Radio City Rockettes Will Host an Audition in Dallas This Weekend

Since 2001, the Radio City Rockettes have hosted the Rockettes Summer Intensive, a weeklong camp at which dancers get to train like Rockettes in the same space where the Rockettes rehearse for their annual Christmas Spectacular. In those 18 years, 75 women have been hired as full-time Rockettes after completing the…

Comedians To See in DFW in January

There’s no time like now to get a good laugh. Every time you turn on the news, it’s a horror show and your nerves are frayed from giving up smoking, alcohol, gambling and pornography. You need a release, so why not partake in the healing powers of laughter? Lucky for…

See 50 Comedians Tell Their First Joke of 2019

It’s not uncommon to hear 50 jokes in one night at a stand-up comedy show. What is uncommon is to hear those 50 jokes spread across 50 different stand-up comedians. Stomping Ground Comedy Theater will be doing just that when they host 50 First Jokes on Saturday to ring in…

Dave Lieber Writes Funny Play About the Late Amon Carter Sr.

Something has haunted Dave Lieber ever since he came to North Texas. And now, he’s written a book about it. “I’d been to four or five newspapers, and I never really experienced a ghost like that,” he says of Amon Carter Sr.’s lasting impression while working for two decades at…

Improv Comedy Is Coming to the Symphony for a Weekend

A night at the symphony is known for many things. But laughing until your sides hurt isn’t one of them. The crew at comedy powerhouse Second City aims to change that when they bring their traveling show, The Second City Guide to the Symphony, to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony…

Despite Small Hiccups, The Phantom of the Opera Is a Must-See

Now Broadway’s longest-running musical, The Phantom of the Opera is a classic that every theater nerd knows well. Revamped by Cameron Mackintosh, the musical theater-producing legend, this year’s North American tour is a fresh take on Broadway’s classic. The cast and 52-piece orchestra are here thanks to the Dallas Summer…

Dallas Comedian Wes Corwin Is Having a Hell of a Year

In a packed Addison Improv showroom, the Funniest Comic in Texas Contest, a competition that sprawled over multiple rounds going all the way back to October, crowned its winner, Dallas comedian Wes Corwin. The finals, held Dec. 12, were a showdown of comedians from all over the state, hosting both…

Arlington Improv Is Turning its Restaurant Into an Arcade

The Arlington Improv has been the place to go to see a national touring comedian and grab a late-night drink. Starting this month, it will also be the place to break your all-time high score on Ms. Pac-Man. The Arlington Improv is converting its restaurant space outside of the showroom…

Dallas-Based Comedic Murder Podcast Cracks iTunes’ Top 10

When Heather McKinney and Christie Wallace found out the podcast they co-host, Sinisterhood, cracked iTunes’ top 10 list for U.S. Comedy Podcasts, they assumed something must be wrong. After seeing how many times Sinisterhood had been downloaded in such a short period, Wallace went so far as to reach out…

Amy Sedaris Is Coming to Richardson to Accept Award

Actress and comedian Amy Sedaris doesn’t have a lot of time to herself, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. “I look at my calendar and I can’t believe it,” Sedaris says. “I’m busier than I want to be right now.” She’s not only starring and writing in her own…

5 Reviews of Elf: The Musical Depending on Who You Are

Here’s the problem reviewing something involving Christmas: If you have anything negative to say, you come off looking like a monster. So you think It’s a Wonderful Life is a chore to watch? “Go back to your country!” someone will shout. It’s an unfair sentiment because some Christmas things are…

Jane Lynch Is Trying To Save Arts Funding in Dallas Schools

Sue Sylvester would be horrified at Jane Lynch’s fight for the arts in schools and communities. Or so we think. Lynch, who played Sylvester, the musical-hating cheerleading coach in the hit show Glee, is hosting Dallas Summer Musical’s Best of Broadway Gala. Lynch is joined by none other than Matthew Morrison, who…

Dallas Comedy House Is Moving Early 2019

In roughly six months, moving trucks will be loaded with the tables, costumes and autographed pictures that made up Dallas Comedy House as it moves away from its second location in Deep Ellum. The trucks won’t be driving far however, as they need to go only one street over, to…

Listen to People Tell Their First-Time Stories at Theatre Too

The first time you have sex will most likely be a memorable one. The anticipation, the awkwardness, the fear, the excitement — all of these emotions make even the slightest details of the night crystallize in your brain. My First Time, a comedy being performed at Theatre Too one night…

MST3K Creator Joel Hodgson Brings the Live Show to Majestic Theatre

For the last 30 years, your television has been able to access at least one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, whether it’s a rerun, a DVD or an unauthorized upload to the internet from the show’s original seven-season run. The critically acclaimed comedy creation concocted by writer and comedian Joel Hodgson,…