Reviews for Ground Floor Theatre Performances
Review #1 of 2: There and Back by Ground Floor Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 11, 2018
Karina's Dominguez's stamina and subtly modulated performance endow the protagonist with the transcendence required to represent decades and generations of Mexican women whose pure endurance leaves us all in awe.
Raul Garza's new work is a tribute to the courage and resiliency of Mexican women. His story of Gloria, arrived in the United States without papers in the mid-50's, extends to the present day, and it touches upon some of the principal developments in U.S. migration policy. Scenes of prejudice, discrimination and violence are inevitable in those six deades and more, but they're handled deftly and briefly. The story is unexceptional, even ordinary, and given …
Review: Gibberish Mostly by Ground Floor Theatre
by David Glen Robinson
Published on September 24, 2017
GIBBERISH MOSTLY by local playwright Max Langert shows us autism from the inside. The script has an economical sound and feel but leaves the audience weeping through the last half of the 90-minute story.
Gibberish Mostly is a wrenching play by local playwright Max Langert showing us autism from the inside. More than that, it is a gem of a play directed by Lisa Scheps to celebrate the reopening of Ground Floor Theatre (GFT) after 20 months of the City of Austin's blockage for permit violations and interminable waits for new permits. Through it all, the GFT owners, Lisa Scheps and Patti Neff Tiven, have been unwavering in their …
Review: Parade by Ground Floor Theatre
by David Glen Robinson
Published on December 03, 2015
Without elaborated stageplay, the music and storytelling of Parade seem condensed and enriched, adding to the power of a story about prejudice.
Parade by Robert Uhry and Jason Robert Brown is the story of the mob murder of Leo Frank, whose story ignited a powerful movement for justice in the early 20th centuryUnited States and led directly to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. The musical is up for a very short run now at Ground Floor Theatre, 979 Springdale Road in east Austin. It's an impressive work of art and a compelling up-to-the-minute statement on our …