Editor’s note: We sent Jane the Intern to experience the Dallas Comedy House’s Level 1 Improv class. Here’s her report. The sweaty-faced young man to my left turns to me and yells, “Tell me seven things you love about driving!” “Aaaaaaah!” screams the entire group, scooping their voices and arms…
Every Wednesday night at the Graff Chevrolet Ultra Lounge in Grand Prairie, Vince Vance and his crew host a Komic Kontest, searching for the funniest of the funny in Texas. Comedians get on stage and compete to win $50 and the opening spot for the next week’s show. The Lounge,…
The limits of time, space and geography seem to fall away in Perro y Sangre (“dog and blood”), a thrilling blend of music, drama, flamenco and sex that opened for a four-night run at the 40-seat Ochre House theater last night. Written and directed by Ochre House founder Matthew Posey,…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. DeRay Davis at Addison Improv Warning: DeRay Davis is not the for easily offended. A Comedy Central favorite, DeRay grew up so poor, his Freddy Krueger Halloween costume was three spoons taped to…
“Every time I sing this song, I hope it’s the last time,” says the weary troubadour played by Bruce DuBose at the start of Undermain Theatre’s stunning production of An Iliad, a condensed retelling of Homer’s epic poem of the Trojan War. As conceived by co-authors Lisa Peterson and Denis…
Oh, dear, oh, dear. From the sublime experience of An Iliad to the stumbling and mumbling of amateurs in Ugly People at Fort Worth’s Pantagleize Theatre Company. Everything you shouldn’t do on a stage they do, from upstaging each other to forgetting lines to engaging in the kind of shout-y…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Louis CK at the Majestic Theatre When you hear “red hair,” “pasty gut” and “so funny I almost hyper-ventilated” in the same sentence, there’s only one name that comes to mind: Louis mother-fucking…
Ah, autumn. The leaves are falling, and so are the costumes in Uptown Players’ adults-only musical Hello Again. Now steaming up the Kalita Humphreys Theater, composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa’s singing humpfest, getting its local premiere, shows off some of Dallas musical theater’s finest voices and the bodies that hold them…
Louis C.K. plays two shows the Majestic on Saturday, and since life is looking forward or looking back, we’re going to look forward to the hell out of this all week. Today: Emma Stone offers to fellate Lucky Louie…
Politics as an extension of reality television isn’t so farfetched. That’s part of the premise of Ugly People, an interactive comedy by Fort Worth playwright James Venhaus that opens October 18 at the 100-seat Pantagleize Theatre. Two candidates — Scott, a sincere politician trying to do right by his community,…
Louis C.K. plays two shows the Majestic on Saturday, and since life is looking forward or looking back, we’re going to look forward to the hell out of this all week. Today: Louis on the Opie and Anthony Show. Never listen to the Opie and Anthony show? Yeah, me neither…
Louis C.K. plays two shows the Majestic on Saturday, and since life is looking forward or looking back, we’re going to look forward to the hell out of this all week. Today: Louis eulogizes George Carlin…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Dustin Ybarra at Hyena’s in Fort Worth Will he be high? I hope he’ll be high. He’ll be high. A 2009 finalist for Funniest Dallas Comic, Dustin Ybarra has performed at the NBC Diversity Comedy…
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. But are they worth a looky? They’ll close before Halloween, but the creepy-kooky-not-really-spooky comedies The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful and The Addams Family Musical have set up camp, in the clutch-the-pearls sense, on two local stages. What frightful disappointments…
Steven Jay Crabtree performs his one-man comedy act Dysfunctional Divas the first weekend of every month at Pocket Sandwich Theatre. I went to check out the show after meeting the ladies a few days ago. It was quite divalicious. See also: The Six Faces of Steven Jay Crabtree: A Chat with…
It’s all Louis CK all the time at Mixmaster HQ, with comedy’s leading schlub set to hit Dallas next weekend. Today, though, our Google Alert brings us sad, sad news: Louie, CK’s hit FX show, is going on hiatus until 2014. From The Wrap:…
We’re beginning to suspect that Dallas Theater Center’s Kevin Moriarty has a secret plan to stage all the plays that put our teeth on edge. Besides all the Shakespeare he loves doing (they have King Lear coming up at DTC this season), he added Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat…
All’s fair in love, war and the quest for the Shiva, or at least that’s the takeaway from the FX’s series The League. The semi-improvised comedy focuses on the dysfunctional lives of six friends who spend more time sabotaging each other than actually learning about their fantasy football rosters. Season…
My kid was being a handful last night — or, as Louis CK would put it, an asshole. He was being an asshole, screaming indiscriminately at some hour that looked really blurry on the clock. So there I was, back in bed after sedating the asshole, when I saw an…
We’re in the middle of an aisle in Half Price Books on Northwest Highway, and Steve Jay Crabtree, the comic whose multiple personalities grace the Pocket Sandwich Theater this weekend, is cycling in and out of his Dysfunctional Divas like a patient with multiple personalities. Customers stop and browse book shelves…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar.Steven Jay Crabtree’s Dysfunctional Divas at Pocket Sandwich TheatreHey Judds, if you’re thinking of making a comeback, stop. Just stop. Sound advice from Trayla Park, lip-syncing super diva and just one of Steven Jay…
In Freud’s Last Session, the smart one-act now on view at Theatre Three, novelist and Oxford don C.S. Lewis utters this snappy line: “The greatest problem with Christianity is Christians.” It sounds like something he might have written. The play uses a great many lines that Lewis, most famous for…
