Review: Nunsense by Tex-Arts

by Michael Meigs
Published on October 12, 2009

There's a mischievous joy in this cast, and we share their good time. This production has the Tex-Arts stamp on it, with highly accomplished vocals and lively stepping.

A third production of Nunsense within 13 months! The Georgetown Palace did it in August of last year; Austin's City Theatre put it on this past June; and now Tex-Arts in Lakeway has just finished a three-week run.I almost didn't go, but Taylor T. posted comments on the "upcoming" item on the ALT blog, not once but twice, and told me that there was something extraordinary going on out there. So I found the time …

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Review: Always, Patsy Cline, by Tex-Arts Lakeway

by Michael Meigs
Published on October 11, 2008

Playwright Ted Swindley weaves two very different strands for this presentation. The manic Louise, a clown of little insight, provides the narrative and the jokes. And Patsy sings.

Selena Rosanbalm is a great big bundle of vocal talent.She delivered again and again in the TexArts’ production of Always, Patsy Cline, blending with our memories of Patsy’s joy, melancholy, honky-tonk and hokum from the late 1950s and early 1960s.That was the time when that plucky little singer with the vibrant voice traveled from town to dusty town, earning her coins with a different band every night instead of staying in Nashville and watching the …

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