Review: The School for Scandal by The Vortex Repertory Theatre

by Michael Meigs
Published on August 01, 2008

Brenna Pritchard, also a talented song-writer, has an animated valentine-shaped face framed with a flapper’s short bob. Hayley Armstrong, with ingenious expression and mime, slithers herself into an entirely convincing sn

Summer theatre programs for young persons are wonderful. I got my own start treading the boards in just such an enterprise. The Vortex Repertory in east Austin has run its tuition-free program for 13- to 17-year-old actors since 1991. The theatre has racked up awards and the participating students have gotten their own rewards, intrinsic and experiential. For this production of Sheridan’s School for Scandal the company of 14 actors worked with Vortex resident artists …

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