“Why is theater so old?” Morgana Wilborn, the 33-year old woman who runs the education department at Dallas Theater Center, says with a laugh. According to numbers provided by DTC, of the 17,801 people who attended a performance at the theater last year, 74 percent were older than 35 and…
Kevin Moriarty is tight-lipped. “This could be the most pointless conversation you will ever have,” joked Dallas Theater Center’s artistic director when asked about DTC’s upcoming production of White Rabbit Red Rabbit. “Nearly everything you ask, I will dodge and weave.” Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour wrote White Rabbit Red Rabbit…
Shakespeare Dallas has a challenge ahead. Its 2018 season opens June 6 with the The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew and running intermittently. Committed to a diverse repertoire, Shakespeare Dallas opted to perform The Taming of the Shrew — which deals with a politically charged topic that is at the…
Vision seems to be the driving force for The Classics Theatre Project. Joey Folsom, a Dallas actor and director, considers the purpose of a theater company to be to get people in the room where they might find “a moment of humanity and empathy.” And in this highly polarized moment,…
The Tony Award-winning play The Humans explores the tough work of being human in a family filled with other humans. Disappointment, unmet expectations, illness, betrayal and aging are vividly portrayed alongside the deeply human need to find refuge with other humans who bring their own unique set of needs, flaws…
Daisy Eagan began acting when she was 9 years old. Just two years later in 1991, Eagan became the youngest recipient of a Tony Award for her performance in the musical The Secret Garden. On May 8, Eagan comes to Dallas to perform in The Humans, the 2016 Tony Award-winning…
Kitchen Dog Theater, now in its 27th year, recently premiered Pompeii, a musical comedy about the ill-fated citizens of the eponymous ancient city in the final days before the eruption of Vesuvius. The doomed residents of Pompeii serve as stand-ins for all of humanity going about their day-to-day lives just…
After more than seven years at the helm, Keith Cerny resigned his position as CEO/general director of the Dallas Opera in December. Six months later, the Dallas Opera announced its choice to replace him. Ian Derrer is the new CEO and general director of the Dallas Opera, the eighth in…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Soluna International Music & Arts Festival moves out of the Arts District on May 12 and heads to Deep Ellum for a one-night music and art and tech extravaganza at the Bomb Factory and Canton Hall. Soluna is teaming up with Capital One to present Array,…
In the 1880s, the spot that is now the Dallas Heritage Village was home to the first public park, known to locals as Old City Park. Photos from the early 1900s show tree-lined streets and stately homes in this area of town outside of Dallas’ central business district. In 1905,…
Bread is an entertaining and gripping play about the secrets family members keep from one another. It explores the differing perspectives held by people who share much in common. And, it serves as a historical document recounting the heritage of a city. The world premiere of Bread, a politically charged play…
In the Dallas Opera’s production of Don Giovanni, there are moments when the women appear flattered by Giovanni’s compliments and advances. After all, Giovanni is a rich, powerful man; the lyrics of one aria ask “How can a nobleman be guilty of such a crime?” But every sexual encounter devolves…
The Trials of Sam Houston, by playwright Aaron Loeb, centers on the 1832 trial of Sam Houston after Houston attacked a congressman on the streets of Washington, D.C., with a cane. The two-act play will premiere Friday at the Dallas Theater Center. The theater commissioned the play, directed by Kevin Moriarty,…
When Anthony Anderson went home from school, nobody could help him with his homework because no one in his family could read music. The youngest of seven kids, Anderson was the only one in the house whose homework included sight-reading music sheets and studying German and Italian. Now 19, Anderson…
Dallas Summer Musicals, for many years as the sole provider of Broadway entertainment in the city, has been presenting live theater in Fair Park since 1941. Then in 2009, the AT&T Performing Arts Center — another organization vying for the same productions and the same audience — opened. Its inaugural season included…
Dallas music and performing arts festival Soluna returns next month for its fourth year with the theme “Shadow and Light.” The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s three-week celebration of music and art is May 6-28 in various locations throughout Dallas. Professional skater and multimedia artist Jennifer Wester will present the world premiere…
If you were old enough to pay attention in the 1970s, you might remember attempts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment. State after state ratified the bill, which the majority of both houses of Congress had passed in 1972, and its passage seemed foreordained — until the rhetoric heated up…
Terrance M. Johnson describes the seven men and seven women who make up his eponymous dance company as ambassadors. Dancers don’t audition for the Terrance M. Johnson Dance Project but are invited, and they must serve the community with their talent and be willing to help him on his mission…
It was a celebration of all things green as a group of about 25 people gathered at the MAC POP Garden launch in the Cedars neighborhood. A few kids tried out their painting skills in a project using natural dye, and visitors weaved yarn through slats on a large wooden…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Jeff Tyzik, treated audiences this weekend to The Nat King Cole Songbook. Fans of the popular jazz crooner, who died in 1965, were not disappointed. During the program’s first half, Denzal Sinclair sang many popular Cole tunes. His silky vocals echoed the romantic,…
It’s a breezy and sunny Friday in March, the last day of school before spring break, and boys in jackets and ties are quietly studying in the library when the bell rings. A noisy throng races through the foyer, where a marble and steel crucifix hangs alongside a painting of…
The Dallas Opera presented the U.S. premier Friday night of Sunken Garden, a modern one-act opera first performed in 2013 at the English National Opera. The innovative composer Michel van der Aa collaborated with novelist David Mitchell, who wrote the libretto, to create a multimedia dramatic performance that is part opera…
