Dallas audiences experienced a real stage delight when 2009’s multiple Tony Award winner Billy Elliot The Musical stomped, pirouetted and sashayed its energized, heart-warming way across the Winspear Opera House stage June 8-19. Sometimes touring show casts seem to perform by rote or sleepwalk their roles. The press night performance of Billy Elliott June 9, … Continue reading
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Broads in Burka: CTD’s Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
UPDATE: Extended run –through July 17, 2011 After all, most women – frivolous, vain, superficial creatures that they are – exist simply as purely decorative amusement for men’s fickle carnal desire, waste lots of money on uncomfortable shoes and lingerie and worry non-stop about selecting the proper shades of lipstick and fingernail polish, right? Alan … Continue reading
Chicago-style Chill @ Bass Hall
Get your chill on with Chicago at Bass Hall: a steam-punkish (?) moody 1920’s Chicago meets smooth jazz supper club presentation. Based on the 1996 City Center Encores! Series concert-style revival of the 1975 Kander and Ebb Musical Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville, the Broadway Specials national tour of Chicago thrusts its razzle-dazzle of gyrating hips … Continue reading
DUI Intensive: Theatre Arlington
Reviewed by R. Andrew Aguilar on 6/12/2011 Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer prize winning play How I Learned to Drive is a gut-wrenching, powerful exploration of human manipulation that can burn into the mind and soul of any audience. The play focuses primarily on the issue of pedophilia, but enmeshes it with the problems of family life, … Continue reading
Lucky at Love: Circle Theatre’s “Marvin’s Room”
Review submitted by Lauren Smart So few plays can handle the issues of disease and death with both humor and sincerity like Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room. Circle Theatre’s current production of this heartfelt script running through June 25 treats the material with the utmost respect, making it an enjoyable and touching experience. Clare Floyd DeVries’ … Continue reading
Text in any Theater? Just Don’t….
Three hundred cheers for Alamo Draft House in Austin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&feature=share “Ma’am, you may be free to text in all the other theaters in the Magnited States of America, but here at our “little crappy ass theater,” you are not. Why you may ask? Well, we actually do give a f*$k.” Sincerely, Tim League founder/CEO Alamo … Continue reading
The Hand: Dining Lite at BGPT
If only there was more substance to German Madrid’s short one-act play The Hand than turning on a grisly gimmick to make a political statement about have’s and have not’s, I might find myself more intrigued. I found it curious as an acting exercise at Broken Gears Project Theatre, but not satisfying as a full … Continue reading
Ripples from Hell: “9 Circles” in Boston & Dallas
Ever come out of a play as it’s “blossoming” its way across the country garnering admiration and accolades and suspect you have just seen a serious Tony and Pulitzer contender on its pathway to artistic glory? Circle your wagons at The MAC. If you don’t make it over to the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Sunday night … Continue reading
Trinity Shakespeare 2011: Bard’s Battalion
TRINITY Festival 2011 COMPANY VIDEO: http://youtu.be/MvDxhYa5-Rw When the ghost of William Shakespeare softly rose from the cold ashes of Ft. Worth’s Shakespeare in the Park in 2009 and blessed his new performance incarnation like the proverbial phoenix, Trinity Shakespeare Festival at TCU, who knew what to expect? With Harry Parker as Managing Director and TJ … Continue reading
FIT Announces 2011 Line-Up
Festival of independent Theatres opens July 15, 2011 DALLAS, TX-The summer’s hottest event returns to the historic Bath House Cultural Centerfor its thirteenth exciting season. The 2011 Festival of Independent Theatres coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Bath House Cultural Center and the 100th anniversary of White Rock Lake. So we’re throwing a party! … Continue reading
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