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Neil Hamburger

Saturday, January 14, at Texas Theatre

The Star-Cross'd Standard

Saturday, January 14, at Texas Theatre

A Giant Announcement: Dallas Theater Center Hopes to Strike Oil During 2011-'12 Season

Elaine LinerDTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty describes what he's looking for in the actress to play the Elizabeth Taylor character in Giant. Dallas Theater Center's artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the company's 53rd season of shows today, and it includes a couple of giant productions ... More >>

Five Misleading Food Terms

Don't be mistaken, these are fried nards.​I was recently seated at Charlie Palmer near a group of seemingly-sophisticated diners (I was listening in on their conversation about the best way to get to Tanzania until Jon Voight showed up and I refocused my eavesdropping). They were working their ... More >>

Midsummer's In Mid-Fall

Don't be mistaken, these are fried nards.​I was recently seated at Charlie Palmer near a group of seemingly-sophisticated diners (I was listening in on their conversation about the best way to get to Tanzania until Jon Voight showed up and I refocused my eavesdropping). They were working their ... More >>

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 >>

Starhead

Escadrille (The Wow Signal Music Company)

Shakesparody

Escadrille (The Wow Signal Music Company)

Review: Kitchen Dog Theater Puts on a Lean, Mean Richard III

Also: With Snake Eyes, Second Thought rattles the emotions.

Shakespeare’s Tricky Dick Gets Bitten By the Kitchen Dog

Also: With Snake Eyes, Second Thought rattles the emotions.

Mamet Drives Deep Into the Urban Jungle with Edmond

Also: Not much to like in As You Like it

Like It, Or Else

Also: Not much to like in As You Like it

Beat Generation

Also: Not much to like in As You Like it

Theater Critics Camp Diary, Days 3 through 9

Also: Not much to like in As You Like it

Puck Rock

Under the stars, a disco-era Dream; unpleasant peasants mar murky Les Miz

Girls Can Too

Under the stars, a disco-era Dream; unpleasant peasants mar murky Les Miz

Last Stand

Under the stars, a disco-era Dream; unpleasant peasants mar murky Les Miz

Star-Crossed Chops

Celebrate Valentine's Day Romeo and Juliet style

Down in Front

Oh, many '04 stage productions were mighty fine-- but sometimes the audience stole the show

Acting on Assumptions

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead asks a lot, maybe too much, of its audience

Lordy Lordy

Flatley fans can learn the ways of the master

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Wallerin' and Hollerin'

Ain't Misbehavin' at DTC; but, oh, they're trying to at Plano Repertory Theatre

Mo Funny

Plus: Sack of Kittens; A Gay Scam Robs Now

Auntie Mom

Lesson 2: Hamlet dares to prune Danish tragedy

for laughs; Wedding fails to engage

Shake Down

Junior Players presents star-crossed teens in bandanas

Bard to Tears

Shakespeare Fest's Hamlet: There be madness, yet there's sloppy Method acting in't

Border Wars

What's the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex food?

Best Brain Food for Seniors

Richland College's Emeritus Program

Da Bomb!

Plus: Chunks of Hate, Shakespeare Snoots, River Follies

Where Every Man's Gone Before

Captain Picard makes it so-so with King of Texas

Bard Company

Macbeth meets the classic-rock block in Scotland, PA.

All's Well and Ends Swell

There's much to love in Addison's I Hate Hamlet, a comic tribute to Barrymore and the Bard

Custody Battle

The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea dines on questions of race, sexuality and desire

Something Borrowed

In The Pantalone Follies, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Beautiful Music

A Love Song For Miss Lydia has perfect pitch

Tasty Trifle

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

Half-baked Shake

Although inventive, Branagh's Love struggles vainly for harmony

Blink

Shake-ing it up

Bard on

Titus gets a splatter-film makeover in this stylish, garish adaptation

Moor's the pity

Kitchen Dog's Othello isn't black and white or red all over

Rough edges

Although the food is a cut above, Moonshine Cafe needs to sharpen its service

See your world on a small screen at the 11th Annual Dallas Video Festival

Although the food is a cut above, Moonshine Cafe needs to sharpen its service

Subverting the Bard

Lange, Pfeiffer, Leigh topple the patriarchy in a heavy-handed A Thousand Acres

Neither fish nor fowl

Shakespeare Festival of Dallas gets the wrong parts of Macbeth right

Events for the week

Shakespeare Festival of Dallas gets the wrong parts of Macbeth right

'96 rewound

Good, but not that good

Events for the week

Good, but not that good

Events for the week

Good, but not that good

Last laugh

All in the Timing illustrates the demise of sketch comedy