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By Elaine Liner
Turns out Green Day and Molly Ivins had a lot in common. The musical American Idiot at the Winspear Opera House and the one-woman play Red Hot... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
Something bugging you? Hop over to Dallas Children's Theater to catch the regional premiere of the delightful Diary of a Worm, a Spider & a Fly.... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
To get down with Uptown Players and Upstart Productions, you'd better be up on your movies. Both theater companies have shows right now paying... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
Adam and Luke are the odd couple Neil Simon didn't write. Funny, gay and in love, they're the couple at the center of Geoffrey Nauffts'... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
There's only one mystery in Theatre Three's latest, The Art of Murder, and that is how it ever made it onto a professional stage. Sans suspense... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
The wild and wonderful Westons of Oklahoma are back. Think your family's crazy? This bunch thrives on hard liquor and invective. As the subjects... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
A creepy mansion crawling with unhappy ghosts is the setting of Henry James' spooky 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw, now playing at Kitchen... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
All rise for Superior Donuts. Tracy Letts' funny little play about lonely people has brought light and laughter (and the scent of coffee and... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
Uptown Players, take a bow. Ten years ago this gay-focused theater company, started by executive producers Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane, put on... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
"That awkward moment when ..." is a running theme in some of the best shows in this year's busy Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at Addison's... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
What writer Aaron Sorkin did with the founding of Facebook for his Oscar-winning screenplay The Social Network, he does with similar flourishes... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
"A long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." Charles Manson said that. If anybody's qualified to weigh in on crazy,... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
A lot of drinking and heavy thinking can happen on a hot day on a veranda. Two good shows running on Dallas stages right now — The Night of... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
As small, intense, pull-your-hair-out comedies, the new plays Coyote and Collapse have a lot in common. Coyote, playing a few more performances... More >>
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Musical take on classic Texas tales pales compared to less-lavish Kismet
By Elaine Liner
A giant of a musical opened here the other night, but it wasn't Giant, the horseless cowpoke operetta now plodding along at the Wyly Theatre, a... More >>
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From Houston to Broadway on a trail of slime.
By Elaine Liner
"If a blind girl won't love ugly people, who will?" That's the central dilemma in Toxic Avenger, the eye-popping, knee-slapping, sci-fi musical... More >>
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Unlike Melancholy Play, where it's crickets chirping.
By Elaine Liner
Call a play a farce and it damn well better be funny. Michael Frayn's Noises Off is far and away the farciest of all modern farces. Full of... More >>
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WaterTower and Stage West offer two different takes on power and intolerance.
By Elaine Liner
"I want to go on living after my death," Anne Frank wrote in her diary around the age of 14. She wanted to be a professional writer when she grew... More >>
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Pegasus' annual black-and-white offering should pick up the pace.
By Elaine Liner
Pegasus Theatre does only one production annually. One of their "Living Black and White" plays has opened at the Eisemann Center on the first... More >>
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Some misery you enjoy. Some comedy is just miserable.
By Elaine Liner
It's called Les Misérables, so don't expect comedy. You don't look to Victor Hugo's depiction of the 1832 Paris uprisings for belly... More >>
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What a year it has been. What a fine theater town we're in.
By Elaine Liner
The real world beyond their stage doors may have been spinning from disaster to disaster, but somehow in the land of make-believe inside Dallas... More >>
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Playwright Kurt Kleinmann's stays mum on how they drain color from the stage.
By Elaine Liner
There's something to be said for seeing the world in shades of gray. For 26 years that's been the philosophy of Dallas' Pegasus Theatre, which... More >>
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A Christmas Carol, Greetings! and Dick Whittington deck the stages.
By Elaine Liner
Like Ebenezer Scrooge, a certain rotund, snow-haired, thrice-married GOP presidential candidate regards poor children as slackers. "It is tragic... More >>
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WaterTower Theatre commits musical re-gifting.
By Elaine Liner
The title of WaterTower Theatre's revival of Rockin' Christmas Party is missing its "g" for a reason. Throughout the two-plus hours of singin'... More >>
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Richardson venue welcomes all, from bards to belly dancers.
By Elaine Liner
It's a quarter to 8 on a Monday night at Open Stage, the weekly talent showcase at House of Poets in Richardson, and the incense is growing... More >>
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Theatre Too romances tunes of John Bucchino; KDT takes dull journey with 26 Miles.
By Elaine Liner
November is early for valentines, but at Theatre Too love is in the air with It's Only Life, a 30-song revue by composer John Bucchino. Performed... More >>
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Strokes of genius in Ochre House's new play about Frida Kahlo.
By Elaine Liner
Seeing any show at Matthew Posey's 40-seat Ochre House is a bit like watching a circus unfold in a walk-in closet. So much happens in so little... More >>
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Lyric Stage's revival depicts hard times a century ago.
By Elaine Liner
There is a fiddler and there is a roof in Rags, the 1986 musical getting a splendid revival at Irving's Lyric Stage. But those aren't the only... More >>
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By Elaine Liner
Two good Dallas actresses are getting their due in a pair of shows obsessed with courtship, marriage and the whole damn thing called love. One... More >>
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Wingspan's Earnest is mild Wilde.
By Elaine Liner
What would an Uptown Players production be without a naked man in it? Its core audience, gay middle-aged men who flock to Uptown's gay-themed... More >>
