November is early for valentines, but at Theatre Too love is in the air with It’s Only Life, a 30-song revue by composer John Bucchino. Performed by five attractive young singer-actors, accompanied lovingly on grand piano by Terry Dobson, the 100-minute show begins as a look into quirks of the…
The new rock-and-roll musical is called On the Eve. Actor Michael Federico wrote it with his friends Seth and Shawn Magill, the husband-and-wife team who head up East Dallas band Home by Hovercraft. It’s about Marie Antoinette, sort of, and you can see its debut, in a pay-what-you-can staged reading,…
Back in March, Elaine had a Giant announcement on Unfair Park: The full Dallas Theater Center’s lineup from artistic director Kevin Moriarty, which included the Michael John LaChiusa musical Giant (based on the book by Sybille Pearson). Well, another Insert-Huge-Adjective-Here announcement just-in-the-in-box: (h/t Robert) The DTC’s officially announced the cast…
Have a buck? You could see a play tonight. And a good one at that. The Ochre House theater, Matthew Posey’s hothouse of experimental work, is doing a pay-what-you-can performance of its latest, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of Frida Kahlo. Actress Elizabeth Evans, looking eerily like the artist, plays…
You may remember him from his aborted run for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination, from his fight-provoking confrontational 2004 Austin set when he followed the political bombast of Alex Jones or from the riots that occasionally ensue at his shows when he touches a particularly sensitive nerve in his audiences…
Seeing any show at Matthew Posey’s 40-seat Ochre House is a bit like watching a circus unfold in a walk-in closet. So much happens in so little square footage that you come out with your head buzzing, wondering why a big theater like the Wyly doesn’t use its vast expanse…
With her dark unibrow and shadow of upper lip fuzz, Dallas actress Elizabeth Evans looks eerily like the title character in the Ochre House’s latest production, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of Frida Kahlo. Her resemblance to the iconic Kahlo isn’t why Ochre House founder and artistic director Matthew Posey…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Once again, Irving’s Lyric Stage has found gold in an old, rarely done American musical…
There is a fiddler and there is a roof in Rags, the 1986 musical getting a splendid revival at Irving’s Lyric Stage. But those aren’t the only things it has in common with that other piece of American musical theater featuring Russian Jews belting show tunes. The books for Rags…
The smaller roles and the actors who play them are the reasons to see To Kill a Mockingbird, now playing at the Wyly Theatre in a Dallas Theater Center production. Anastasia Muñoz, playing both the judgmental “Miss Stephanie” and the rape-accuser Mayella Ewell, is so good you probably won’t realize…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. For years we’ve waited for veteran Dallas actress Sally Soldo to get a solid starring…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Oh, girl, we gotta talk. Actually, we gotta be quiet while Haley Walker talks to…
Two good Dallas actresses are getting their due in a pair of shows obsessed with courtship, marriage and the whole damn thing called love. One play will make you feel good about all that. The other won’t, but it does afford its star, Sally Soldo, the sweetest role she’s had…
Dallas actor and painter Aidan Langford rolls like a rock star. He has a driver to chauffeur him to and from the theaters where he’s performing. His agent is busy fielding offers for acting and modeling gigs. At home, he has someone cooking and serving the meals he likes. Being…
Have a hot idea for a play? Start typing. Deadlines are fast approaching for several local playwriting competitions and not a few national ones. Scripts as short as 10 minutes are wanted by some contests. Others offer large cash prizes for full-length plays. The secret to winning one of these?…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Thanks to some fine acting, the dry civics class taught by Jon Marans’ play The…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. To see the next generation of hot theater artists in Dallas, try to catch one…
What would an Uptown Players production be without a naked man in it? Its core audience, gay middle-aged men who flock to Uptown’s gay-themed musicals and plays, seems to appreciate it. And really, who doesn’t? More nudes is good news. The actor in the altogether in The Temperamentals is Gregory…
For Spring Awakening to work its magic, it needs young performers who look hot, sing hotter and radiate sexuality with the heat of a thousand suns. At Addison’s WaterTower Theatre, where the first local production of the Tony-winning musical is now running, the temperature’s rising. It’s exciting to see this…
In a big cast of hot young actors, two of the stars of WaterTower Theatre’s current production of Spring Awakening are sizzling standouts: Adam Garst, a 2010 Baylor theater grad in only his second role on a local stage, and Kayla Carlyle, who’s been acting and singing professionally in Dallas…
We’re back here with another installment of our local comedy series, First Times Are Funny. This time around we’ve put local Andy Franklin on the hotseat — partly in anticipation of tonight’s Stand-Upish Evening with Franklin, Jude Sutton and Dante Martinez at the Dallas Comedy House, and partly because we…
If there’s anyone we’d like to see be funny for a continuous 48 hours, it’s Dallas actor and improv comic Jeff Swearingen. He’s a funny guy on and off a stage, but especially on. And starting at 8 p.m., Friday, October 7, he’s going to try to be funny and…
