Dallas Comedy House doesn’t have a new location ready for visitors, so that won’t stop them from bringing comedy to you. While they work on renovating their third location, DCH is putting together pop-up comedy shows at different venues around their new address in Deep Ellum. When DCH closed the…
Ilknur Ozgur has boundless energy. She talks quickly and effusively, often digressing into detailed, rambling stories that somehow, someway, make their way back to a larger point. When you ask her about any of her passions (art, performance or her performance art company, Artstillery, to name a few) she lights…
From the Von Trapps to Mary Poppins, Firehouse Theatre has seen numerous musical characters grace their stage, and in May they’ll add an unexpected icon to that list: Lee Harvey Oswald. Performed for the first time ever in its entirety, audiences can watch Oswald, the musical, Friday through Sunday, May…
Comedy actor and television writer Jon Glaser says he doesn’t love the term “alternative comedy,” but when it comes to his work — especially on stage — “that’s essentially what it is.” “I’m not going to comedy clubs,” Glaser says, referring to the mini Texas tour he’s on now that…
In Remember Rudy, the latest original production from Dallas’ Ochre House Theater, the self-described “alternative theater” asks audiences some intriguing questions. “Do you believe in ghosts?” reads the musical’s promotional materials. “Do we create our ghosts? Or do our ghosts create us?” Set to make its premiere on Saturday, April…
Dallas’ Cara Mía Theatre began in 1996 and has grown into the largest Latinx theater in Texas. In their annual Teatro En Fuga: A Festival of New Works, Cara Mía will present minimally staged workshop productions of three experimental plays written by members of the company. Set to kick off…
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…
