Reviews for City Theatre Company Performances
Review: Abuelita's Christmas Carol by The City Theatre Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on December 15, 2008
Doña Rosita is a nutty, distracted, exuberant woman who hosts a televised cooking show in which she rambles along with remarks about her life and family and rarely gets around actually to demonstrating the promised cooking techniques or recipes.
UPDATE: Alex Garza brings Abuelita back to the City Theatre, December 20-22, 2010 Alex Garza’s photo for this funny, charming tribute might suggest to you a cross-dressing version of elfin Espy Randolph in Zach Theatre’s annual Santaland Diaries. Not so. For Abuelita's Christmas Carol Alex does use a prop or two, including those wonderful fly-away glasses and a Christmas apron, but for almost all of the presentation he dresses as himself.He's a bald-shaven, short, rounded man in an …
Review: Glengarry, Glen Ross
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 05, 2008
Noxious winner Roma and the over-the-hill Levene, seeking a comeback, are Janus faces of the American Salesman.
The title doesn’t tell you what to expect.The grim black and white poster image of bound hands is purely symbolic, because you aren‘t going to see anyone tied up or physically abused in this play.The violence here is verbal and psychic, couched in strong male language common in everyday life but raw and powerful on stage. Mamet gives us a world of men locked in economic competition, where unscrupulous winners get privileges and hard-pressed losers …
Review: Alice in Wonderland, musical by The City Theatre Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 30, 2008
The City Theatre compensates with sight gags, vivid costumes, song, dance and a hilarious klatch of creatures certain to keep everyone entertained
The City Theatre gives us a rollicking musical good time with Alice in Wonderland and at the same time avoids the deadliest sin of adaptations – dumbifying (cf., the discussion between the Gryphon and Alice concerning “uglifying”). Those of us who met our most cherished heroes of childhood not in cartoons but rather in words on the page or in tales read aloud have strong feelings about them. Certain precious books of childhood stand to lose most subtleties …
Review: The Taming of the Shrew by The City Theatre Company
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 02, 2008
If you like Shakespeare, if you enjoy a knockabout farce with personable young actors, if you want to see new opportunities for this promising company, GO. See this show!
This presentation of Taming of the Shrew is a gem.So I was baffled to find that on Friday night this company of a dozen talented and attractive actors was performing before an audience totaling only 16 persons.Why hasn't the word gone out? This is the second weekend of five, and given the quality of the show, the place should be packed. I spent $25 for the "reserved' seats, even though tix are regularly $15 and $20 …