Review: Educating Rita by Sidetrack Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on May 12, 2010

Michael Stuart is solid, as ever, a great mass of humanity with an intelligent, doleful look in his eyes and restrained, patient comments for his unexpected pupil. Molly Karrasch, on the other hand, sparkled and was an absolute delight.

Educating RIta slipped through with a low profile during its short run at the Larry L. King stage at Austin Playhouse.  That off-key, self-effacing approach seems typical of big Michael Stuart, the show's director and the male lead in this two-person production.  He did something similar in last summer's theatre off season, sharing the Austin Playhouse stage with Zeb West in David Mamet's A Life In the Theatre.   Stuart can do that because within the season …

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