Comedian Bert Kreischer is a happy guy, and it’s not the beer talking. “I’m extremely happy,” Kreischer says. “For the first time in this entire business, I get to do anything I want to do and not because I have to do it.” These days, the things Kreischer says he…
Kitchen Dog Theater will serve a dark-comedy cocktail when it presents the regional premiere of playwright Clare Barron’s You Got Older. The sometimes-raunchy dramedy mixes Mae’s erotic fantasies about an imaginary cowboy carrying a whip and stirs them together with a good measure of grief, creating the powerful story of…
Claudia Oshry is just a girl with no job. But of course she has nearly half a dozen jobs, all consisting of buzz words that baby boomers roll their eyes at. She’s the social media personality behind the Instagram account @girlwithnojob that began as a blog about her internship (when…
When you’re watching a local-produced sketch or improvisational comedy show, chances are that the performers, writers and other crew members aren’t getting a single cent from the box office or the club housing them. Lindsay Goldapp, the managing director of the nonprofit Stomping Ground Comedy Theater, wrote on the theater’s…
Alex Organ, Second Thought Theatre’s artistic director, became interested in British playwright Nick Payne when Dallas Theater Center presented Constellations, a play filled with big thoughts about things like string theory, multiple universes and assisted suicide. Incognito considers equally lofty ideas. Payne uses the strange but true tale of Thomas…
A constantly ringing cellphone is not really unusual. Unless it belongs to a dead man. And when the dead man is involved in an overseas bodily organ trade, has a wife, a mistress – and is also in love with you – the tangled mess grows even more bizarre. Dead…
If you purchased tickets for comedian Amy Schumer’s show back in November, you’ll get the chance to finally use them in March. The AT&T Performing Arts Center announced that the stand-up comedian and star of the hit Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer rescheduled the show she planned to perform…
An upcoming Dallas ticket lottery means that some can watch The Book of Mormon while hanging onto a bigger chunk of their cash. Ticket prices at The Music Hall at Fair Park run the gamut from $46 to hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars. But the lottery will allow a…
Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is about to film his 10th comedy special, and he’s decided to film it in the place where he got his start in show business. “It’s a homecoming for me,” Dunham says from his home in Los Angeles. “It’s like, ‘Why in the world have I…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Winspear Opera House triple dog dares everyone in Dallas to show up when they present A Christmas Story, The Musical from Dec. 12 through 16. The movie that made pink bunnies, leggy lamps and almost shooting your eye out Christmas staples received the Broadway musical treatment, and the touring cast…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When Joe Bob Briggs filmed The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs for the streaming service Shudder, he thought it would be the last time he sat in front of a camera as a host for a show. “I’m going to do it one last time,” Briggs said at the…
