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Events for the week

Beginner's luck

Erik Ehn's new work succeeds, but it requires a leap of faith

Meditation on hope

Dallas' Undermain Theatre flies its production of Sarajevo to a Balkan state

Will act for food

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

Voice of one

A few theater companies cry out in the wilderness of Dallas' stage scene

Class act

Dallas Theater Center snags four Leon Rabin Awards in inaugural contest

Rug rats' guide to Christmas theater

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

Street of dreams

Undermain Theatre journeys to Camino Real, a place you can visit, but never leave

Events for the week

Undermain Theatre journeys to Camino Real, a place you can visit, but never leave

Soaring from the sewer

Undermain swoops for delicious comic lows in The Deatherians

Triumphant trio

Three stellar Dallas talents collaborate for DTC

Events for the week

Three stellar Dallas talents collaborate for DTC

Events for the week

Three stellar Dallas talents collaborate for DTC

All ends well

The Undermain ricochets through a merry Comedy of Errors

Events for the week

The Undermain ricochets through a merry Comedy of Errors

Neither fish nor fowl

Shakespeare Festival of Dallas gets the wrong parts of Macbeth right

Blood wedding

The Lorca Project is a union of experimentalists

Events for the week

The Lorca Project is a union of experimentalists

Events for the week

The Lorca Project is a union of experimentalists

Getting Scrooged

DTC hits some flat notes with A Christmas Carol

Cry uncle!

Dislikable duo undermines Undermain production

Events for the week

Dislikable duo undermines Undermain production

Genocide's children

Despite great acting and a near-flawless production, Beast on the Moon is pretty toothless

Matrimony unplugged

Stellar acting and a strident script give new life to old material in Once in Doubt

Manic Molire

Richard Hamburger does a Chuck Jones take on a 17th-century French master

Holiday whores

Dallas Children's Theater and the Undermain milk their Christmas cash cows

Night & Day

March 25 - 31, 1999

Night & Day

April 15-21, 1999

And the winners are

Dallas theater critics spread their disease

Cold Hands, Warm Hearts in Almost, Maine

Also: Young lovers bore in Kitchen Dog's Trestle

De Nada

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

Wilde Party

Oscar goes to DTC for classic British comedy in The Importance of Being Earnest

Best Developing Entertainment District

Lamar Street

Smokin'

DTC kicks it up a notch with Anna in the Tropics; area critics honor the year's best stage work

Party Bard-y

Shakespeare's greatest guffaws and ha-has

Saigon Smokes

Tragic, so it must be good

Double-wide Indemnity

Killer Joe hits the target at The MAC; nicely furnished Doll's House at SMU

Bard to Tears

Shakespeare Fest's Hamlet: There be madness, yet there's sloppy Method acting in't

Hair Trigger

A strong, solitary voice needs accompaniment in An Almost Holy Picture

It Takes Two

Kitchen Dog's Kiss of the Spider Woman leaps over the pitfalls of collaboration

Labor party

Kitchen Dog takes us down a long but scenic Road

Bright light

Undermain turns the world premiere of Shiner into a beacon of Dallas talent

Banter

Undermain turns the world premiere of Shiner into a beacon of Dallas talent

Curiouser and curiouser

Two acts may be one Tale too many in DTC's Alice

Sweet stench

Fumes from Undermain's haunting Thrse Raquin will get you high

De Nada

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

Shakespeare Dallas' Summer of Classics and Ass-Kicking

Cyrano goes long while As You Like It goes rock hard.

Cooked Dane

Shakespeare Dallas' Hamlet boils over; Hair offers a brush with the '60s.