Richard Hamburger

Mark Hadley, after 10 years as the Dallas Theater Center's managing director, steps into a different stage of his career

Nuts and Merries

Puppets, princesses and drag queens get their fa-la-jollies on in holiday-themed shows

Twisted Sisters

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

Mr. Moriarty Comes to DTC

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

So Ova It

Joe Egg comes up soft-boiled at DTC; white noise mars Caucasian Chalk Circle

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

A Twist of Limeys

Fair ladies and loutish lads put on all sorts of English accents in three spiffing new productions

Make Believe

Fair ladies and loutish lads put on all sorts of English accents in three spiffing new productions

The Italian Job

DTC's Accidental Death makes crooked cops funny; at the Bath House, Unseen should remain so

Non-fat Greek Wedding

Brides run circles around doomed grooms in DTC's rough 'n' tumble Big Love

Moldy Oldies

Kitchen Dog and DTC trot out a couple of creakies. One's Wild, one's Wilder--but only one's good.

Less Is More

A Christmas to Remember is most moving when it’s not trying to be memorable

Banter

Beverly May's day

Scratch that itch

Adrian Hall uses Kitchen Dog and One Flea Spare to soothe that old urge

Me, myself, and why

Fred Curchack, one of America's foremost performance artists, whips up an orgy of self-confrontation with Live Love Acts

Banter

Terry Martin dives into WaterTower

Matrimony unplugged

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

Night & Day

April 9 - 15, 1998

Letters

April 9 - 15, 1998

Waste not, want not

How 500 Inc. could really become leaders in the Dallas performance scene

Events for the week

How 500 Inc. could really become leaders in the Dallas performance scene

The other arena

With major arts players jockeying for position in a new performing arts center, will smaller groups be left out of the Arts District altogether?

Events for the week

With major arts players jockeying for position in a new performing arts center, will smaller groups be left out of the Arts District altogether?

Existential stage left

Theatre Too's No Exit is no torture at all

Necessary angels

Tony Kushner's Angels in America finds meaning in epic suffering

Wide wing span

Angels in America author Tony Kushner talks politics

Revenge of the bourgeoisie

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

Events for the week

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

Prophet with honor

Santos & Santos burns up DTC's stage

Cool Buddha

Playwright Erik Ehn writes between grace and darkness

Vanya for the 21st century

Andre Gregory makes Chekhov beautiful for the big screen

A kinder Christmas Carol

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

Cotton candy

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