Jubilee Theatre triumphs with muscular Brothers Size

When a play and the performances in it are as stirring as Jubilee Theatre’s The Brothers Size, it’s hard to find the right descriptives to do it justice. “Compelling” is too overused by critics. “Awesome,” too trite. Just know that the words of playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney and the work…

Just Shoot Them: Bonnie & Clyde at WaterTower Theatre

Hardly matters anymore if a musical is a hit or a flop on Broadway. Big regional companies like Addison’s WaterTower Theatre are so starved for new shows they’ll grab rights to anything that played a week or two in New York, as long as there are roles for hot young…

Cara Mia Theatre Puts on Teotl: The Sand Show (Didn’t Dig It)

Theater companies and arts critics around Dallas have declared recent SMU drama grad Jeffrey Colangelo a budding genius as a playwright, director and fight choreographer. He’s certainly a genius at one thing: convincing people he’s brilliant with shows that are both boring and baffling in their lack of originality. His…

Bonnie & Clyde Cast Hold Up YouTube With Music Video to “Bang Bang”

“Criminals have more fun” could’ve been the subtitle of the musical, Bonnie & Clyde, currently on stage at WaterTower Theatre. History’s law-breaking power couple certainly have a better time than the rest of their family in the Depression-era story. And it seems the actors playing them are having a damn…

Siblings Go at it in Two-Character Play

Tennessee Williams described The Two-Character Play as his “most beautiful” drama after A Streetcar Named Desire. He may have been a bit too in love with his own words. It’s a haunting piece laced with poetry, madness and tragedy, but it’s no Streetcar. The current production of The Two-Character Play…

Strong Singers Boost Weak Script of Little Women at CTD

Director Michael Serrecchia has gathered some mighty big voices to play Little Women in the musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s novel. Contemporary Theatre of Dallas ends its season with this show. On a multi-level set by Rodney Dobbs that has the cast navigating steps made of giant stacks of…

DCT Teases Up Big Comedy with Rapunzel! Rapunzel!

At Dallas Children’s Theater, Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale, directed by Nancy Schaeffer, is letting the title character’s hair down while bringing the house down with giggles of delighted young audiences. This is children’s theater at its best, cast with top professional grown-ups — Erika Larsen as the…

Avant Chamber Ballet Explores the Animal Kingdom This Weekend

In 2012, Avant Chamber Ballet gavotted into Dallas promptly presenting more than a dozen world premiere ballets, as well as two regional premieres. The collaborative efforts of Artistic Director Katie Puder and Music Director David Cooper keeps the organization on its toes, pairing live chamber music with original choreography. With…

More Shakespeare and More Beer, Please!

This morning, KERA’s Jerome Weeks commented on my Facebook check-in at Shakespeare in the Bar last night with a link to a New Yorker article about Drunk Shakespeare, pointing out that New York did it first. I squinted at the screen, rubbed my aching head and thought, damn it, it’s…

Looking for Monday Night Plans? Try Shakespeare in the Bar

Some rebellious theater kids take over The Wild Detectives tonight for the first-ever rendition Shakespeare in a Bar. Well, we’re pretty sure we’ve heard some drunken actors (maybe even some of these guys) reciting lines of iambic pentameter over a double whisky on the rocks. Now it’s just a bit…

Bods and Monsters: DTC Pumps Rocky Horror

Have you been shivering with antici … pation for a new Rocky Horror Show? That not only does the Time Warp but the Bristol Stomp, a Rockette kick line and maybe a little Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies, but with sequined 20-inch dildos? Dallas Theater Center has opened its season…