FRESH FRIDAY: Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
It doesn’t matter that the plot is minimal, that the music is loud, or that the acting is rote. It’s the outrageous 500 costumes that are the star of the touring show, “Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical.” Easy to see why the designs won a Tony, and also an Oscar for the 1994 [...]
Review: Fela!
Raucous and defiant, electrifying and exhilarating, Fela! is a very different musical, blending a wide variety of attitudes and moods, sometimes angry, sometimes coy, sometimes soothing, sometimes sexy, sometimes groping for the mysterious and spiritual. Sprouting from the hybrid Afrobeat songs (jazz, funk, highlife, traditional Yoruban chants [...]
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical
An Interview with Wade McCollum Wade McCollum as last seen in Dallas as a ripped and highly sexual Emcee in the Dallas Theater Center’s terrific Cabaret in 2011. Now, he’s in his first Broadway tour in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in which he plays Tick/Mitzi, the Hugo Weaving character in the 1994 Academy Award-winning [...]
Dance to the Beat
When Fela! premiered on Broadway four years ago, it re-introduced the music of the revolutionary Nigerian composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and sparked a new interest in both the history surrounding Kuti and his Afrobeat music. On its second national tour, Fela! plays the Winspear Opera House May 7-19, as part of the Lexus Broadway Series. [...]
From Hero to Icon
The phrase “character actor” might not come to mind when you think of a former Hollywood hunk who has starred in action films like Batman Forever, The Saint and, most iconic, Top Gun, but that’s what Val Kilmer considers himself after more than 30 years in Hollywood. So it’s fitting that the project to which [...]
Expect Greatness
The Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano will be screening a stunning new production of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations on Thursday, March 21. Dickens’ classic tale has widely been believed to be too difficult to translate to stage. However, this production has been universally acclaimed as a triumph on its sellout tour of [...]
Seeing Red
It is 1958 and New York City is on the rise, literally and figuratively. With the influx of immigrants at the turn of the last century and the subsequent wave of artists and architects fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe, the cultural quotient of the city erupted exponentially. Mark Rothko belonged to this post-war generation of artists. He [...]
Get Looped
A 4,000 mile journey, a baby-smuggling clown and a post-modern Medea: Out of the Loop returns to Addison March 7-17, for 10 days of theater, dance, visual art and for the first time opera. This year’s “Loop” will be focused on local performing groups and host theater WaterTower Theatre will produce a mainstage show of [...]
New Play Contest
Seven local playwrights compete for a chance to win $1,000 cash in the annual New Play Competition produced for the eleventh year by TeCo Theatrical Productions, under the helm of Teresa Coleman Wash, herself a playwright and director. Wash owns and manages the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, where the schedule is filled with stage events and [...]
Review: Red
Dallas Theater Center What is the nature of brilliance? What is the nature of genius? Are those destined or determined to wrestle with the searing, implacable issues that plague we poor, pathetic mortals, doomed to a life of misery and inconsolable rage? These are questions [...]
