Jason Segel didn’t tell his book club he’d been cast as novelist David Foster Wallace in James Ponsoldt’s biopic The End of the Tour. “I didn’t want to sound like Fancy Pants McGee,” admits Segel over lunch in Los Angeles. (Especially since the 6-foot-4-inch comedy actor is famous for dropping…
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and musicals go together about as well as milk and stomach problems. Or at least that’s what you might think. Somehow, though, a Dallas Comedy House troupe made it work. And it’s hella funny. On Friday night, Law and Order SVUiscal premiered to a…
At this point, we’ve all sort of adjusted to this oppressive heat. It’s just a fact of life, and we can no longer wallow in our air-conditioned homes pretending that it’s going to get cooler outside. Once you’ve made the decision to step out of the air conditioned paradise that…
WaterTower Theatre in Addison has trouble getting musicals right and just about every aspect of its current production of Sweet Charity is wrong. That’s being charitable. Actors who can’t sing. Dancers with no sense of rhythm. A set better suited for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. So much dark lumber…
Some musicals are plot-driven, with a few numbers interspersed here and there, but a musical about one of the most beloved record labels of all time and its founder should have lots of them. In that sense, Motown: The Musical surely delivers — perhaps even beyond what is desired or…
For three weeks in July, Undermain Theatre’s co-artistic director, Katherine Owens, was shuttling between a rehearsal hall and a luxurious mountain home, where she roomed with a handful of nationally renowned theater artists. Owens was there as part of Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab to work alongside Len Jenkin in the development…
What has 54 legs and flies? Catch Me if You Can, the 27-person musical now cruising along at high altitude at Uptown Players at Kalita Humphreys Theater. What a show! What a cast! What a way to close out the strongest season yet for the little company out-producing the Dallas…
It’s a scientific fact. Somewhere in the world, there’s at least one screen showing an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It doesn’t matter if it’s an old person watching a rerun on USA because they mistook it for Matlock or a serial downloader watching an illegally obtained episode…
Thursday, July 30 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams did reality TV before Survivor was a glimmer in Jeff Probst’s eye. He didn’t live his life on stage, but he did sneak a large portion of said life in the play, The Glass Menagerie. In it, Williams is Tom, son of…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast: The Vacation reboot disappoints, as does Adam Sandler’s Pixels (but it can’t be near as bad as critics are describing, says the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl). Meanwhile, the ’40s noir melodrama Phoenix might be one of the year’s best, says Voice film critic…
In a place like Dallas, most of us just assume that sex work is a thing that happens here, in back-alleys and strip clubs. Of course, the actual reality of sex work in our fair city is much different, but it is rare that we are blatantly confronted with its…
BoJack Horseman lurched out of the gate last year with a whole lotta animal puns and one uncomplicated thesis: Old sitcoms suck. An aggressively stupid and mawkish show from the late ’80s called Horsin’ Around, about an equine-human hybrid in Cosby sweaters who adopts three adorable orphans, made its star,…
I’m having a really hard time with the death of the Dallas Zoo’s baby giraffe, Kipenzi. Earlier this month, I lugged a video camera out to the Zoo, a place I hadn’t set foot in such childhood. To my mind, these baby animals were symbols not just of what attracts…
This Friday evening at 6 o’clock, if you see a bunch of people holding hands in a long line from Main Street in Deep Ellum to Ash Lane in Fair Park, it’s not protest or performance art. Dubbed “Hands Across Deep Ellum,” it aims to bring together creative types of…
You’re running out of time to see a few of my favorite exhibitions so far this year, so I’ve made you a list that combines those and a few new openings. Closing this weekend: Concentrations 58: Chosil Kil This is the little show that can’t be ignored. London-based artist Chosil…
We’ve already established that there is a depressing dearth of fashionable plus-size clothing in Dallas, but that doesn’t mean that there are absolutely zero boutiques in this city selling the fashion-forward clothing that plus-size consumers are practically dying to buy. As we mentioned last week, the Marlie Madison Boutique is…
At 53, Tom Cruise is past the retirement age of every James Bond except Roger Moore. Yet his 19-year-old Mission: Impossible series ticks on, counting down the seconds till its next explosion — and Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is determined to unman his cross-Atlantic competition. Forget high-tech gadgets. The older Cruise…
It’s been 32 years since the release of National Lampoon’s Vacation, in which Chevy Chase, as dad Clark Griswold, packed his Griswold clan into what looked like a Country Squire from Hell and sought the family-bonding experienceTM by driving cross-country to a mythical mega–amusement park known as Walley World. If…
Every tattoo is different. This art form is permanent and personal, especially for the people who create it. On a mission to ink our own skin, we researched and tracked down some of the best tattoo artists in Dallas for an ongoing series. (The first one on the list became…
Be afeard, the aisle is full of noises. Also the stage, the exits and the stairwell in Second Thought Theatre’s slam-bang-hollerin’ production of Othello at Bryant Hall. What’s with all the Shoutspeare going on this summer? Shakespeare Dallas put microphones on all the actors in its outdoor Romeo & Juliet…
Sadie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” and “Dancing with the Stars” fame is here to make everything a little bit brighter. To make the sun shine a little bit more. To direct a little bit more of god’s smile at you and your loved ones. OK, we’re sorry for that, but…
Today, I woke up to a blast of warm air on my face. What used to be our air conditioner has now become a furnace. Our power was out. In fact, everyone on our side of JuggaloNation (my new name for The Gathering of the Juggalos campground) was out of…
