When Ochre House founder Matthew Posey gets his teeth into something, he takes big bites. For his latest play, Cicerone, he's masticating his way through the life and loves of Tropic of Cancer author ...
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At Fort Worth's Stage West, Texas' brashest political commentator lives again in the one-woman play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Actress Georgia Clinton portrays Ivins in the prod...
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Dallas writer Vicki Cheatwood's new play Ruth is a modern retelling of the Ruth and Naomi story from the Old Testament. What Cheatwood went through personally while writing it, however, sounds more li...
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Join the swarm at the regional premiere of the kids' musical comedy Diary of a Worm, a Spider & a Fly, now onstage at Dallas Children's Theater. They do things big at DCT, but this may be their bigges...
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The whiff of menace enters the room right at the top of The Birthday Party, the 1958 Harold Pinter dark comedy now on view at Deep Ellum's Undermain Theatre. An older couple, Petey and Meg (T.A. Taylo...
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Dennis Miller, comedian, talk show host, rant artist, Bill O'Reilly acolyte and Bill Maher mirror-opposite, returns to Bass Performance Hall for a concert at 8 p.m., Friday, June 8. Tickets are on sal...
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Matt Lyle's new play The Better Doctor has a lot to say about the American healthcare industry. But it says it without talking. As the latest in Lyle's series of "silent films for the stage," Doctor k...
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For filthy fun, get your merkin to Jamie Morris' Silence of the Clams. Uptown Players is doing the outrageous drag spoof of the movie thriller about the cross-dressing serial killer and the butch FBI ...
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Young playwrights play the old shell game with their work these days. They write a TV sitcom pilot or a screenplay but try to pass it off as a piece for the stage. It's easier to get plays done and th...
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Next Fall, the Geoffrey Nauffts play now running at Dallas Theater Center, presents a family acting out more issues than an episode of Dr. Phil. Mom and Dad (played by Kieran Connolly and Candy Buckle...
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As Joni Mitchell sings it, "sometimes you don't know what you've got till it's gone." That's sort of the story of what happened to the play Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home, written by Texas actress an...
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A new musical with a book by Joe DiPietro opened this week on Broadway. It's called Nice Work If You Can Get It and it stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara singing Flapper Era songs by George and ...
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With its second festival of new plays starting Thursday, Nouveau 47 can now call it an "annual" event. The theater company in Margo Jones' old space at the Magnolia Lounge, Fair Park, regards their ou...
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ATTPAC is packing the spring and summer show skedge with enormo productions and gigundo names. Love the guys on Modern Familyr Got 'em. Craving some Gipsy Kingsr Coming. Jersey Boysr Oh, baby (in fou...
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The incident at the heart of the fact-based Erik Ehn play Diamond Dick: The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 is as trivial as, say, a teenager walking home from a corner store with some Skittles in his hand. ...
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There may not be another 3-1/2-hour play that says as much about contemporary family life, and says it with such gritty realism, as Tracy Letts' explosive, hilarious August: Osage County. Director Ren...
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George Hamilton is in town. You can tell the actor is somewhere near the Fair Park area by the faint orangey glow emanating from the stage at the Music Hall, where Hamilton is appearing in the touring...
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Actors Jenny Ledel and Cameron Cobb have experience with ghosts. In last summer's Hamlet at Shakespeare Dallas, they played Ophelia and the moody Dane in an especially dark take on the Bard's dance wi...
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A businessman and a bishop used Cowboys' Hall of Famer Deion Sanders' name to drum up interest in a charter school. Then they tried to score from the deal.
A businessman and a bishop used Cowboys' Hall of Famer Deion Sanders' name to drum up interest in a charter school. Then they tried to score from the deal.
A businessman and a bishop used Cowboys' Hall of Famer Deion Sanders' name to drum up interest in a charter school. Then they tried to score from the deal.
