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Review: LEND ME A TENOR at Bastrop Opera House
From March 28 to April 6, Bastrop Opera House presents LEND ME A TENOR as part of their 2025 season. A farce written by Ken Ludwig, LEND ME A TENOR is set in 1930s Cleveland, revolving around a chaotic evening at the opera. The story begins when world-famous tenor Tito Merelli, set to perform the lead role in Otello, is mistakenly believed to have died after a night of excessive drinking. In a panic, the opera company’s manager, Henry Saunders, enlists his assistant, Max, to impersonate Merelli and take his place on stage.
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Review: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE at Gaslight-Baker Theatre
From March 28 to April 13, Gaslight-Baker Theatre presents ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, sponsored by Doug and Shari Foster, as part of their 2025 season. Written by Joseph Ketterling, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is a dark comedy that centers on Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who discovers that his sweet elderly aunts, Abby and Martha, have been poisoning lonely, kinless men with arsenic-laced elderberry wine as part of their self-discerned and misguided “charity” work.
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Review: THE COVER OF LIFE at City Theatre Austin
City Theatre’s production of The Cover of Life arrives just in time for Women’s History Month. A heartfelt story that lifts the veil on the lives of women whose stories have long gone untold: the wives and mothers who held their homes together during WWII. Worth a trip to the East Side next weekend!
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Review: COMPANY at Roustabout Theatre Company
Sondheim’s Company, a landmark musical theatre for its structural innovation and unflinching gaze into adult relationships, gets a dazzling new revival in Austin. It showcases the depth of talent we host in this city. And as we can’t take the subway there, RUN, don’t walk, to the Dell Performing Arts Center. It is so much fun!