Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. For Shooting Star, the two-person play now running at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, playwright Steven…
A couple of things you’ll likely need for the non-stop improv Megaphone Marathon at the Dallas Comedy House on Saturday: a brain full of suggestions and some sort of cheek cream to soothe your laugh-aching face bones. It’s going to be a shotgun blast of good comedy: 19 acts from…
This may be the week of big-budget musicals in Dallas theaters, but a 45-minute play with a $900 budget might be the hottest show on any stage right now. The Hand, which opened at the tiny Broken Gears Project Theatre last weekend, stars just two actors, Jeff Swearingen and Broken…
The only thing this poster for the Josh Howard Weekend Comedy Show is missing is a couple of strippers twerking their asses out at the camera. Otherwise, it’s perfect. The weekend events are a fundraiser for the Addison-based Josh Howard Foundation, which rewards middle- and high-school students’ scholastic and social-work…
A play using only a pair of actors is often called a two-hander. The Hand, the boffo season finale at Broken Gears Project Theatre, fits the description, though between the two men onstage are just three human hands. The fourth is missing in a tale that packs a powerful, dramatic…
First it was her Fosse-esque dance steps in the “Single Ladies” video. Now the digital effects and dancing for the video of Beyoncé Knowles’ new single “Run the World (Girls)” have some critics and fans buzzing about similarities to other artists’ work. With “Single Ladies” and its wrist-popping, hip-swiveling choreography,…
Saturday night’s Cirque! Anything Goes! event at Edison’s proved to be a very successful fundraiser for TCC. They raised $60,000 plus. (They’re still shy of the $100,000 they need since 60% of their budget is from donations and the Meyerson costs them $10,000 a pop to use.) The place was…
Why you no dance, Dallas? 691 people. That’s all they needed from you, Dallas. So, why you no dance! Let’s back up for a second. What are we talking about? Saturday, at 11 a.m., at the the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Largest Remote Dance Lesson was to break the…
For musical theater queens, it’s high season. Over the next couple of weeks, stages all over DFW will be jammed with big musicals, including fresh-from-Broadway road tours and revivals of great shows at local companies. Here’s a quick look at the opening night schedule: June 3: Alice Wonder, Jubilee Theatre,…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. The Bernie Madoff case hovers over Ponzi, the new play by Elaine Romero getting its…
By keeping the best character offstage, Ponzi, the new play by Elaine Romero getting its first production at Kitchen Dog Theater, perpetrates its own sly little scam on the audience. We never see “Jack,” a much talked-about investment guru who guarantees an 8.5 percent return and accepts only those clients…
Last night I laced up my bustier, put on my sequin thong and headed off to Pole Dance Class. Turns out no one really dresses that way. (No body glitter or Champagne room either. Gasp.) As a matter of fact, it was shockingly tame and I mean that in the…
More than anything, Aaron Kozak’s two-act play The Birthday Boys is about what mean little boys big men can be, even when they’re big, bad Marines. Onstage at the Texas Theatre through Sunday, May 29, the play, also directed by Kozak, is a study in what happens to men under…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. American Idol has named its latest winner, Scotty “Lockemdoors” McCreery, but don’t feel too bad…
Two blond, big-haired, big-boobed icons stare down on the action in the musicals Rock of Ages and 9 to 5. In Rock of Ages, whose Broadway tour is now at the Winspear Opera House, the guardian angel is Angelyne, the odd Mae West-like creature whose pneumatic cleavage once decorated billboards…
One Thirty Productions is selling out the house at the Bath House Cultural Center right now with the world premiere of its new comedy, The Mystery of Miz Arnette. The play by Ronnie Claire Edwards and Alan Bailey is set in the days of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, the 1930s,…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. A talking pig opens the show The Butcher, the dark new musical written and directed…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. For a playwright, getting a new play “up on its feet” is the first step…
Pablo Francisco, master of the movie-trailer-guy voice, is coming through Arlington this weekend, so his press folks generously made him available for an interview the other day. He was quite nice, and is a pretty skilled impressionist, and I suspect he works very hard to put on a show his…
Three intriguing trends emerged during a week of seeing new plays at small playhouses: the simple but stunning effect of actors’ faces lit with tiny handheld flashlights; plots about murders in dark environs; and animals as pivotal characters (a monkey in one show, a pig in another). Some strange and…
Choreographer Kelly Devine is all too aware what happens when you Google her. “I have to tell everyone at the first rehearsal of a show that I am NOT the porn star,” she says. Same name, way different career paths. These days the non-porn Kelly Devine is in big demand,…
Gotta be honest, Bobsky over on Unfair Park and I (the newest blog editor on the block) have been Indian leg wrestling for some prime pieces of art and culture blog real estate, but today, well we’ve decided to divide and conquer some big announcements. Big announcements like the release…
