Performing Arts

You would think that a show like Lane Moore’s Tinder Live, where the comic scrolls through and comments on guys’ dating profiles, would be a roast-fest.

The work ethic that helped build Iliza Shlesinger’s career as a comedian didn’t stop during the pandemic, even though it made it almost impossible to perform for the crowds she’s used to seeing on tour.

If there’s anything the world needs now, it’s the understanding that we aren’t all that different. And National Anthems, part of the Elevator Project and presented by Verdigris Ensemble, will make its Texas premier on Thursday, September 9 at the Winspear Opera House (2403 Flora St.) embracing that very sentiment.

If secondhand shopping is your go-to for fine home decor, Dwell with Dignity’s Thrift Studio (175 Oak Lawn Ave.) offers just what you need.

Deep Ellum has been without a lot of things since the start of the pandemic shut down most of 2020, but one of the most noticeable absences in the neighborhood is comedy.

On the last Saturday of July, an entranced crowd circled the stage at the Cambridge Room at Dallas’ House of Blues.

If Andrew Dice Clay came on TV when you were a kid, your parents likely kicked you out of the room or swiftly changed the channel.

Comedian Andrew Dice Clay is coming to town on Tuesday to perform two shows at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub in Fort Worth. He’ll leave sometime after Wednesday with a free Cadillac.

It’s got to be hard being the sibling of a famous comedian while trying to earn comedic credibility of your own. But that’s what Tony Rock, younger brother of Chris Rock, has done with his career.

Theatre Arlington is about to undergo a dramatic change.

Mimicking the great live radio plays of the 1930s and ’40s, Pegasus Theatre (521 E. Lawther Drive) uses their own RadioVizion technique of storytelling with era-appropriate microphones and costumes and a foley artist creating live sound effects throughout.

They say it’s all happening at the zoo, and the Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park (650 S. R.L. Thornton Fwy.) have given us all the adorable animals to gawk at this week as they welcome a baby alpaca, two cheetahs and a baby giraffe.

Pocket Sandwich Theatre, the raucous, popcorn-tossing melodrama theater and late-night entertainment showcase space, will move to its third home just shy of its 40th anniversary. Jeff Vance, director for the theater, said the owners of the block of stores on Mockingbird Lane where it operates decided not to renew Pocket…

It wasn’t that long ago that women would be institutionalized for being disagreeable among the (obviously sexist) men in their communities.

Professional wrestling’s popularity worldwide has lasted for decades, but there’s been a debate growing recently among fans about whether or not it can be considered performance art. But even those who don’t “pay-per-view” wrestling as a competitive sport can still appreciate it as a kitschy artform. Audiences will have a chance to judge…

Jaylan Ford dances every day. Not in a dance class or privately in front of a mirror, like many casual dancers. He dances out in the open, for everyone to see.

If you shush your friends when an obscure song comes on at the bar just to impress them with your knowledge of who it is, when it came out, its track number and the inspiration behind it, you probably annoy your friends.

Bill Maher loves red states. Not their politicians, necessarily, and certainly not laws like the Heartbeat Bill (“You can have an abortion as long as you know you don’t need one” he says. “That is so Texas”).

The announcement of the cast list for WaterTower Theatre’s upcoming production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time drew quite a few angry comments from its online followers.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] is sort of like a humorous Cliff Notes version of Shakespeare’s entire library of work.

The loss of the Dallas Comedy House (DCH) — the Deep Ellum improv comedy theater that got swallowed up by the pandemic last August — was swift and sudden, but a new set of owners stepped in with plans to open the theater almost one year later.

Dallas’s Over the Bridge Arts presents FIRST DRAFT, a two-part live theater experience. In the first half, artists from Echo Theatre including Kateri Cale, Chad Cline and Leslie Patrick will read opening scenes from selected entries to Big Shout Out 3, an international new play contest for “women+” playwrights.