This weekend, one of the country’s funniest foodies stops in at the American Airlines Center. Aziz Ansari brings his latest comedy tour, Modern Romance, to town at 8 p.m. Saturday night and according to him it’s so dope, he wants to give the tickets away. “I think this is my…
It’s rare that one of the more difficult categories to choose for the DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards is “Best New Play or Musical.” But with Dallas Theater Center leading the charge and the smaller companies rising to the occasion, this year in Dallas/Fort Worth theater featured numerous new plays…
At the biggest comedy event in Dallas/Fort Worth this year, three names on the bill are a little bit more local than the rest. Stand-up comedians Christopher Darden, Josh Johnson and Clint Werth have been touring the local clubs, bars and any other places that will let them set up…
Dark Circles Contemporary Dance has already scheduled an additional performance this weekend. Saturday night sold out quickly. The season premiere of one of Dallas’ top emerging companies expects full houses at the Sanders Theatre in Fort Worth. Originally founded in Seoul, South Korea in 2010, DCCD moved state-side in 2013,…
By Monica Hinman How to deal with the trials and travails of life? Anxiety about the future, the disappointments of today and the scars from yesterday can be ameliorated with a Xanax or a bottle of wine, a little shopping or a gallon of ice cream. Or if you are…
If therapy has ever been in vogue, it started somewhere after the mid-20th century. When Chrisopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy first premiered in New York City in 1981, this idea of therapy was almost trendy. A hip socialite might ask, “who’s your therapist?” directly after asking about the designer of your…
When Teresa Coleman-Walsh, founder and artistic director of TeCo Theatrical Productions, received a submission to the company’s annual New Play competition entitled Three Guys in a Bed, she immediately wanted to help bring it to the stage. But the play was far too edgy –think full frontal nudity– for the fairly…
Drinking and comedy have always gone together like peanut butter, jelly and soft, white bread with the crusts carefully removed. Comedy club drinks, however, aren’t the tastiest or most reasonably priced concoctions. It’s part and parcel for the business and not just for the club’s bottom line. Sometimes all it…
“The Dallas DanceFest is very timely. Dance is surging forward…and it’s exciting because there are more emerging dance companies than ever before,” says Gayle Halperin, Vice President of Development for the Dance Council of North Texas (DCNT) and Chair of the Dallas DanceFest Committee (DDF). Returning after a 10-year hiatus,…
Dan Domenech wears jeans and a casual blue hooded sweater as he sips a root beer. Standing over 6 feet tall, it’s easier to imagine him dribbling a basketball than wearing fishnets and eyeliner. His dark brown eyes light up in sheepish amusement when he admits that he walks around…
For centuries, white male narrators have dominated storytelling. We’re talking everyone from Homer’s Odysseus to Shakespeare’s Hamlet to America’s Rick Perry. Western cultural mythology is steeped in white male hegemony. And at the center of most of those stories is a tricky little devil known as ego. Whether characters are…
In May, Brad McEntire and Audacity Theatre Lab brought eight artists and eight solo shows to town and stacked them all together inside the Margo Jones Theatre. For the first festival of its kind here, Dallas Solo Fest went well. So well, in fact, that McEntire has devised a quarterly…
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, the comedians who make up the musical comedy powerhouse of Garfunkel and Oates, are living the dream of every guitar-ukulele musical comedy duo. They have three top-selling raunchy comedy duets. They have their own TV show on IFC that Lindhome describes as a “millennial Laverne…
It’s a sunny day in May, and I see Michael Urie’s toothy smile before I’ve even opened the glass door to the City Performance Hall. He’s home from New York City for the weekend, quietly hosting press conferences before heading to Austin for a wedding. The tour of his hit…
If you could jump in your “comedy time machine” (a time machine that can only be used for the purposes of viewing important moments in comedy groups’ histories and therefore can’t be used to go back and…I don’t know… stop Hitler) to view the history of Locked Out Comedy and…
The Dallas Theater Center’s version of Les Miserables has turned quite a few heads for its contemporary take on the classic tale of the French Revolution. Director Liesl Tommy’s politically charged update has earned comparisons to Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. The musical when placed in a modern…
“Picture it, Dallas, Texas.” The wind-ups in Candy Barr’s Last Dance at Theatre Three are something worthy of Sophia Petrillo. And perhaps The Golden Girls is the best foundation for understanding a comedy about aging women, sitting around a kitchen table, laughing over scandalous memories. Despite the popularity of that…
When musicals make the trek from the Great White Way to the silver screen, it’s likely they’ll find a way back to the stage. There is no better publicity than a two-and-a-half-hour blockbuster film. Currently in the Arts District, the Dallas Theater Center mounts a reinterpretation of Les Misérables —…
“Picture it, Dallas, Texas.” The wind-ups in Candy Barr’s Last Dance at Theatre Three are something worthy of Sophia Petrillo. And perhaps The Golden Girls is the best foundation for understanding a comedy about aging women, sitting around a kitchen table, laughing over scandalous memories. Despite the popularity of that…
The Chinese zodiac may indicate that 2014 is the Year of the Horse, but on August 22nd, Year of the Rooster will take the stage at the Wyly Theatre. Upstart Production’s performance of the play inaugurates a six-part series that AT&T Performing Arts Center has dubbed The Elevator Project. The…
When musicals make the trek from the Great White Way to the silver screen, it’s likely they’ll find a way back to the stage. There is no better publicity than a 21/2 hour blockbuster film. Currently in the Arts District, the Dallas Theater Center mounts a reinterpretation of Les Miserables…
She was tiny. She was blonde. Her green eyes looked into your soul and shook it silly. The curves of her hips were pathways to pleasure. If she wiggled her butt, then it was all over. You were hooked. Candy Barr got you. This is the legend of infamous Dallas…
