Richard Hamburger

A Blatant Diss|Don't Get Fooled Again

Enter Stage Right

With the curtain falling on its old playhouse,Dallas Theater Center gets its act together with a new leader

Tiny Tim Time

DTC doesn't Scrooge around with a Dickens classic; WaterTower floods Rockin' Christmas Party with showbiz clichÉs

Hip, Hip, Euripides

DTC doesn't Scrooge around with a Dickens classic; WaterTower floods Rockin' Christmas Party with showbiz clichÉs

Spamalittle

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

Dallas Theater Center Will Name a New Artistic Director On Wednesday

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

Shrew-ed Criticism

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

Cat and Souse

Maggie and Brick try to pull a big one over on Big Daddy at DTC

Q&A with DTC's Richard Hamburger

Maggie and Brick try to pull a big one over on Big Daddy at DTC

Hamburger Done at DTC

Maggie and Brick try to pull a big one over on Big Daddy at DTC

Unhinged

DTC's Illusion plays ugly tricks; Communicating Doors plays with time

Drama, Just Hatched

DTC's Illusion plays ugly tricks; Communicating Doors plays with time

Smokin'

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

Rag 'Em Up

Ain't missin' this

Best Actor

Regan Adair

Island Fantasy

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

Hamlet Maneuver

Local stages choked with Shakespeare; critics honor the year's best theater work

Mice Try

DTC's Of Mice and Men travels at warp speed. What's the rush?

Stop the Press

Poor pacing and a puzzling lead wrinkle The Front Page

Tasty Trifle

The confusion in DTC's Twelfth Night is pleasant but familiar

Farewell, Good Night

Preston Lane leaves Dallas with The Night of the Iguana

Blinded Me With Science

DTC's Air Pump extracts laughter--and tragedy--from the human genome project

Applause! Applause!

Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum pundits pass out plaudits

Wide awake

DTC keeps your eyes open throughout the jarring Dreamlandia

Muy moderno

Working-class Hispanics and opinionated vaginas mark this year's Festival of the Unexpected

Tuned Out

DTC's production of the venerable Guys and Dolls hits some flat notes

Blink

The dealmaker; Hamburger helper

Odd bird

The DTC never reaches full flight in Chekhov's The Seagull

And the winners are

Dallas theater critics spread their disease

The sound of a musical

DTC's South Pacific should be heard and not seen

They like me! They really like me!

With the Leon Rabin Awards, Dallas toasts its theater artists without really benefiting them

Manic Molire

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

Apple sauce

Adam and Eve show a lot of cheek in 11th Street's Arthur Miller revival

Are we there yet?

DTC takes a reverent, rambling Long Day's Journey Into Night

Letters

DTC takes a reverent, rambling Long Day's Journey Into Night

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?

And the winners are

Presenting the 1997 Jimmys--like the Tony, but without the boring awards show

Guts and glory

Dallas Theater Center's Billy the Kid is bloody great

Natural woman

DTC's All's Well is an epic journey of the heart

Blood and thunder

Dallas Theater Center's Perestroika is a stormy beauty

Boo, hiss

Pocket Sandwich Theatre's latest audience-participation epic evokes tired jeers

Theater was alive in '95

Last year's offerings brightened local stage

Class act

Dallas Theater Center snags four Leon Rabin Awards in inaugural contest

Three-ring theater

It's worth running away to join DTC's Invisible Circus

Voice of one

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

Will act for food

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

Lunatic fringe

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

Under the American dream

Texas playwright Octavio Solis brings muscle to DTC's season

Events for the week

Texas playwright Octavio Solis brings muscle to DTC's season

Reluctant music man

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