Arts non-profit visionary Teresa Wash trusts her instincts. When she found a dusty, unoccupied warehouse space in Oak Cliff after moving her non-profit arts group from Atlanta, her instincts told her to make it a theatre. The building became hers in 2005. Almost twenty years later, community supported, award-winning TeCo Theatrical Productions serves and impacts … Continue reading
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To Save A Mockingbird: Dallas Theater Center & Casa Manana
“A sprawling, somewhat old-fashioned family entertainment that floods the stage with actors and scenery”: that’s how New York Times critic Stephen Holden described a 1991 production of a version of Christopher Sergel’s To Kill A Mockingbird, adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning 1960 Harper Lee novel of the same name. He might have been describing the … Continue reading
Innovation In Dance Tradition: Dean Andre DeLuna
Success balances easily on the well-muscled shoulders and nimble feet of New York City based professional dancer/actor/choreographer Dean Andre DeLuna as he warms up to perform in the Dallas Summer Musicals‘ State Fair of Texas performances of West Side Story. It’s one stop on the beloved, classic musical’s national tour. DeLuna feels particular excitement about … Continue reading
Tempest in a Galactic Teapot: Dallas Theater Center Does Shakespeare, Again
Chamblee Ferguson is Dallas Theater Center’s Marathon Man. Is there any style of stage performance he can’t master with skill, dedication, depth and passionate lyricism? As brimming over with detailed, ornate stage settings and effects as DTC’s current production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest may be, Ferguson negates the need for any of it and would … Continue reading
Last Chance for Last Summer: Uptown’s Pride Festival
You’ve got one last chance, tonight, September 16, to attend the grandmother of Lesbian/feminist plays, and it’s a real gem. Part of the Pride Festival at the Kalita Humphreys Theatre sponsored by Uptown Players, the award-winning Last Summer at Bluefish Cove will touch you with uncanny grace in its fully staged reading at the upstairs … Continue reading
Echo Theatre: A Most Glorious Fraud
“I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito.” It’s 1858. Marian Evans’ mind is driving her crazy. Women aren’t supposed to think much, or develop analytical faculties, or move to London to pursue careers as editors and rent housing from men of questionable reputation and moral standards. But that’s just what she’s done. It’s driving … Continue reading
DFW Theatre Critics Forum Results
Please see the 2010-2011 concensus results at Theater Jones. http://www.theaterjones.com/features/20110911235220/2011-09-14/All-the-Critics-Love-You I am non-participant this year.
No Average Bump & Grind: Lyric Stage’s “Gypsy”
Everything does seem to be “coming up roses” for Irving’s Lyric Stage these days, where mounting one fully orchestrated classic musical theatre production after another gives regional and national artists and audiences alike the chance to experience the shows in fully restored auditory splendor. The current offering, Gypsy, (music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen … Continue reading
Baby’s Long, Long Way: It’s No Act
“You’ve come a long way, baby.”This congratulatory advertising slogan from 1968 endeavored to sell gender-tailored cigarettes to young professional women, capitalizing on their expanding roles in the non-menial workforce and enhanced personal and sexual freedoms due to the Pill, revealing attire and popularity of women’s lib. Aside from wondering how truly far today’s women have … Continue reading
Folk Stars Align: Ft Worth September 2
“Children don’t give up your heart To the counting of the days And the sleep that we start Hold on to the wind at night And the river of dreams That will show you the way back To moonlight in the garden.” Walls of Paradise A beautiful young woman in her early 20’s, long auburn … Continue reading
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