We’re beginning to suspect that Dallas Theater Center’s Kevin Moriarty has a secret plan to stage all the plays that put our teeth on edge. Besides all the Shakespeare he loves doing (they have King Lear coming up at DTC this season), he added Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat…
All’s fair in love, war and the quest for the Shiva, or at least that’s the takeaway from the FX’s series The League. The semi-improvised comedy focuses on the dysfunctional lives of six friends who spend more time sabotaging each other than actually learning about their fantasy football rosters. Season…
My kid was being a handful last night — or, as Louis CK would put it, an asshole. He was being an asshole, screaming indiscriminately at some hour that looked really blurry on the clock. So there I was, back in bed after sedating the asshole, when I saw an…
We’re in the middle of an aisle in Half Price Books on Northwest Highway, and Steve Jay Crabtree, the comic whose multiple personalities grace the Pocket Sandwich Theater this weekend, is cycling in and out of his Dysfunctional Divas like a patient with multiple personalities. Customers stop and browse book shelves…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Steven Jay Crabtree’s Dysfunctional Divas at Pocket Sandwich TheatreHey Judds, if you’re thinking of making a comeback, stop. Just stop. Sound advice from Trayla Park, lip-syncing super diva and just one of Steven Jay…
In Freud’s Last Session, the smart one-act now on view at Theatre Three, novelist and Oxford don C.S. Lewis utters this snappy line: “The greatest problem with Christianity is Christians.” It sounds like something he might have written. The play uses a great many lines that Lewis, most famous for…
Since the moments after Monday night’s debacle in Seattle, we’ve been looking forward to the replacement refs — those scab referees who so woefully stepped in for the unioned pros in the NFL’s first few weeks — to get the pop-culture treatment. I was thinking an ensemble screwball comedy next…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Collin Moulton at Hyena’s in Fort WorthA finalist in two kick-ass comedy festivals, Gilda’s Laugh Fest in Grand Rapids and The Skull Fest in Atlanta, Collin Moulton brings his comedy chops to the stage…
Is that a handgun that I see before me? It is. In Shakespeare Dallas’ just-opened production of Macbeth, the Scottish and Norwegian troops wear modern camo and fire pistols and automatic weapons. Not as visually graceful as clanging swords perhaps, but going bang-bang sure could shorten the battle scenes. If…
In honor of The Heckler Show this Thursday at Dallas Comedy House, we thought we’d compile a video list of asshats who think they know better than the comedians on stage. No, dumb asses, we aren’t laughing with you. But you are entertaining…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Frisco Comedy FestivalThis three-day event runs from Thursday to Saturday at the Frisco Discovery Center and features everything from improv to stand up to comedy workshops. Thursday even features a comedy contest, like Battle…
Honey Boo Boo, reality TV’s hillbilly kiddie diva, has nothing on Puddles Johnson, a tiny titan in the world of glitzy tots with fake tans and snap-in flipper teeth. As Puddles and her adorable rival, Chevrolet Corningfield, battle it out to become “Miss Alabama Haystack” and “Miss Texas Twinkle,” their…
Dallas Theater Center’s next main event sounds like a knockout. Or, more accurately, it hopes to bring the “white heat.” Kristoffer Diaz’ Pulitzer-finalist play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, opening October 19 for 26 performances at the Wyly Theatre, is set in the world of professional wrestling, where “white…
Mitch West is a local comedian whose one-man show, “No, But Seriously,” played at the Dallas Comedy House this past weekend. I sat down with him at Angry Dog for some much needed carbs and peppered him with questions a couple of days before seeing the show. Here’s what I…
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Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Mitch West at the Dallas Comedy House benefiting the DREAM Fund Comedian Mitch West will perform his half drama, half comedy show (we refuse to say dramedy) “No, But Seriously” this Saturday at the Dallas…
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It gives us pleasure to confess that Frank Loesser’s snappy show tune “Big D” (little-A, double-L-A-S) helps spell success for two productions that just opened in local theaters. The song is a by-god, knee-slapping showstopper as performed by Catherine Carpenter Cox and Alex Organ in the second act of Lyric…
See also: 11 Must-Do Parties For Fashion’s Night Out In Dallas If you’re like a lot of people I know, you’d love to go hear a classical music performance now and again. But saying you’d like to go hear some art music and actually remembering to do so are two…
See also: Holy War Horse There’s a Lot of Great Theater Opening in Dallas in the Next Week The annual fried chicken and loud cackling session known as the DFW Critics Forum luncheon was lighter on both grease and arguing this year. The group reached unusually strong consensus on menu…
See also: 12 Awesome Things To Do In Dallas This Weekend, September 6 to 9Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. We’ve been doing this since Thursday, September 6, 2012, so we’ve really got it down. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Is the recent surge in political…
What a trip! Stage West’s production of Around the World in 80 Days is featherweight comedy that floats along nicely, thanks to the steady breeze stirred by the constant motion of its five hard-charging actors. Director Jerry Russell keeps the pace frantic throughout this immensely amusing farce, lest we notice…
