Kitchen Dog Theater’s Quarter-Life Crisis

If you’re planning to attend a production of Steve Yockey’s Blackberry Winter or The Thrush & the Woodpecker from Kitchen Dog Theater, plug in directions to Undermain Theatre.  For more than a decade, Kitchen Dog Theater was housed in the bright blue building on McKinney Avenue known as The McKinney Avenue…

Show Boat, Race Relations and the N-Word at the Dallas Opera

The well-heeled crowd at Winspear Opera House this Friday is going to get the chance to be offended by Dallas Opera’s production of Show Boat. The first-ever opening night audience on Broadway 90 years ago may have had a little jolt at seeing an all-black chorus, including women, onstage as…

The Fighter and the Kid Struck Comic Gold by Accident

Fighter and the Kid is a popular podcast with a rabid fan base. The fighter is Brendan Schaub, a mixed martial artist who fought several times as a heavyweight in the UFC. The kid is longtime comedian and actor Bryan Callen. Unedited and uncensored, the two friends riff on fighting…

The Katydids’ Caitlin Barlow Talks Teachers

Improvised comedy is experiencing another renaissance of sorts thanks to television and for once, I’m not talking about another reincarnation of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”  The TV Land sitcom “Teachers” about a group of barely functional educators who let their personal lives bleed into their work came from the…

Comedian Ithamar Enriquez Has a Lot to Say About Saying Nothing

When comedian Ithamar Enriquez walks on to a stage, his presence commands an audience’s attention. He doesn’t capture it by yelling obscenities into a microphone to punctuate his jokes or screaming like a banshee to exorcise some deep seeded emotional pain that brings some comics to a stage.  Enriquez never…