Review: Unbury Your Gays by Broad Theatre, Austin

by Michael Meigs
Published on June 06, 2025

Your BFF may not be one, and Maxine Dillon's piece about growing up, growing away, and coming out reminds us. Unburying doesn't have to be literal.

  BFF.   Best friends forever, right? Think back. Or look around. How often does that cheery acronym come true?   Maxine Dillon's Unbury Your Gays offers a lively series of scenes that turn out to be a meditation on that question. In retrospect -- both the playwright's and my own -- there's a faint, bitterness to what is otherwise an entertaining and often amusing story. That's not the fault of the production, for director Kairos …

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Review: Hungry Teenage Track Stars by Broad Theatre

by Michael Meigs
Published on October 03, 2024

What a vivid portrayal of the the stress of adolescence! Five lively, questioning young women struggle with uncertainty, imposed norms, and their own developing emotional lives.

  Theatre is a gymnasium for empathy, a Facebook meme admonishes us. But it's also a Tardis, a magic space that can take you anywhere, anytime, to anyone. That's how on a Friday night we found ourselves in the aching space of female adolescence.   First sight: two rows of teenage women, squintng at us as if they were ranged on the other side of a two-way mirror. Wordless beneath a roar of pop music, …

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