On an Instagram post Thursday afternoon, comedian Amy Schumer told her followers and fans that she must postpone her Texas shows. In the photo she posted alongside the note, Schumer, who was supposed to perform at Winspear Opera House on Thursday night, is in a hospital bed. In the post…
Tricia Wood prefers to move forward in life and not look back. Even though Power House of Dance, the studio she taught at for 17 years, unexpectedly closed recently, she doesn’t spend a lot of time discussing her thoughts and feelings about its closure. That’s not making light of the…
She’s been a boozer, a user and a loser, an anthropomorphic Persian cat and TV’s most beloved homemaker. And now she’s an Ernie Kovacs Award winner. Actress, writer and comedian Amy Sedaris will be the next recipient of the Ernie Kovacs Award at the Dallas VideoFest 31 and the first…
This might come as shocking news, but singer Ariana Grande and comedian Pete Davidson broke up. You probably haven’t heard anything about it and might need a moment to process your disbelief. When entertainers are involved in a breakup, it’s typical to see them work through the sadness by expressing…
Sue Sylvester would be horrified at Jane Lynch’s fight for the arts in schools and communities. Or so we think. Lynch, who played Sylvester, the musical-hating cheerleading coach in the hit show Glee, is hosting Dallas Summer Musical’s Best of Broadway Gala. Lynch is joined by none other than Matthew Morrison, who…
In roughly six months, moving trucks will be loaded with the tables, costumes and autographed pictures that made up Dallas Comedy House as it moves away from its second location in Deep Ellum. The trucks won’t be driving far however, as they need to go only one street over, to…
We live in an age that’s ripe for biting satire fueled by a sea of bottomless negativity. It seems like it would be hard not to just spend an hour on stage yelling into the mic about how much things suck. Comedian Tom Papa makes the art of positivity look…
The first time you have sex will most likely be a memorable one. The anticipation, the awkwardness, the fear, the excitement — all of these emotions make even the slightest details of the night crystallize in your brain. My First Time, a comedy being performed at Theatre Too one night…
For the last 30 years, your television has been able to access at least one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, whether it’s a rerun, a DVD or an unauthorized upload to the internet from the show’s original seven-season run. The critically acclaimed comedy creation concocted by writer and comedian Joel Hodgson,…
Youth group teenagers laughed and chatted while wrenching their feet out of a trail of mud, freshly stomped in by the hundreds who’d come before them. They step onto the pliant wet wood porch of what appears to be a cabin in the woods. Volunteers shout warnings for liability’s sake…
Simon & Garfunkel’s folk-rock sound was emblematic of much of the music of the 1960s. They made five albums in five years filled with chart-topping hits. They were invited to perform at Woodstock, the seminal musical event of the century. The duo declined because they were “too busy.” The Simon…
At the beginning of One Tough Cookie, it’s easy to think it will be a lighthearted comedy about a Girl Scout trying to get a prestigious badge. But as a battle of wills draws out between an angry, old suburbanite, Martin Sinise, and a Girl Scout willing to go to…
It’s about 40 minutes after 7 p.m. and the Beyond Belief Dance Company dance moms are wondering where owner and director Justin Johnson is. “You know he always has to make an entrance,” one mom says to the other. Johnson is fashionably late to his own party celebrating the opening…
There’s more than a twinge of excitement in comedian Tom Arnold’s voice as he talks a mile a minute about his adventures with some of America’s most powerful political leaders. They’re even more impressive to hear when you realize he’s not a political comedian. Even Arnold doesn’t seem to understand…
You’ve already missed your chance to see Piff the Magic Dragon perform live unless you can afford to drop everything and go on a road trip to his next gig. But don’t worry, we’ve found the next best thing. The Las Vegas comedy magician, who performs regularly at The Flamingo,…
Comedy is hard. Musical comedy is harder, much harder. Musical comedy requires great timing and delivery for the comedy part. The other half requires a dancer’s build, a strong voice and hours of sweaty rehearsals and run-throughs. Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino, the hosts of Earwolf’s musical comedy podcast Off…
The new comedy film The Oath would sound like a totally unthinkable dystopian world at any other time in history. Except now. The Oath, written, directed and starring Ike Barinholtz, who came to town for an advance screening and Q&A last month at The Angelika before its limited release Friday,…
When the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall formed back in the 1980s in a weekday slot at a Toronto rock club, comedy troupes were a rare commodity. Now thanks in part to The Kids in the Hall’s massive rise as a comedic touchstone, more of them…
It’s hard to know where to start a discussion about Neal Brennan’s career with the man himself. In fact, the idea makes him laugh. “I didn’t really have an end goal,” Brennan says. “I guess I always wanted to be a popular comedian. I’ve always thought that’s the coolest thing,…
The sounds of children’s amazement and the adults’ laughter rise in mixed harmony and respectfully fades as the man onstage focuses on his next illusion. The magician’s broad smile evokes the confident demeanor that the crowd is right to trust in him, to believe him, but his eyes tell the…
On Thursday night Dallas Comedy House will host a sex education class. The instructor — while not certified by the state of Texas, or any state, or actually any medical board real or imaginary — is described as having read, “dozens of pamphlets and blog posts on sex and sexual…
Starting Saturday night at Dallas Comedy House, audiences will get their first chance to see the newest all-female sketch show, Self-Aware? I Hardly Know Her. The show is a high-energy character-study filtered through a comedic lens; a non-stop revolving door of costume changes, original characters, and razor-sharp jokes. “A lot…
