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• Posted I've Never Been So Happy at the Off Center [Theatre Review] to Austinist
  The Rude Mechanicals’ workshop production of I’ve Never Been So Happy feels like theatre that’s a hundred percent Austin. The work nails its emotions, turning over-the-top character explorations into a Texas Two-step choreography of over-stimulation and joy.
• Posted Review: Ophelia at the Blue Theater to Austinist
  With Tutto Theatre's Ophelia, writer and director Dustin Wills seems intent on adding to the canon rather than simply rewriting it. This new work featuring five Ophelias, Hamlet, and Polonius feels like a classical stage piece.
• Posted Pink Sun at the Vortex to Austinist
  Ethos’ production of Pink Sun at the Vortex, the characters jerk and jolt around the stage simulating eye-gouging and sexing and warring and birthing all while singing the words to some sort of creation myth performance rock opera. And they do it wearing all pink. Melissa Vogt-Patterson has an impressive wail that swirls well with Chad Salvata’s dead pan Ziggy Stardust, and the entire composition sounds like a mix of the Eurythmics’ metallic 1984 soundtrack and Goth night at the Elysium. Guitarist Sergio R. Samayoa offers the show’s strongest moments, picking sparse but full guitar riffs that sound like an underwater score.
• Posted Amadeus at Austin Playhouse to Austinist
  Austin Playhouse has its work cut out for them with their production of Amadeus. Rick Roemer’s Salieri felt not quite ready for the necessary scope of the role, but David Gallagher as the prodigious and maniacally eccentric prodigy melted any distractions with his whirlwind tour de force.