Célébrez la performance! Entertain, or die. The mutli-faceted, loosely-connected, intellectually-rigorous fare that’s common from the Rude Mechs is again on display in Have You Ever Been Assassinated?. The boisterous-while-intricate, convention-bending staging by director Carlos Treviño coupled with the sharp dialogue and big-ideas-in-small-packages text by playwright Rebecca Beegle is often exceptionally witty and delightfully clever. So clever, in fact, that even though we hardly cared about the characters—a circumstance that’s generally a one-way road to......

What would you find if you went snooping around Carol Keaton Strayhorn's Attic? Pink hair accessories? Broken Records? Divorce papers from Abe Lincoln? Apparently, Rick Perry thinks he's found a filing cabinet full of Strayhorn's tax refund secrets, a mounted large-mouth bass that exposes her flip-flopping, a treasure chest full of her constituent pay-outs. Oh yeah, a few powder kegs stamped "XXX". And even a recipe: 2 ½ cups gross incompetence 3 tbsp unbridled......