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The year was well-served by actors who could channel spookiness, rebellion, despair, and dance fever

Southwest Theatre's focused cast overcomes the oddities in the script to serve up a snarky, funny look at the theatre business

The title characters in Sarah Daniels' play Gut Girls are brash, foul-mouthed, beer-swilling cockneys, carving their lots from life at the slaughterhouse, and the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production's colorful design work, solid direction, and vivid performances put us inside their greasy, tough world.

With its revival of David Mamet's raunchy, cynical Sexual Perversity in Chicago, the new Flood Theatre Project tries to plunge audiences into skanky Seventies reality, but the fresh-faced troupe only succeeds in skimming its mucky surface.

Meet the tastemakers for this year's competition