As strains of Willie Nelson’s plaintive tune Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer) strum in the dark, lights come up on an almost bare three quarter thrust stage. Tad off center left, a tall, raw-boned woman with a full mane of tawny hair rears back in a grey utilitarian rolling office chair behind a … Continue reading
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Join me at the theater? Schedule Updates
Come with me to the theater? Play productions are beginning to sprout like colorful weeds all over the region. Here’s what’s opening soon or playing now: THE EXECUTIONER’S SONS by Catherine Bush Directed by Terri Ferguson Runs February 5-19, 2011 Echo Theatre Bath House Cultural Center Dallas TX http://www.echotheatre.org http://www.bathhousecultural.org The Executioner’s Sons, Photo by … Continue reading
Attired to laugh @ Theatre Arlington
Theatre Arlington’s clever folks realize that January’s slump is the perfect reason to mount a rollicking romantic production to usher in the New Year. In Don’t Dress For Dinner, directed by regional actor and DFW Theatre Critics Forum honored director Andy Baldwin, they found the ideal vehicle to launch 2011 in fine style. A cheery … Continue reading
About this This at Stage West
In his 2009 New York Times review, Charles Isherwood wrote that with her play This, Melissa James Gibson “graduates into the theatrical big leagues with this beautifully conceived, confidently executed and wholly accessible work.” Please consider this. Take some of the DFW region’s most talented, experienced, versatile actors and cast them as a tight 2011 … Continue reading
Love Cankers @ Second Thought Theatre
The Sound of Music. You Can’t Take It With You. Fuddy Meers. Steel Magnolias. None of these plays have anything to do with Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing), other than the fact that they get presented inside performance halls (usually) and have actors in them pretending to be other people who create imaginary … Continue reading
Dr. Maya Angelou, World Sage: Guest Feature by Buster Spiller
Ancient stoics viewed sages as individuals with the ability to rise above the human condition, not seeking love or wisdom because they accepted love in its purest state and were already inherently wise. Their happiness wasn’t derived from the external trappings of life that most seek like wealth, adoration, success, fame, and glory but in … Continue reading
“For the love of one’s country….” at WaterTower Theatre
“It’s incidents like this that does put tourists off of Ireland.” So whines lazy slacker Donny in Martin McDonagh’s celebrated award-winning black Irish comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore, featured main stage at WaterTower Theatre through February 6, 2011. Hard to disagree with him after the play’s action strews voluminous gobs of blood, gore and severed … Continue reading
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