Kitchen 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...
I 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...
The theater community says "bye for now" to Allison Tolman, who just moved to Chicago this past week. Lawson Taitte refers to her in print as "the greatest actress of her generation". (Hopefully that's not what made her leave town!)...
Dallas playwrights, take heart if it seems that your local theater companies are less interested in you than some out of town ones are. I talked this afternoon to Yussef El Guindi, who wrote Kitchen Dog Theater's upcoming new play...
A week later than Tina Parker promised it in her as-usual-hilarious curtain speech at "Titus Andronicus" last Friday, she sent over the announcment of Kitchen Dog Theater's upcoming season. It has new plays by three playwrights who have had great...
Veteran actor (and filmmaker) Kevin Nash wrote me his reaction to Kitchen Dog's over-the-top Titus Andronicus. His tagline is "What a mess -- and I'm not talking about the mutilations, blood and gore." He goes on to say: Kitchen Dog...
There's one intriguing, if not puzzling, thing in the upcoming Dallas Theater Center season announced yesterday. It's rather rare for the company to produce a recent American play that has already been produced locally. But as part of its The...
Novelist-playwright Denis Johnson has been spending quite a bit of time in Dallas as Kitchen Dog Theater and Project X work on his play Psychos Never Dream, set to open next week. Writers always hate to hear that celebrities "don't...
I had the pleasure of finally seeing Kitchen Dog Theater's The Pillowman on Friday, and I wholeheartedly second Lawson Taitte's assessment of the show as "dazzling." The script by Martin McDonagh is incredibly provocative, fiendishly funny and downright chilling, all...
Kitchen Dog Theater is offering a pay-what-you-can special for the first 25 people who walk up and ask for the special on any Wednesday or Thursday performance during its production of The Pillowman, which runs through Oct. 11. They...
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