Professional Theater Companies

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 >>

The Best of Dallas Theater in 2008—and a New Rule for Getting More Butts in the Seats

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

AFI Dallas: Visiting With The Visitor

Q&A: Turtle Creek Chorale's Jonathan Palant

Peace and Justice Share 'Red State Blues'

Mr. Moriarty Comes to DTC

Harmony, At Last, at Turtle Creek Chorale

Re: New, uh, Life in Deep Ellum

Q&A with DTC's Richard Hamburger

Hamburger Done at DTC

No People Like Show People

Anton in Show Business: Everything about it is appealing in a new theater company's debut at DTC

Wallerin' and Hollerin'

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

Dance, Dance, Dance

Robert Altman's love letter to ballet is beautiful but empty

Family Affair

It’s a Menagerie of memories

Pitch a FIT

A dozen troupes act up

Get Out

WaterTower goes loopy

Easy Does It

WaterTower scores a hit with vintage comedy; critics pick season's winners

Best Theater Company

Kitchen Dog Theater

Anti Claus

If your name was Crumpet, you'd be angry, too

Underground Movement

Floyd Collins escapes the traps of its creators

Applause! Applause!

Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum pundits pass out plaudits

Best Theater Classes for Kids

Richardson Centre Theatre's Family Theatre

The great beyond and back again

Two views of The Woman in Black

Pitching another FIT

The great beyond and back again

Banter

Making a "theater town"

String section

Parade leaves an agonized trail of tears in its song-and-dance wake

Banter

Don Juan in Chicago

Theater in the ground

Local stage productions excelled in 1999 -- but where are the crowds?

Art sale

Dallas-area arts groups take a lesson in marketing

Blink

The dealmaker; Hamburger helper

Reel challenge

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

The great bore

Belaboring obvious truths about war at Journey's End

Banter

Finding a Stone Cottage where a WaterTower stands

Banter

Terry Martin dives into WaterTower

Biting the hand

New Theatre's Stonewall Jackson's House is an exhausting, rewarding comic debate

Frothfest

New Theatre Company whips up a slight but tasty 18th-century meringue

Letters

That sinking feeling

The USA Film Festival resembles the highest grossing movie ever. It's been leaking like Titanic for a while, but the 28th Annual schedule suggests it may be going down fast.

Deconstructing Richard

Richard Hamburger transformed the Dallas Theater Center into a regional marvel, but as he faces a million dollar debt and a host of angry critics, is it curtains for his daring vision?

Events for the week

Don't you dare call it the 'Chitlin Circuit'

With their sequined dancers, cardboard characters, and savage beauty-shop banter, Shelly Garrett's comedy plays don't get any respect from critics. But black Dallas knows better.

Buzz

Theater was alive in '95

Last year's offerings brightened local stage

Fouled out

DTC's Ohio Tip-Off fails the authenticity test

Will act for food

Theater Critics Forum ponders the year's best performances--and Dallas' diminishing stage scene

Weird beards

A Family Affair rolls with laughter at the expense of a vile Russian family

Reeling

An ugly fight over the selection of an artistic director throws the USA Film Festival into disarray

A kinder Christmas Carol

DTC's adaptation of Dickens' classic lacks surprise but conjures up that holiday glow