“What do you see?” More of a probing, raw demand than a question, the opening line in John Logan’s 2009 two actor bio-drama about American abstract painter Mark Rothko, delivered by the artist at lights up, his back to audience, demands full attention. It should rivet an audience’s eyes to the huge blank canvas upstage … Continue reading »
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Holy Hat-Tricks: DTC’s Jumpin’ Jehosaphat “Joseph”
Need someone to pull a rabbit out of a hat or turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse? Stage director Joel Ferrell is your man. I am no great fan of magic acts. But what I experienced Friday night June 24 at Dallas’ Wylie Theatre was a feat of pure, transcendent magic. Bless director/choreographer … Continue reading »
Carnage Unfettered in DTC’s Mosh Pit
“We are not fucking Neanderthals!” exclaims the character Veronica in Dallas Theater Center’s production of Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage”, running through June 17 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Hard to tell they aren’t Neanderthals from watching the belabored, lowest common denominator production piloted by Associate Artistic Director Joel Ferrell, where relationships unfold with the … Continue reading »
Next Falls; Carnage’s God Rises at DTC
“You won’t see me in a thong on a float, but I’m still a fag.” When the most grounded, believable, fully developed character in a play delivers a glib line like that, calculated to elicit a laugh, there’s not much hope for the other characters in the show. Couched in a smug 1980’s “it’s naughty … Continue reading »
Where Life Is Beautiful: DTC’s Cabaret
Director/ choreographer Joel Ferrell just unleashed a hair-raising Cabaret that provokes intense primal response, entertains with original creative interpretation and inspires somber reflection about man’s capacity for evil. Roiling with multi-sexual erotica and drug-laced hedonism, Dallas Theater Center’s production smokes with choreographed throbbing, pulsating groins (male, female, tranny) while revealing fascism’s gain of insidious domination … Continue reading »
Is your life a cabaret? Tickets awarded!
Win free tickets to Dallas Theater Center‘s production of Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret, opening night Friday 4.29.2011 at the Wyly Theater in Dallas. Three pairs to give away! First three people to answer the following Cabaret questions correctly, with responses posted on my facebook status announcement, win. Which star of television’s Hogan’s Heroes was featured … Continue reading »
Playing Foote-sie: Stage West & Dallas Theater Center
North Texas’ iconic Horton Foote Festival established itself on solid ground this past two weekends with entirely different productions opening at Stage West in Fort Worth and at the Dallas Theater Center’s Wyly Theatre. Running the full gamut from intimate to epic, these productions demonstrate eloquently why Foote’s work is worthy of a celebration festival … Continue reading »
reasons to be pleased: The Beauty Plays 2010
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Want to bet? Hard truths. Interpersonal dysfunction. Devastating betrayal. Neil LaBute explores relationship abuse overlaid with a heavy dose of misogyny from a variety of perspectives in three of his plays presented as a trilogy by the Dallas Theater Center. The first … Continue reading »
