Musicals

Droppin' Mad Beats 'Bout The Founding Fathers

At Plano Children's Theatre, They've Shampooed All the Black Kids out of Hairspray

You need two things when you do the musical Hairspray: a fat girl to play the lead character, Tracy Turnblad, and a bunch of African-American kids to play the African-American kids. There are about a dozen roles for young black performers in this show, plus one for a big black lady who closes out th ... More >>

Gypsy Comes Up Roses

Lyric Stage's production has brassy bawls; lots to see at Uptown Players' Pride Fest.

The Merry Widow Sings

Lyric Stage's production has brassy bawls; lots to see at Uptown Players' Pride Fest.

On Dallas Stages, It's the Season of the Song

Billy Elliot, Next to Normal, Oliver! and Pippin are all big musicals blooming on Dallas stages.

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 >>

You Can Learn a Lot from Bears

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 >>

Tale As Old As Time

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 >>

Spring Awakening Puts Teen Angst to a Driving Rock Beat and Lets It Go Buck Wild.

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 >>

What They Have Made Is Real

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 >>

Bake Me A Face As Fast As You Can

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 >>

Legally Blonde Guilty of Contempt of Audience; FIT Fuels Up Under a Texaco Canopy

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 >>

Oui, Oui le Musical

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 >>

In Living Color

See The Color Purple at Fair Park

Valli High

Flawless Jersey Boys captures an era and captivates the audience; Nine also scores a perfect 10

Songs of the Double-wide

See trailer trash in McKinney

Romance & Cigarettes

See trailer trash in McKinney

Spamalittle

Not exactly Dead Parrot: The Musical, but close; new season lineups promise star turns

Boom Times

Different and wonderful, three small-scale musicals make room for big voices

Sweet Dreams

The Phantom goes Bollywood

Winging It

With candor (and Ebb!) T3 salutes musicals; Angels flutter down at the Bath House

Musical Theater for $800, Alex

With candor (and Ebb!) T3 salutes musicals; Angels flutter down at the Bath House

Frisky Flapper

Millie Charlestons into Richardson

Go With the Flow

Urinetown, the Musical makes a splashy debut; Average Day overcomes unusual night

Wicked Good

Why is this trip to Oz a dream come true? Because, because, because, because...

Fascinatin' Rhythms

Death Trail keeps vaudeville alive at Frank's Place; Ragtime hits the big notes at Lyric Stage in Irving

Sandy and I

Dallas Summer Musicals takes something old and makes it old again

Long Time No See

Wait Until Dark pits a blind girl against three violent cons; Yankee goes south at DSM

Song of the Soused

Tipsy Company arrives at WTT; more hooch might help Violet at Plano Rep

Saigon Smokes

Tragic, so it must be good

Tune Up

TITAS' sweetest thing

Anatomy Lesson

At Kitchen Dog, Hedwig proves size does matter; Flower Drum Song sounds lovely at Fair Park

She's Baaaaaack

Paula Poundstone is an open book

Bats Amore

With Bat Boy: The Musical, Theatre Three finds a star who deserves rabid fans

It's De-Lovely

With Anything Goes, Theatre Arlington makes a Cole Porter musical classic easy to love

Supreme Fare

Talent reigns in Dreamgirls, the '80s pop-opera about hits and heartbreak in Motown

The Freaks Come Out

Life on a Dallas stage in 2002 was cruel, freaky and mostly cruel

A Star Is Björk

The Icelandic pop icon is the best thing in the mostly horrid Dancer in the Dark

The sound of a musical

DTC's South Pacific should be heard and not seen

Blues no more

After waiting and worrying, playwrights finally see opening date for Blind Lemon musical

Tainted love

DTC's powerful How I Learned to Drive offers a crash course in taboo relationships

Work in slow progress

The sounds are great, but the sights are meager in Lyric Stage's Cather County

Unarmed but dangerous

Don't let Deep Ellum Opera Theatre's Pippin mug you

At the crossroads

Jubilee Theatre loiters with style Back on the Corner

Needs a trim

DEOT's three-hour Hair suffers from conditioning

Fractured fairy tales

Theatre Three prances Into the Woods with charm

Billy Bigelow revisited

There's still more to John Raitt than being Bonnie's dad

This charming man

Jubilee's Black Orpheus transcends the musical genre

Reluctant music man

John Jiler hates musicals--that's why he wrote one himself

Events for the week

John Jiler hates musicals--that's why he wrote one himself