Review: Anything Goes
AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas Broadway actress Rachel York seems to have it all: impeccable comic timing, a deftness for dance, and a dynamic voice that carries all the way to the rafters. The triple threat was in fine form for Wednesday’s opening night of Anything Goes, the latest [...]
Review: The Chairs
Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas Lights up on an older couple in a large space with two chairs set in the middle. The man is standing on a box next to a window while the woman lights a couple of gas lamps. Scott Osborne’s wonderfully grubby set is certainly solid and detailed (nothing vague about it) [...]
The Con is On
The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can lands in Fair Park February 12. This swanky new musical about contemporary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. is the 2013 season opener for the Dallas Summer Musicals. Based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, the songwriting duo Marc Shaiman [...]
Timeless Tomlin
Lily Tomlin has a yen for the South and its strong women. Ann Richards was her good friend. “I used to own lots off the Pedernales near Austin. I was planning to build a house there, which of course I never did,” said Tomlin a bit wistfully in a late January interview. Other southern gal [...]
Theater Plays Role in History
Amphibian Stage Productions announced this week that Julia Pastrana, the subject of the company’s recent play, The True History of the Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World, will receive a burial in her home state of Sinaloa, Mexico on February 12, 2013, 153 years after her death. [...]
Director Discusses “Lear”
Dallas Theater Center will conclude its four-year Shakespeare cycle with one of the playwright’s greatest tragedies King Lear, a co-production with Trinity Repertory Company and directed by DTC artistic director Kevin Moriarty. This production brings together members of DTC’s and Trinity Rep’s acting companies for the first time in years [...]
REVIEW: A Behanding in Spokane
I’m not sure Martin McDonagh likes his audiences very much, but who knows? Presenting someone with a challenge, breeching their comfort zone, forcing them to reconsider assumptions, these could arguably be acts of love. If I pander to your notions of morality and humor, you’ll be entertained for an evening, if I refuse to [...]
Sister Act
During the holiday season a lot of people dread the additional family time. It seems that every gathering is just one mislaid word away from an explosion and childish behavior tends to run rampant. But for sisters Mary McElree and Shelbie Mac all the silly quarrels happen onstage. In Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman [...]
Cowboys of Color
Fort Worth’s Jubilee Theatre creates Black Spurs, a new musical about cowboys of color on the Chisholm Trail. When Tre Garrett first came to Fort Worth in late 2010 to take over as artistic director of The Jubilee Theatre, he decided he needed to get to know more about the culture of Cowtown. He found [...]
At Play with Dead White Zombies
The Dallas-based group of malcontent theatre, performance, visual, sound, and installation artists, collectively known as The Dead White Zombies, are taking experimental theatre to an all-new level. Thomas Riccio, an award-winning playwright, director, and scholar of indigenous and ritual created the group’s newest play (w)hole, a karmic love story [...]
