Reviews for Lighthouse Theatre Performances
Review: Brand by Lighthouse Theatre
by Charles Ney
Published on November 09, 2024
Lighthouse Theatre faced the many challenges of BRAND, Henrik Ibsen's rarely performed first drama. Zach Gamble in the title role and director Chase Wooldridge dug deep, and their work with the capable cast paid off beautifully.
What a pleasure to see a rarely performed Ibsen play fully mounted. In all my theatre travels, I have never encountered Brand, the playwright's first work. So what a treat it was to have the chance to see this piece on stage! As I watched this production unfold, I realized why this piece is so rarely done. The challenges are many. At the core is an icy uncaring protagonist who lives by the motto …
Review: Saint Joan, God's Mouthpiece by Lighthouse Theatre
by Justin M. West
Published on June 03, 2022
This rewrite of GBS's SAINT JOAN is grand in its story but tightly knit in presentation, inspiring without being overly reverent, which keeps it accessible. Humor peppers the updated, provocative script.
I have long known about Lighthouse Theatre, which has a residency at the Crestview Baptist Church in Georgetown, TX. My lack of attendance at any of the company’s performances is probably due in no small part to my own confidence that, upon setting foot in a church, I would immediately burst into flames and ruin whatever production I had come to see on account of being a godless heathen of a frequently outspoken ilk. …
Review: Shadowlands by Lighthouse Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 09, 2019
In this moving story director Chase Wooldridge balances English reserve against American emotiveness, and his cast solidly grips the emotions of the audience. It's an artful telling of a story that resounds still today in our all too secular world.
Of the deep delights of editing this website and reviewing live narrative theatre, the chief are the unexpected, the new, and sheer serendipity. This week I found myself panning one dazzling production and praising another by a playwright essentially unknown in the United States. Those checked the first two boxes. Shadowlands by William Nicholson, done by the relatively young Lighthouse Theatre in Georgetown, put a great big checkmark and exclamation point in the box …