When Saturday Night Live star and writer Seth Meyers moved from the Weekend Update desk that he shared with the likes of Amy Poehler and his insane, gay lover, Stefon, to NBC’s Late Night desk, he says he and his team thought the audience would gravitate toward bits and segments…
Is Hamilton overhyped? The musical created by some guy from Puerto Rico about a treasury secretary in the 1700s set to hip-hop sounds a little strange. With all the buzz around it, it seems bound to be. Dallas doesn’t seem to think so, though. We’ve been waiting for this hit…
Stan Lee might have created multiple comic book characters, but most people would agree he was a terrible stand-up comedian. That’s not the case for Dallas native Thomas Nichols, a touring comedian who just saw the second issue of his comic book, Just Us Cops, hit store shelves. Just Us…
Hamilton is one of the hottest tickets to be had, and now Dallas can fight over seats for the Tony Award-winning musical with its arrival to the Music Hall at Fair Park. From its premiere Tuesday through May 5, audiences can see firsthand the Lin-Manuel Miranda brainchild that mixes history…
Comedies always gets snubbed at award shows. They get beat at the Oscars by stuffy British films no one’s ever seen. When the Grammys airs on TV, the comedy category barely gets a mention during the recap. There used to be an annual American Comedy Awards, but it isn’t around…
If you ever found yourself midway through watching the 1999 film Cruel Intentions and said to yourself, “This teen melodrama is great, but I wish they would start singing at one another,” then you’re in for great news. Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical is bringing its staged tale of love and betrayal…
For two days, street gangs on scooters were terrorizing the sidewalks of Deep Ellum. It’s safe for shoppers to come back out, though, because comedic performer Jonathan Motney has finished filming his short comedy film Birdeo + Limet. Birdeo + Limet is a fresh take on star-crossed lovers Romeo and…
In 2011, a community group with a strong desire to promote and support theater arts got together and founded The Farmers Branch Community Theatre. Now in their eighth season, they are known as The Firehouse Theatre because, well, they perform their shows — which are mostly musicals — in a…
For the second show of their 2019 season, Second Thought Theatre will present the local premiere of Lela & Co. by Cordelia Lynn. First performed at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2015, Lynn’s play explores sex trafficking, cross-border prostitution and domestic abuse through the story of one woman. Lela is…
More than 10 years ago, the lightbulbs framing the window of 2645 Commerce St. burned for the first time, welcoming everyone to pass the red door into Dallas Comedy House. It was an unknown venture for a trio that had previously hosted comedy classes and shows in the back room…
Higher Love, a play written by novelist and playwright Germaine Shames, is based on the many love letters and relationship between poet Kahlil Gibran and his patron Mary Haskell. WingSpan Theatre Company will present a staged reading of the play at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 29-30. Gibran — a Lebanese-American poet…
Aren’t we all just a fool for love? The Classics Theatre Project’s 2019 season will kick off with Fool For Love by Sam Shepard at Fair Park’s Margo Jones Theatre. The season will also feature plays by two other iconic American playwrights, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. “It’s our all-American classics…
The Artisan Center Theater in Hurst turned into a crime scene earlier this month when burglars broke into the theater’s offices and stole thousands in cash and electronics. Richard Blair, the ACT’s executive producer and co-founder, says the burglary happened sometime in the late hours of Monday, Feb. 11, or…
Like a three-act opera filled with surprise, disappointment, multiple plot twists and, possibly a happy ending, the story of Keith Cerny’s yearlong journey from leading The Dallas Opera to the top job at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, with a stop along the way in western Canada, is replete with…
The rumors of St. Petersburg have finally arrived in Dallas. The beloved tale of the Princess Anastasia is touring for the first time and has set up shop at the Music Hall at Fair Park. But swap out Rasputin and the talking bat with communism. “We think of it as…
Watching comedy is a mostly sedentary act. Comedian Gretchen Young, who’s better known by her stage nickname “GretchYo,” has found a way to make it move in so many ways. She’s the creator of a monthly comedy show series called “Destination Unknown” that puts audiences on a bus where they…
Comedian Bert Kreischer is a happy guy, and it’s not the beer talking. “I’m extremely happy,” Kreischer says. “For the first time in this entire business, I get to do anything I want to do and not because I have to do it.” These days, the things Kreischer says he…
Kitchen Dog Theater will serve a dark-comedy cocktail when it presents the regional premiere of playwright Clare Barron’s You Got Older. The sometimes-raunchy dramedy mixes Mae’s erotic fantasies about an imaginary cowboy carrying a whip and stirs them together with a good measure of grief, creating the powerful story of…
Claudia Oshry is just a girl with no job. But of course she has nearly half a dozen jobs, all consisting of buzz words that baby boomers roll their eyes at. She’s the social media personality behind the Instagram account @girlwithnojob that began as a blog about her internship (when…
When you’re watching a local-produced sketch or improvisational comedy show, chances are that the performers, writers and other crew members aren’t getting a single cent from the box office or the club housing them. Lindsay Goldapp, the managing director of the nonprofit Stomping Ground Comedy Theater, wrote on the theater’s…
Alex Organ, Second Thought Theatre’s artistic director, became interested in British playwright Nick Payne when Dallas Theater Center presented Constellations, a play filled with big thoughts about things like string theory, multiple universes and assisted suicide. Incognito considers equally lofty ideas. Payne uses the strange but true tale of Thomas…
A constantly ringing cellphone is not really unusual. Unless it belongs to a dead man. And when the dead man is involved in an overseas bodily organ trade, has a wife, a mistress – and is also in love with you – the tangled mess grows even more bizarre. Dead…
