Imagine if the Rude Mechs had a love child with Taylor Mac (or Daniel Alexander Jones), and then named Young Jean Lee the godmother. You might find him crawling around Dallas theater today introducing himself as Brigham Mosley. Of course, you won’t need to know the cultural lineage of Mosley’s…
For some playwrights, winning the Pulitzer Prize for a first or second play marks the end of a promising career as a dramatist. It happened with Margaret Edson and her 1999 Pulitzer winner W;t (she’s never written another play). With Charles Fuller and A Soldier’s Play (1982). And with Paul…
When writing of WaterTower Theatre’s production of All My Sons, which opens tonight, the Morning News’ Nancy Churnin raises an interesting point about the show’s playwright Arthur Miller. She says that in the past decade her admiration for Miller has been challenged by the 2007 revelation in a Vanity Fair…
Spring is festival season in Texas and before it gets too hot head over to Cowtown for this years’ Fort Worth Opera festival. Since the Fort Worth Opera shifted from a traditional season to a festival format in 2007, fans look forward to this opportunity to spend a weekend focused…
Even though we’re terribly far away from the East Coast, Dallas frequently plays host to some of the most beloved Broadway shows when they head out on the road. If you’re interested in the theatre and don’t mind seeing a touring cast, you can damn near see any Broadway musical…
A small show that packs a mighty emotional wallop, the four-person musical Ordinary Days has a few more performances by Our Productions Theatre Company in the studio space at Addison’s Theatre Center. If you like bittersweet sung-through mini-musicals like [title of show], this one, just 80 minutes long, will leave…
As a play about football, but not just about football, Colossal packs more action and drama into its four 15-minute quarters (plus 10-minute “halftime show”) than most actual games. Now running at the Wyly Theatre, Dallas Theater Center’s production of Andrew Hinderaker’s 75-minute drama-with-dance, staged by DTC artistic director Kevin…
Comedian Aaron Aryanpur is one of the reasons why Dallas has a comedy scene. He started performing when there was just one comedy club in town, which usually catered to out-of-towner headliners. The rest were coffee shops and bars that had an unoccupied corner and an owner who didn’t mind…
Inevitably when something in pop culture becomes officially popular, there is a rush from production studios and fans to spin it off into as many different forms of media as possible from a series of TV show spinoffs to a Saturday morning cartoon to a supremely sugary breakfast cereal. Welcome…
By Linda Smith Pyotr Tchaikovsky was never a fan of his last opera Iolanta, finished a year before his death in 1893. He felt it repeated themes from his earlier operas, and the plot is simple, especially when compared to other works in the operatic genre. As such, it is…
All painting isn’t an act of theater, but it can be. Which is why the next Prism Co. show sounds as much like a live painting event as it does a play. That’s the wonderful thing about this young, upstart company: They aren’t just stretching the definition of what theater…
What did you do over your Easter weekend? Most of you without children probably didn’t even realize it was Easter until you noticed an upsurge in Cadbury Creme Eggs at drug stores and creepy, humanoid rabbits taking over the city (outside of the usual furry convention season, too). Comedian roommates…
Like the canned meat product for which it’s named, the musical comedy Spamalot is a funny-looking conglomerate of weird ingredients, some easily identifiable, some a bit gross. Granbury Theatre Company, the community-based troupe at the historic Granbury Opera House south of Fort Worth, has a tasty fry-up of Monty Python’s…
Dallas Summer Musicals, so often the host of half-baked road-weary tours of recent Broadway flops, has produced its own fairly lavish and beautifully cast revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The King and I, now winding up its short run at Fair Park. It’s a good time to get…
“This isn’t your English class’ Shakespeare,” Katherine Bourne says in our new video of Shakespeare in the Bar, the wildly popular theater series at Wild Detectives. She’s right about that. We’ve told you how much fun we’ve been having at these pop-up theater performances at the bookstore/coffeeshop/bar in the Bishop…
For the last 15 years, T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi of the comedy duo of T.J. & Dave have started their shows with the same, simple method. They walk out on stage, introduce each other and assure the crowd, “Trust us, this is all made up.” Some music plays, the…
It’s often been said that writers and artists work best when they have a gun to their head. A theater in Plano will provide five casts with that kind of motivation, and since this is Texas, we should probably mention that it will only be a proverbial gun. Rover Dramawerks…
When the Dallas Comedy House booked Jackass star Preston Lacy to be one of their headliners for the stand-up section of their annual Dallas Comedy Festival, they had to make a special agreement. “I had to agree with the venue that I wouldn’t be bringing any animals or weapons or…
The fewer people onstage in Theatre Three’s heavily populated Hot Mikado, the more fun the show. A 1986 adaptation by David H. Bell and Rob Bowman of an even older jazz version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, this one is directed and designed with an emphasis on frenetic movement…
The woman we meet in Irish-born writer Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary is no ethereal virgin. She’s a pissed-off mother of a wayward son, tired of the “misfits” who followed him around, angry that 20 years after his death she’s a prisoner of apostles who just want her to…
Next Tuesday kicks off the 6th annual Dallas Comedy Festival at the Dallas Comedy House. The giant celebration of improv, sketch, stand up and short film comedy has grown tremendously over the years, bringing in performers from all over the country. This year, the festival will host 27 stand up…
Agatha Christie’s 1943 whodunit And Then There Were None is packing them in at Plano’s Cox Building Playhouse. Audiences love a well-done mystery and this one, creaky as it is, and so repetitive in its three acts that you might wish the murderer would kill faster, is sufficiently entertaining…
