Reviews for Classic Theatre of San Antonio Performances
Review: She Stoops to Conquer by The Classic Theatre of San Antonio
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 28, 2009
Ross and his cast set a fine rhythm to this, assisted by wry asides to the audience and the comic convention of having props proffered promptly over the screen at rear by an unseen hand.
She Stoops to Conquer, approaching its last weekend in San Antonio, is elegant, witty, and stylish. Director Allan S. Ross recreates the conventions of the 18th century English theatre, including the use of a nearly bare stage, a painted partition at the rear, and the actors' respectful but self confident acknowledgment of the ladies and gentlemen of the public.Goldsmith's work is a clever comedy of manners in which the men are all self-important bumblers of …
Review: Uncle Vanya by The Classic Theatre of San Antonio
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 24, 2009
John Minton gives Vanya the boisterous emotions of a delayed adolescent, driven into a froth by the arrival of Yelena.
San Antonio's Classic Theatre has opened its second season with a beautifully designed, perceptive and subtly paced production of one of my favorite works, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.That's the shorthand version of the title. It was published as Uncle Vanya - Scenes from Country Life. Although at the heart of it there sits an eternally frustrated love triangle -- Vanya and Dr. Astrov both yearning for the unhappily married Yelena -- the play contains much, much …