Theatrical Plays

Del Shores' Yellow Takes a Jaundiced View of Family Life at Uptown Players

The Year in Dallas Theater

The Life and Death of Dallas Theater Center's Jack Ruby, All-American Boy

In 1974, DTC premiered its best show ever. Why was it never seen again?

The World Is A Stage, In Spanish

Comedy and the Beast

Earnestly, Speaking, Of Course

Kitchen Dog's Long Way Go Down Too Cinematic For Stage;Jubilee Sails With Gem Of The Ocean

Richardson Theatre Centre And Onstage in Bedford Present More Jewish Comedy Than You Can Shake A Shiksa At

To Hell With The Recession -This Year Gave Dallas Audiences The Best Productions Of The Decade

FIT to Be Seen

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

Feel My Rage

Doug Wright channeled his anger from growing up gay in the Park Cities into bizarre and brilliant plays

Grass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams lights up Fräulein with kooky comedy; Frozen sends chills at T3

Junior Varsity

Student playwrights show their skills

Best Theater Director

René Moreno

Hungarian Rhapsody

The Danube flows in unexpected directions at Kitchen Dog Theater

Some Like It Not

Tony Curtis commits felonious acting at DSM; Plano Rep rips into an old play about jail

Battle of wits

Theatre Three's Major Barbara marches in brisk Shavian step

The purloined plot

Stage West's Rough Crossing is a pleasant journey by a plundering playwright

Beyond help

Theatre Three offers a dysfunctional production of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy

That Gothic thing

11th Street Theatre Project paints two very different family portraits in Southern Rituals

Sad, sad song

Theatre Quorum makes beautiful music in Serenading Louie

Pulling punches

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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