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Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

Lindsey WilsonMarch 11, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane took a look around Dallas and noticed a gap. Despite having the sixth-biggest population of LGBTQ people in the nation and a reputation as one of the country’s most gay-friendly cities, no theater company in Dallas was regularly producing theater that told this community’s stories....

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Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth

Lindsey WilsonFebruary 13, 2020

Amy Stevenson, a performer and educator who founded and hosts a weekly cabaret called Mama’s Party, has been more than good to Dallas-Fort Worth for the last 14 years....

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Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

Lindsey WilsonFebruary 12, 2020

If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another....

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A new way of looking: Dallas Children’s Theater premieres a trans story for all teens

Lindsey WilsonJanuary 17, 2020

But as families and school administrators are beginning to acknowledge the journey that more and more young transgender people are recognizing, exploring, and living, so is Dallas Children’s Theater....

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Community’s Mirror: Denise Lee writes a play for the people in Dallas

Lindsey WilsonJanuary 10, 2020

As an admired and award-winning singer and actor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Denise Lee is used to hearing accolades and raves....

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Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup

Lindsey WilsonOctober 17, 2019

For the past 40 years, Fort Worth’s Stage West has been producing works that challenge, inspire, and entertain....

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Acting in Texas: Shannon McGrann

Lindsey WilsonSeptember 16, 2019

What do Carrie Fisher, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a rabbit have in common? It’s not a trick question, but a sampling of the roles Shannon McGrann has played over her years onstage and in front of the camera....

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Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year

Lindsey WilsonSeptember 10, 2019

If you’re wondering how the Dallas performing arts scene has changed over the past five years, just look at the Elevator Project....

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Haley Nelson In Residence: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater’s In-House Producer

Lindsey WilsonAugust 13, 2019

Since its founding in 1998, the National New Play Network has produced 85 rolling world premieres. Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater, formed in 1990, is one of NNPN’s founding core theaters, and hosts the longest-running new play festival in Texas. ...

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Homegrown World Premiere: Blake Hackler at Second Thought and Circle Theatre

Lindsey WilsonAugust 7, 2019

When Blake Hackler handed over his newest play, What We Were, to Second Thought Theatre artistic director Alex Organ, he wasn’t expecting an offer to produce it. ...

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Directing in Texas: Emily Scott Banks

Lindsey WilsonJuly 29, 2019

In her decade of professional directing, the former dancer (and award-winning actor) has led more than her share of challenging shows....

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A Playwright Rises: Jonathan Norton takes up residence at Dallas Theater Center

Lindsey WilsonMarch 14, 2019

At the beginning of 2019, Dallas Theater Center announced Jonathan Norton as its new playwright in residence, but the history between the two actually goes back much farther:...

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