William Shakespeare

Alas, Poor CAC! I Knew Him...

The Good Doctor

Stage West prescribes The Herbal Bed

Less is Moor

A feeble version of Othello is a red-eyed monstrosity

Mo' better Moor

The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas production of Othello cries out for color

Great Dane

Kitchen Dog carriesonly the essentialson a flight through Hamlet

Avon calling

Romeo & Juliet and Looking for Richard leave audiences Bard silly

Women trouble

11th Street paves a bumpy, bright road for Desdemona

All ends well

The Undermain ricochets through a merry Comedy of Errors

Natural woman

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

Bleached out

Kitchen Dog's scaled-down, gender-bending Tempest suffers from some pale performances

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

As we like it

The buoyant Shakespeare in Love indulges in smart baloney

Curchack's wild oats

The buoyant Shakespeare in Love indulges in smart baloney

Puck this

Shakespeare's Dream finally becomes a wonderful reality

California Gold

The Modern plays host to a King

Be Gay!

The Modern plays host to a King

De Nada

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

Burnin' Down the House

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

Shakespeare in Like

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

Lay On, MacBuff

Theatre Britain strips the Scottish play and its actors down to their bare essentials

Some Pig

Cute hams in DCT's Charlotte's Web; one actor hogs the stage in Shakespeare's Keeper

Chef's Menu

Cute hams in DCT's Charlotte's Web; one actor hogs the stage in Shakespeare's Keeper

Searching for Shylock

Pacino plays Shakespeare's most contentious character in a stirring Merchant of Venice

Dreamy Nights

Life is but a dream with Stage West

High Jinks

Catch some funny Errors at UTD

Rockin', Man

Water Tower offers a holiday creation nuttier than a fruitcake

Will Power

Shakespeare Fest presents a fluffy Shrew; at Fair Park, Beauty woos a hairy Beast

Tec Support

The dynamic duo of storytelling

Let's Squawk About Love

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

Planet of the Apes

The good news is that DCCA's Wall Power transcends the usual monkey business

O, Brother, Wherefore Art Thou?

Tim Blake Nelson's new Othello seems to be a man out of time

Free Will

Teen Shakespeare: It's not just for the movies anymore

Shake-ing it up

William for a new millenium?

As Cliff likes it

Cliff Redd heads up the Shakespeare Festival again, and shakes up the status quo

Bard on

Undermain's Pericles is a prince of a show

Slick Willie

Kitchen Dog's Taming of the Shrew is a sly, stunning, untamed charmer

Renaissance man

Richard III star Ian McKellen may well be the greatest actor you've never heard of

Top 10 Words You'll Never See On City Of Ate

basheertome, via Flickr​Bards and poets from Shakespeare to INXS have pointed out that words, wielded with force and intent, are weapons sharper than thorns on a rose. But what do we know? We prefer watching Shakespeare in movie form (My Own Private Idaho was his best work) and we've never liked I ... More >>

(Soap) Opera, Via Verdi

basheertome, via Flickr​Bards and poets from Shakespeare to INXS have pointed out that words, wielded with force and intent, are weapons sharper than thorns on a rose. But what do we know? We prefer watching Shakespeare in movie form (My Own Private Idaho was his best work) and we've never liked I ... More >>

DTC's Midsummer is a Blackboard Jumble of Fun, But the Wyly Theatre is a Hard Sit

basheertome, via Flickr​Bards and poets from Shakespeare to INXS have pointed out that words, wielded with force and intent, are weapons sharper than thorns on a rose. But what do we know? We prefer watching Shakespeare in movie form (My Own Private Idaho was his best work) and we've never liked I ... More >>

Bill Or Bills?

basheertome, via Flickr​Bards and poets from Shakespeare to INXS have pointed out that words, wielded with force and intent, are weapons sharper than thorns on a rose. But what do we know? We prefer watching Shakespeare in movie form (My Own Private Idaho was his best work) and we've never liked I ... More >>

Dallas Theater Center stages a lavish Henry IV (with a touch of Rufus Wainwright).

basheertome, via Flickr​Bards and poets from Shakespeare to INXS have pointed out that words, wielded with force and intent, are weapons sharper than thorns on a rose. But what do we know? We prefer watching Shakespeare in movie form (My Own Private Idaho was his best work) and we've never liked I ... More >>

De Nada

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

Dog Lays A Mac Down

Shakespeare's classic goes outdoors

All the Way from D.C., Dallas Opera Imports a Force of Will for Production of Romeo & Juliet

Michael Kahn​Dallas Opera's Romeo & Juliet opens tonight at the Winspear. Staging the piece by Charles Gounod (sung in French with English supertitles) is Michael Kahn, the highly respected Shakespeare expert from the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where he's brought the work ... More >>

Matthew Posey's Memphos! has weird tricks up its sleeve; elsewhere, boring old Bard.

Michael Kahn​Dallas Opera's Romeo & Juliet opens tonight at the Winspear. Staging the piece by Charles Gounod (sung in French with English supertitles) is Michael Kahn, the highly respected Shakespeare expert from the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where he's brought the work ... More >>

Wine Me, Dine Me, Stephan Pyles Me

Michael Kahn​Dallas Opera's Romeo & Juliet opens tonight at the Winspear. Staging the piece by Charles Gounod (sung in French with English supertitles) is Michael Kahn, the highly respected Shakespeare expert from the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., where he's brought the work ... More >>

Shakespeare Dallas' Summer of Classics and Ass-Kicking

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

DTC's Tempest Offers Magical Misery Tour

Kitchen Dog's Vibrator Play fails to satisfy.

Prospero Prospers with the DTC

Kitchen Dog's Vibrator Play fails to satisfy.