Reviews for Broad Theatre Performances
Review: A Doctor's Visit by Anikka Lekven, Broad Theatre, Austin
by Michael Meigs
Published on November 26, 2025
Broad Theatre's intense examination of accusation, perception, and truth is a deftly indirect warning to watch out when our own inner lights start flickering.
Anikka Leven's A Doctor's Visit leaves you feeling puzzled. What, exactly, happened within all of the encounters whispered about, alleged, listened to, intuited, or rumored? How far can you trust your own perceptions or those of others? What if your own synapses are short circuiting instead or someone—maybe you?—is tipping into paranoia? The structure of the story reflects those uncertainties. Both the opening scene and the final one occur in the examining room of Dr. …
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 Looney cast …
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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, they work …