I want to sing praise for two Fort-Worth-based theatrical productions in this blogpost. But first I need to share a bit of context from July theatre-going beyond Texas that will help explain why I’m so proud of our local theatre scene. The Three Little Birds show Jubilee Theatre offered up recently as a multi-generational song-and-story …
Tag: Stage West
Eboni Booth’s “Primary Trust” Celebrates Human Connections: A Grateful Review
Early in the new Stage West production of "Primary Trust," lead character Kenneth addresses the audience, offering up several interrelated observations about what they are about to see. "This is a story of how if you had asked me six months ago if I was lonely, I would have said--." But then, after a brief …
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Constitutionally Focused at Stage West, Fort Worth: Revisiting a Core Document During Election Season
I may not have been a typical audience member when I attended the opening-night performance of Stage West’s What the Constitution Means to Me on October 19. After all, I’m a professor currently teaching a course on citizenship literature. I arrived at the theatre a few days after facilitating a class discussion on John Marshall …
How to Enact Democracy?
JQA at Stage West Deftly Asks This Question about The Past and Today In March of 2019, Aaron Posner directed the first production of his own 90-minute play about John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), the “other” Adams to serve as US President, like his father John Adams for only one term. That premiere at the Arena …
Sarah Ruffing Robbins 