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November 28, 2012Wednesday, November 28
The Mason Bar is throwing a little Holiday Open House with complementary "select house cocktails and menu tasting" from 6 to 9 p.m.
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A new weekly music series will be held at Klyde Warren Park, Set List on the Green, featuring local musicians. Check it o ... More >>
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November 22, 2012Blogs
May 10, 2012Dallas City Hall. Enough to drive a sane person crazy on any given day. What is it they don't get -- other than everything?
In today's Dallas Morning News, Paul Dyer, the very decent man who is director of the Park Department, gives an absolutely honest and totally infuriating explanation of the wa ... More >>
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February 15, 2012Connecting some dots in today's newspapers: Apparently the real story in America today is that we despise the poor and consider them to be less than human pieces of shit, while we absolutely worship money and are crack-addicted to personal luxury.
Maybe the day's worst story anywhere in America abo ... More >>
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December 8, 2011A Christmas Carol, Greetings! and Dick Whittington deck the stages.
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October 27, 2011Culture
June 16, 2011Billy Elliot, Next to Normal, Oliver! and Pippin are all big musicals blooming on Dallas stages.
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June 10, 2011No one in Noah and The Whale is actually named Noah, turns out.​Tonight at Dada, the English indie folk outfit known as Noah and the Whale will perform. Good band, interesting name -- especially since, we just realized, there isn't actually a dude named Noah in the group after all. Not even a guy ... More >>
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December 9, 2010Culture
December 10, 2009News
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December 25, 2008The DTC scares the Dickens out of you
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December 18, 2008Stage West's The Code of the Woosters is a tad long and Pocket Sandwich's Ebenezer Scrooge is dreadfully slow
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December 11, 2008Culture
December 4, 2008Little Red Riding Hood and Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity round out the holiday-season stagings
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December 20, 2007Channel Radio City through Bass Hall
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December 20, 2007See a Dickens of a show at Trinity Arts Theater
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December 20, 2007Theaters never sicken of Dickens, so expect season's repeats
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December 6, 2007DTC doesn't Scrooge around with a Dickens classic; WaterTower floods Rockin' Christmas Party with showbiz clichÉs
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November 30, 2006DTC performs annual Tiny Tim rescue; at Theatre Britain, shoe fits, Cinderella acquits
Music
October 19, 2006Wednesday, October 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room
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July 13, 2006News
December 22, 2005No better holiday fun than evicting the poor from their hovels
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December 8, 2005Quad C and DTC do well with cruel Yules; only Poe perks up FIT's variety show
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September 29, 2005Polanski's Oliver Twist misses the grit of Dickens' classic
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March 3, 2005In The Violet Hour, a strange machine prints future best sellers (so where's Harry Potter?)
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December 16, 2004Pocket Sandwich's bah humbug
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December 2, 2004Oh, drear, Dallas Theater Center's annual Carol serves up a Dickens of a downer
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November 25, 2004Jenufa helps women in need
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November 25, 2004The softer side of Dickens' Christmas
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October 14, 2004La Madeleine in NorthPark Center
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June 12, 2003Culture
April 17, 2003Dickens murder mystery satisfies at WaterTower; Fully Committed fizzles at DTC
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April 3, 2003Dickens around at WaterTower
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January 9, 2003Douglas McGrath adapts a classic--almost perfectly
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November 1, 2001The Texas International Fine Art Fair is mature for a 2-year-old
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November 23, 2000A classic tale gets spiced up in the Kitchen
Film
September 2, 1999The Farrelly brothers explore their soft sides by going Outside Providence
Music
August 26, 1999With Mock Tudor, Richard Thompson proves you can go home again
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November 26, 1998November 26 - December 2, 1998
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November 26, 1998Culture
October 29, 1998Abstraction doesn't takethe bite out of thesecreepy machines
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January 29, 1998Great Expectations' beauty is only skin deep
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December 25, 1997DTC hits some flat notes with A Christmas Carol
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December 11, 1997Undermain Theatre's A Por Quinley Christmas is a hilarious rant against commercialism
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January 12, 1995Culture
December 15, 1994DTC's adaptation of Dickens' classic lacks surprise but conjures up that holiday glow
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