Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Bill Burr at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas The redheaded, red-tempered comedian from East Coast is back in Dallas Thursday night for an evening of high-pitched sarcasm, verbal inner dialogue and yelling into the…
A Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) is becoming a standard stop for celebs whenever they have something new to promote, or just some time to kill. Even Obama stopped by once. But the President didn’t say anything near as entertaining as the pros. Check out our favorite AMA answers from…
“I like criticism, but it must be my way,” said Mark Twain. That also goes for the actor Val Kilmer, currently portraying Twain at the Wyly Theatre (through April 22) in a one-man touring production he wrote and directed. To be granted tickets to last night’s performance of Citizen Twain,…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. George Willborn at the Arlington Improv Attention, ladies: There is no magic dress. If you looked fat out of the dress, you look fat in the dress. Pearls of wisdom from George Willborn,…
By now, every media slob in Dallas has interviewed Val Kilmer. The 53-year-old actor’s been in town for a couple of weeks, rehearsing his one-man Citizen Twain show, playing April 18 through 21 at the Wyly Theatre. He wrote the one-act performance after a decade of research for a movie…
If only we could tithe to the muse who inspires the strange and wonderful plays Matthew Posey thinks up and puts on at his Ochre House theater. His latest, written and directed by Posey, starring Justin Locklear, Elizabeth Evans and Posey, is Dreams of Slaughtered Sheep, a two-act comic meditation…
The Joads do finally make it to California in The Grapes of Wrath. Though not without a great many problems. Now onstage at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre, Frank Galati’s inelegant stage adaptation of the magnificent Steinbeck novel is directed by WaterTower artistic director Terry Martin. He’s put some seriously talented local…
Nobody’s doing children’s theater around here the way Jeff Swearingen, Bren Rapp and the kids of Fun House Theatre and Film in Plano are doing it. We liked their all-youth Man of La Mancha and were impressed by their all-kid Hamlet. Now they’re taking on a darker American classic, but…
Louis CK’s been popping up all over the place, which must mean he has a special coming out soon. *checks listings* Aha! It says here there’s a new HBO special this Saturday night, in fact, called Oh My God. Which is lucky, because I was just compiling the following excellent…
Every week we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Maz Jobrani at the Addison Improv A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, Jobrani likes to explore such safe topics as Iran’s wishy-washy nuclear program and Asians’ inability to drive…
At Denton Square Donuts, on an unseasonable cool April night, four members of Denton Comedy Collective sit at a table shellacked with Bible verses. Matthew Solomon, Robert Joseph, Alex Smelser and Ron Lechler are all 20-somethings trying to make it in the big, bad world of stand-up comedy. For them,…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Carlos Mencia at Addison Improv This Honduras-born comedian rose to superstardom with his show Mind of Mencia and a ridiculous catch phrase. His Comedy Central stand-up special, No Strings Attached, was a huge…
Programs handed out at performances of Rx at Kitchen Dog Theater should list possible side effects of seeing the new Kate Fodor play: sudden bursts of laughter, slapped knees, tickled ribs, split sides. And if you relate to the predicaments of the characters, perhaps some major waves of empathy. Such…
Solo comedy actor John Michael Colgin is only 23 and still finding his way as an out-gay writer and performer of his own material. His latest is the enjoyable but uneven John Michael and the Order of the Penix, his third show at the small experimental company Nouveau 47 at…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. An Intimate Evening With Bruce Vilanch at The Rose Room Bruce Vilanch is here to dish, and it’s gonna be good. He’s the head writer for the Oscars, pals with Bette Midler and…
Oscar Madison, hot slob? OK, let’s go with that. In Dallas Theater Center’s production of Neil Simon’s ever-delightful comedy The Odd Couple, director Kevin Moriarty has cast handsome New York actor J. Anthony Crane as the messy one. Smart twist. We go in expecting a Walter Matthau or a Jack…
Tonight, the fourth annual Dallas Comedy Festival begins at the Dallas Comedy House (coincidence or conspiracy?), and it’s looking good, y’all. While many of Friday and Saturday’s workshops have sold out, there are still tickets available for the performances. We’ve picked out some of the most interesting ones below; feel…
The best things that can happen to a playwright happened to Dallas writer D. L. Coburn in the 1970s. Then in his mid-30s and working in advertising, Coburn wrote his first play, The Gin Game, a two-act two-hander about a man named Weller and a woman named Fonsia. In their…
We reported last September that Dallas would finally get a look at The Book of Mormon, the Tony-winning musical from the creators of South Park that has left critics raving and some elderly audience members leaving at intermission after realizing what sort of performance they bought tickets to. The AT&T…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Jim Gaffigan at the Majestic Theatre If you have a fetish for alabaster, breathy men with high-pitched voices, Jim Gaffigan’s your guy. We’ve lost count of how many times he’s been a guest…
Look beyond the politics espoused in the fact-based one-woman drama My Name Is Rachel Corrie, currently onstage at Second Thought Theatre at Bryant Hall. They’re dicey and have drawn controversy since the play debuted in London in 2005. Rachel Corrie, raised in a comfortable home in the Pacific Northwest, dropped…
Not even the title of Idols of the King makes sense. Ronnie Claire Edwards’ plotless script, onstage now at Theatre Three, features an Elvis impersonator, Jack Foltyn, performing “Hound Dog,” “Burning Love” and other Presley hits between sketches about a series of characters (all played by Michael Corolla and Morgana…
