“I grew up in Austin, so Dallas was always the great, big, scary city,” Sean Kent says over the phone. I called him up to talk about his return to the big southern state, where he’ll do five nights of shows this weekend. “I love Hyena’s,” he says. “There’s just…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Sean Kent at Hyena’s in Fort Worth “I write a fuckload ’cause otherwise I get bored,” says Sean Kent. “I don’t wanna say the same stuff every year.” You hear that, guys? A…
Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Richard Lewis at the Addison Improv When Richard Lewis gets on stage, you really have no idea what you’re in for. He prepares nothing, writes nothing down. And it can be great. But…
Great idea by Lyric Stage producer Steven Jones to open his revival of the grand old musical 1776 during campaign season. If only more of those pesky “undecided voters” could see it. What they would witness first and foremost is another of Lyric’s spectacular productions of a rarely done piece…
What is the one thing you’d expect to see in a play about the world of professional televised wrestling? And what is missing from The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which just opened in a passive-aggressive production by Dallas Theater Center at the Wyly Theatre? That would be wrestling. There…
“I’m in a really, really cool, weird zone.” Well no shit, Richard Lewis. I’m on the phone, talking, but mostly listening, to the veteran comedian, long-time stand-up and favorite on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. I can feel the self-loathing through the speaker, and if I’m not laughing, I’m nodding…
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:…
