Dallas Theater Center

Seeing Red

Save Green, See Red

A Royal Lesson

Dallas Theater Center's A Christmas Carol, Still Humbuggin' After All These Years

At Wyly Theatre, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Offers More Head Smacks Than Smackdowns

And not nearly enough flying elbows.

Let’s Get Ready To RU-U-MBLE!

12 for 2012: A Dozen DFW Actors Who Deserve More Stage Time

The list of actors we want to see more of on Dallas/Fort Worth theater stages this year includes a few we've seen a lot of in recent productions -- a lot, as in their frontal and backal parts sans costume. Nudity has become so common among local theater companies, it's no big deal anymore. There a ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center steams up the Wyly with Cabaret

A Giant Announcement: Dallas Theater Center Hopes to Strike Oil During 2011-'12 Season

Elaine LinerDTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty describes what he's looking for in the actress to play the Elizabeth Taylor character in Giant. Dallas Theater Center's artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the company's 53rd season of shows today, and it includes a couple of giant productions ... More >>

Giant News: Singing Jett Rink Getting Closer to Making His Dallas Theater Center Debut

​Back in April we learned that New York's Public Theater and the Dallas Theater Center would team up to present Michael John LaChuisa and Sybille Pearson's potentially very-big-deal musical-theater adaptation of Giant, which, befitting so mammoth a novel, ran around four hours during its '09 debut ... More >>

AT&T PAC's "Giant Transformer," the Wyly, Honored By American Institute of Architects

Flickr user: Jennifer Conley​Two different announcements have landed in the in-box in the last 24 minutes alerting our attention to the fact the American Institute of Architects has given the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre one of its prestigious Honor Awards for Architecture, along with these other ... More >>

My Fair Lady Lifts Lyric Stage To New Heights; DFW Theater Critics (Who Include Elaine) Honor Top Actors And Shows.

Look, In The New York Times, It's Dallas Theater Center's Superman and Ben Fountain on the State of Dallas's High-End Retail

Brandon ThibodeauxMatt Cavenaugh at Superman in the DTC's revisal of the '66 Broadway flop​I'll save the boy's picture of Dallas-done-in-LEGO for tomorrow morning; so too tales of our trip to the crowded-ish Sixth Floor Museum Cafe, which is far more surreal in person than Andrea describes below ... More >>

In The Dallas Theater Center's Super-fun Superman Musical, You Don't Need X-Ray Vision To See Deeper Themes.

It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's the Whole Cast of DTC's Superman Musical!

The Superman Family: Patrick Cassidy on Smallville back in 2003​The Official Press Release isn't due from Dallas Theater Center for about another hour or so, but why wait when Playbill's already got a sneak peek at the cast list for DTC's forthcoming (re)production of It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center Offers Willy Loman at the Low Price of Whatever You Can Pay

Matt NagerJeffrey DeMunn and Sally Nystuen Vahle will star in Dallas Theater Center's presentation of Death of a Salesman, which opens Friday.​Jacob Cigainero, public relations director at the Dallas Theater Center, sends this reminder today: If you're dying to see the great Jeffrey DeMunn as Will ... More >>

Next Season, Dallas Theater Center to Present Its Own "Trinity River Project"

DTC's artistic director Kevin Moriarty, presenting the 2010-2011 season lineup this morning on the Wyly rooftop​Went to the Wyly rooftop this morning for Dallas Theater Center's 2010-2011 season announcement. You'll find the entirety of the lineup after the jump -- though, by way of introduction, ... More >>

A Giant Announcement: Dallas Theater Center, NYC's Public Theater Team Up!

​[Update at 5:10 p.m.: The Dallas Theater Center's Jacob Cigainero sends word that the National Alliance for Musical Theatre press release, mentioned below, is incorrect. He writes, via e-mail, "NAMT included some misinformation in their release by mistake. Dallas Summer Musicals is NOT attached t ... More >>

Does This Man Look Like Superman To You? DTC's Artistic Director Says, "Yes."

Matt Cavenaugh​Up, up and away with some breaking news concerning Dallas Theater Center's forthcoming big-deal redo of It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman: Artistic director Kevin Moriarty has his Man of Steel. We go to the release from the DTC for some info about the Arkansas-born sing ... More >>

Give It Up For Liz Mikel

Courtesy the Dallas Theater CompanyLiz Mikel​Liz Mikel, a member of the Dallas Theater Center's resident ensemble and, from 2006 through '08, a co-star on Friday Night Lights, was among those who lost everything yesterday when the Holly Hills apartment complex near Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hil ... More >>

Stages Of Style

Say Amen.Somebody?

Inspired by Genesis, DTC's In the Beginning makes Eden into a land of confusion

For Starters...

The DTC presents life In the Beginning

Ready, Set ... Improv! Or: Getting the DTC's New Acting Company to Act Up.

How do you freak out a serious stage actor? Ask him or her to do some improv. On video.That's what we did with members of the new Dallas Theater Center resident acting company. After we conducted the serious interviews about being ack-tohrs in big-time regional theater, we made them act on command. ... More >>

Meet Dallas Theater Center's New Resident Ensemble (With Video!)

The next production at the Dallas Theater Center, In the Beginning (opening January 21), also marks the start of a new era for actors at the 50-year-old playhouse. It will be the first production to star all of the members of artistic director Kevin Moriarty's new nine-member resident acting company ... More >>

And This Year's Invisible DFW Theater Critic Forum Awards Go To ...

See Them, Feel Them, Hear Them: DTC's Tommy is Oso Closo to Opening

Dallas Theater Center Finely Combs Through The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

Also, Opal's Husband is a gem

And The Bartender Says...

Twisted Sisters

DTC struggles with Pride and Prejudice; some funny "girls" in Nunsense: A-Men!

Hip, Hip, Euripides

Q&A with DTC's Richard Hamburger

City Slickers

On the Block

These are the people in your neighborhood

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Wallerin' and Hollerin'

Ain't Misbehavin' at DTC; but, oh, they're trying to at Plano Repertory Theatre

Island Fantasy

Dallas Children's Theater plays cat and mouse; Hedwig stays angry two more weeks

Got Blues?

Dallas Theater Center shows its Blues in the Night

Stop the Press

Poor pacing and a puzzling lead wrinkle The Front Page

Fatal Flaw

DTC's Wit is too cheery for its own good

Applause! Applause!

Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum pundits pass out plaudits

Best Production, Best Director

Inexpressible Island, Dallas Theatre Center; Preston Lane, Director

Chill burns

DTC's Inexpressible Island captures the dual terrors of an Antarctic winter and a brave new century

Memories for sale

Getting Scrooged

DTC hits some flat notes with A Christmas Carol

Revenge of the bourgeoisie

DTC's ambitious Sternheim Project roasts the rise of the middle class

Rug rats' guide to Christmas theater

DTC's Dickens delivers, and Dallas Children's Theater's Witch almost soars

Fouled out

DTC's Ohio Tip-Off fails the authenticity test

Lunatic fringe

Melissa Cooper creates the most ambitious Festival of the Unexpected to date

Cotton candy

DTC's 35th anniversary production is fluffy, but good