On Friday, The Safe Room at the Texas Theatre will celebrate the opening of a short film entitled Two Story, and also the reunion of the childhood friends who co-directed it. Frank Mosley had grown accustomed to directing solo, when he reconnected with his high school buddy, Lee Luna. The…
Opening Undermain Theatre’s thirty-first season, we’ve got the world premiere of a play by Gordon Dahlquist, and it’s perfect for fountain-of-youth hunting Dallasites. Tomorrow Come Today is a futuristic sci-fi thriller about a world where the wealthy can exchange their tired, old bodies for fresh, young ones, allowing them to…
If Broadway is The Great White Way, you might call Turtle Creek The Great Rainbow Way this month, as theater group Uptown Players has returned to the Kalita Humphreys Theatre (3636 Turtle Creek Blvd) with its 4th annual Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival. The nine-day festival features plays, a concert…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. “Sorry if the reception’s bad, I’m headed into a national sequoia forest,” Toby Halbrooks says, answering…
You might say that this month, TeCo Theatrical Productions is celebrating gay marriage, because their PlayPride festival is the perfect union between theatre and the gay pride movement. The festival features six one-act plays about LGBT issues, all written by Texans. There’s also a competitive element: each playwright will vie…
When Teresa Coleman-Walsh, founder and artistic director of TeCo Theatrical Productions, received a submission to the company’s annual New Play competition entitled Three Guys in a Bed, she immediately wanted to help bring it to the stage. But the play was far too edgy –think full frontal nudity– for the fairly…
Did you know that Barbra Streisand has a shopping mall in the basement of her house? (Stars, they’re just like us!). That real mall is the setting of Jonathan Tolins’ otherwise fictional one-man comedy, Buyer & Cellar, which arrives at the Dallas City Performance Hall (2520 Flora St.) Wednesday after…
The Chinese zodiac may indicate that 2014 is the Year of the Horse, but at the Wyly Theatre it’s opening night for Year of the Rooster. Upstart Production’s performance of this play about cockfighting kicks off a six-part series dubbed the Elevator Project. The project invites small, local companies to…
The Chinese zodiac may indicate that 2014 is the Year of the Horse, but on August 22nd, Year of the Rooster will take the stage at the Wyly Theatre. Upstart Production’s performance of the play inaugurates a six-part series that AT&T Performing Arts Center has dubbed The Elevator Project. The…
When you have an appointment to meet George Quartz, there’s necessarily some uncertainty about who will show up. Will you be speaking with Bryan Campbell, the man behind the man George Quartz? Or should you prepare yourself for the flurry of ostrich feathers and blaze of neon light that would appropriately accompany his alter ego?
Matthew Mahon had his first sexual experience with a prostitute at the age of 14, an encounter that was paid for by a friend’s uncle. At the time, he couldn’t have imagined that his career would someday take him to seedy motel rooms, where he would spend hours working with…
When Booth opens at Second Thought Theatre this Friday, it will be the product of many years of friendship and work by co-creators Steven Walters and Erik Archilla. The pair met as freshman at Baylor University and have sporadically worked on the political thriller about John Wilkes Booth since they…
Doomsday forecasters have offered plenty of scenarios in recent years, but Kitchen Dog Theater’s upcoming production of Barbecue Apocalypse promises to be a funnier account of the end of times than any you’ve likely heard. The play opens Friday and serves as the centerpiece of the theater’s New Works Festival…
