend at St Ed's Mary Moody Northen Theatre. Edmond Rostand modeled the lonely, pugnacious cavalier with the big nose on the historical figure of Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a duelist and dramatist who did, in fact, fight in the Thirty Years' War between the French and the Spanish.One of my French professors …
Review: The Three Sisters, Mary Moody Northen Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on November 14, 2008
Sounds like a downer, doesn’t it? But no, it isn’t at all – Chekhov draws each of the characters vividly and director Sheila Gordon keeps her actors bouncing off one another, taking the greatest possible advantage of the remarkable, large “theatre in a square” that is the Mary Moody Northern Theatre
St Edward’s Mary Moody Northern Theatre with its current production of The Three Sisters of Chekhov has again realized a fine synergy by adding two professional actors to an admirable cast of undergraduates.The quality and success of university productions in the Austin area is almost depressing – so much talent and energy! This is a great boon for those of us who take the time to explore it, but it seems strange to have all …
Review: Cloud 9 by Mary Moody Northen Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on September 29, 2008
Cloud plays today as fresh as a daisy, because the attractions and confusions of sex do not date.
You must see this production. It plays only four more times, this coming weekend. Unless you’re uneasy with frank sexual language. Unless you get disoriented by anachronism, gender bending and actors morphing character, sex, time and intention. Unless you are frightened by vulnerability, farce, celebration or intimacy. Unless you prefer to miss breath taking range and versatility in acting by students and professionals alike.“Cloud 9,” the title, is a metaphor for sexual ecstasy. UK playwright …