Reviews for Gaslight Baker Theatre Performances
Review: Becky's New Car by Gaslight Baker Theatre
by Randi Spears
Published on May 24, 2018
The many laugh-out-loud moments in the GBT's production alternate with “oh no!” exclamations from the audience as suspense builds. It’s a beautiful telling of a modern tale of love with a message: home is indeed where the heart is.
Becky’s New Car at the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart is a beautiful blend of comedy and tragedy. This production takes you gently by the hand and guides you down a winding, heartstring-pulling path of “what ifs.” From the moment the lights come up, Becky Foster invites you to observe her life and hear her story. Throughout it she silently pleads that you not judge her choices too harshly. Becky has hit midlife, burdened …
Review: Incorruptible by Gaslight Baker Theatre
by Kara Bliss McGregor
Published on October 04, 2016
Equal parts satire and soul, INCORRUPTIBLE at the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart will renew your faith in the transformative power of theater. And belly laughs.
Billed as “a dark comedy about the dark ages,” Incorruptible seemed sure to be some amalgam of Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part I and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. But the latest production at the Gaslight-Baker Theater in Lockhart is neither nonsensical nor ominous. This nimble prodution is delightful. And improbable, set far from our modern reality yet landing right where we live. Incorruptible by Michael Hollinger is a bawdy satire …
Review: Talking Pictures by Gaslight Baker Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on September 01, 2015
If Foote can be compared to Chekhov, as director Nina Bryant suggests, then certainly the Gaslight Baker Theatre Company itself can be seen as containing and preserving all the character types and primal memories of a simpler Texas society.
Horton Foote tells quietly intimate stories set in the vast space of memory that is small-town Texas. That stretch of storytelling is nicely captured by the set and the surroundings of the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart. Talking Pictures reveals itself on a set of large plaforms standing in vast empty space, with the proscenium of the theatre-turned-movie-house-returned-to-theatre arching behind the notional outline of a house in east Texas. These stories are like a …
Review: An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf by Gaslight Baker Theatre
by Kara Bliss McGregor
Published on May 11, 2015
The plot is frothy and the characters broadly drawn, a satisfying blend of tragicomedy and slapstick, plus food for thought about life, sex and long goodbyes.
At center, Michael Hollinger’s An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf celebrates the joys of appetite, the mysteries of attraction, and what makes a manly man, with a generous helping of the absurd and homage to Ernest Hemingway. The opening night production at the Gaslight-Baker Theater was a feast, served by a nimble cast under the direction of Robyn Gammill. The story unfolds in 1961 in a Paris restaurant owned by an …
Review: Lend Me A Tenor by Gaslight Baker Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on February 16, 2012
Director Todd Martin sets a fine fast clip to this action and displays a keen understanding for the pictorial impact in farce of clever movement and positioning of his actors.
Ken Ludwig's Lend Me A Tenor is one of those 'sure fire' inventions beloved of theatre companies across the world. Since the 1986 debut in London it has been translated into 16 languages and produced in 25 countries. The Gaslight Baker Theatre is currently staging a vivid and funny production of this farce, a fable of mistaken identities, dizzy romance and worldly sophistication. Aspiring timidity meets bravado, and bigger-than-life Italian passions transform smaller-than-life American provincials. The …
Review: Moonlight and Magnolias by Gaslight Baker Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on February 19, 2010
Gaslight Baker's production was one that had a bit of everything, with something for everyone -- clowning, film buff history, zooming egos and parodies of that beloved-for-all-time American film. Not much room -- or need -- for quiet reflection in this one!
Lots of folks turned out for the last Saturday night performance of Roy Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias by the Gaslight Baker Theatre. Word of mouth had been at work down in Lockhart about this guys' screwball comedy. There is a dame in the cast. Esther Williams has only a few lines in her role as Miss Poppenghul, the earnest and attentive secretary to Hollywood producer David O. Selznick (David Schneider). Most of those are variations on "Yes, Mr. Selnick" …