Theater

Dallas Film Society's Art of Film Event Returns to Hall of State, This Time WIth John Lithgow

Might we see Buckaroo Bonzai on the big screen when John Lithgow comes to town next month? Maybe so, maybe so.​Last year's inaugural Art of Film event at the Hall of State was quite the wingding as the great Elvis Mitchell and Robert Duvall informally, thoughtfully and quite giddily chatted about ... More >>

Stages of History

Neil Berg breaks down Broadway

Bearded Lady

See The Goat at Kitchen Dog

Play Time at Dallas Children's Theater

Education and art mix for DCT's growing audience

Bio-Play

Molière gets the silver screen treatment

Festival of Nomads

Homeless theaters prove they're worth watching at this year's FIT

Sweet Revenge

Playwright Tracy Letts gets the last laugh on Dallas

Easy Does It

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

Let's Squawk About Love

Our Endeavors whiffs out with its windy, open-air Two Gentlemen of Verona

Problem Grandchild

Over the River and Through the Woods charms like an Italian crooner

Farewell, Good Night

Preston Lane leaves Dallas with The Night of the Iguana

Theater in the ground

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

Sins of the playwright

Isaac retells an Old Testament tale as a family coming to terms with its dysfunctionality

Six characters find an author

WaterTower's splendid production of Three Days of Rain makes you expect more from this theater company

Pulling punches

Mamet's The Old Neighborhood is full of rage, but never scores a direct hit

Apocalypse right now

There was chaos both on and off the set at Deep Ellum Center for the Arts

They like me! They really like me!

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

Laughing at Lolita

Cry uncle

Collected Works' Vanya dissolves into chaos

Laughing at death

Theatre Three carries the humor on a long road through Mamet, May, and Allen

Anatomy of a slacker

The MAC debuts a charming, overly chatty meditation on the terrors of adulthood

One night stand-off

Lean Theater offers a slight production of a thinly scripted play

Big-top drama

Kitchen Dog doesn't just clown around in their dazzling Glass Menagerie

Of sex and socks

New Theatre Company's hilarious production of Psychopathia Sexualis saves its talky script...almost

High culture in the 'burbs

Although sometimes riveting, The Ladies Room at Mesquite's Theatre Quorum needs a makeover

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?

Echoes from the Holocaust

T3's inspired production offers fresh insight into a timeless tragedy

Bland holiday treat hard to swallow

You might wake up screaming from Theatre Three's Dreams from a Summer House

Wigged out

Elaborate costume changes in DTC's A Cricket Match can't disguise this material

Moliere as mere mortal

Strong comic performances make a lackluster Amphitryon sparkle

A word's worth

Some terrific acting blooms in Pinter's The Hothouse

This little light

A small flame glows in Youth Could Know's Tundra

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.

Top breed

Dog Show has the pedigree of pure Beckett

Placebo prescription

New Theatre Company's Faith Healer is a half-cure for the dramatic itch

Love in the ruins

New Theatre Company puts Don Juan on Trial

Women trouble

11th Street paves a bumpy, bright road for Desdemona

Blood and thunder

Dallas Theater Center's Perestroika is a stormy beauty

Events for the week

Soaring from the sewer

Undermain swoops for delicious comic lows in The Deatherians

Towering achievement

DTC's Three Tall Women measures up

Napoleon complex

Thin Dime's 3 Violent Plays demonstrates the difficulties of the short form

Desperate laughs

Lips Together, Teeth Apart makes it hard to smile

Naughty, naughty

Theatre Three exposes a bit of Durang in Disgraceful Acts

Billy Bigelow revisited

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

Wide wing span

Angels in America author Tony Kushner talks politics

Disarming

DTC's Arms and the Man resurrects the comic genius of George Bernard Shaw

Letters

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