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Entries tagged with 'Dallas theater'New theater in GrapevineLifeStage Theatre in Grapevine has a school and an Equity agreement. Unfortunately, its holiday show opens the same night as five other bigger theaters on my beat. (No exaggeration!) So I may not be able to get out to see... More thoughts: "Port Twilight" at Undermain TheatreI'm still reeling from the sheer mastery involved in Undermain Theatre's Len Jenkin premiere, Port Twilight. Everything about it -- acting, design, even the longish video -- is done so well. The play itself is one of the weightier new... Allison Moore's endingsKitchen Dog Theater has produced four plays by SMU grad Allison Moore, and I've reviewed three of them. I liked them all very much, but I had big problems with the way the first two I saw (Hazzard County and... Jaime Castaneda moves to New York...and takes Firestarter with himTCU grad Jaime Castaneda has been living a double life since finishing a graduate degree at UT-Austin. He has been living in the Dallas area, where he has continued to direct plays under the aegis of FireStarter Productions (his own... Paul Baker has died at age 98Paul Baker, founding artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center, died from complications of pneumonia Sunday in a hospital near his Central Texas ranch. He was 98. Baker gained national fame for his innovative program at Baylor University in the... "101 Dalmatians" tickets go on saleTickets for the Dallas Summer Musicals' holiday show, The 101 Dalmatians Musical,"go on sale today through Ticketmaster. The tour of the brand new show gets to the Fair Park Music Hall on Dec. 1.... Tina Parker on TVI heard that Tina Parker flew out to do a role on the Emmy-winning AMC series Breaking Bad -- between starring in Kitchen Dog Theater's recently closed Vigils and beginning the direction of the company's next show, Slasher. "I am... "Grey Gardens" extendedWaterTower Theatre announced today that it is extending its critical and popular hit musical Grey Gardens for another week, through Nov. 1. That's the remarkable Diane Sheehan and the melliflous Gary Floyd in Nan Coulter's photo.... The Road to "The Road to Qatar"Stephen Cole and David Krane's new musical is about the new musical they wrote for the opening of a billion-dollar new sports arena (and yes, it looks rather like Cowboy Stadium) in the Middle East four years ago. Here's a... Repertorio Espanol back at Latino Cultural CenterRepertorio Espanol is the nation's top touring Spanish-language theater. It has come to the Latino Cultural Center for the last several years, and I've always regretted that I had conflicts (even though my Spanish is pretty poor). Also, it gets... The good, the great, the underappreciatedThe Dallas Theater Critics Forum Awards came out today. MANY KUDOS to MANY TALENTED PEOPLE. But then.....there's.... You know who you are. You're the actor who is cast over and over and over because you are the best actor in... Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum Awards announcedEight crtics (plus one voting by proxy -- her new day job intervened) held our annual meeting at Martha Heimberg's amazing Craftsman-style Lakewood house to praise, cajole, bully and log-roll each other to come up with a list of honorees... Dallas Summer Musicals go green in a big way next yearMichael A. Jenkins of the Dallas Summer Musicals is unveiling his upcoming season to his supporters and patrons at a shindig at Fair Park this evening. He'll announce some interesting stuff. Next year's State Fair Musical, for instance, will be... Second Thought annouces dates on 2009-2010 seasonSecond Thought Theatre's Anastasia Munoz just sent over the full schedule for the company's sixth season. Several of the playwrights, not to speak of the directors, are new to the company. The festivities begin Oct. 29 with a revival of... Rachel York to star as Cruella De VilThe stage version of "101 Dalmations" that the Dallas Summer Musicals is importing Dec. 2-20 now has a star attached: Rachel York. York starred in "City of Angels" and "VictorVictoria" on Broadway and went into several other shows as replacement... Arts district ticket pricing -- hush-hush?Is it just us or is it difficult to pin down the arts groups at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and indeed other venues in the arts district as to just how much they're charging for single tickets?... Lyric Stage gets a managing directorIrving's Lyric Stage has become a talking point all over the country -- and not just because it's the only group today mounting fully staged musicals with a live orchestra the size of those that played in the pits 40... Dallas theater stars prove they're no ScroogesDiva extraordinaire Patty Breckenridge called to alert me that a group of Dallas theater artists are banding together to create a holiday CD, all profits of which will go a a local shelter for battered children. Individuals (Kim Whalen, Natalie... Two grants from national peers to Kitchen DogAt the National New Play Network's annual conference, which Kitchen Dog Theater hosted here in Dallas last month, the local pups got voted two awards. One was for a show already finished, in fact -- the rolling premiere of Jihad... Wilkerson to join Artisan Center TheaterIt's a real mark of how serious that mid-cities community institution, Artisan Center Theater, is about upping the ante that it has hired John Davidson as artistic director, effective Aug. 1. Wilkerson just directed a successful My Fair Lady for... |
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