Tag Archives: Daniel Mate

“So A Man Turns Into A Snail…” Quirky New Musical The Trouble With Doug Is No Slug At All

Sometimes theater works even when you can’t quite explain how or why or even quite what you saw. Such is the quirky, thematically fuzzy but thoroughly entertaining new musical at Arts Garage, The Trouble With Doug. The titular trouble is the archetypical twenty-something hero is turning into a slug. Not a slacker. An actual slime-oozing, lettuce-addicted slug

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alix Paige, Barry Tarallo, Clay Cartland, Daniel Mate, Patti Gardner, Paul Reekie, Shane Tanner, The Trouble With Doug, Theatre At Arts Garage | 1 Comment

Arts Garage Hosts Premiere of Daniel Mate’s Affecting “The Longing and the Short Of It”

Daniel Maté holds up a mirror so we can examine ourselves in his new musical The Longing and The Short Of It at the Theatre at Arts Garage. But his vision has such incisive clarity that he is more a chronicler whose work decades hence will enable our descendants to see how we lived in the early part of the 21st Century.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alix Paige, Daniel Mate, Elizabeth Dimon, Henry Gainza, John Herrera, Noah Zachary, Paul Reekie, The Long and the Short Of It, Theatre At Arts Garage | Leave a comment