Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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. ...
Lindsey Wilson is a Dallas-based arts writer and critic with a journalism master's from Syracuse University and a penchant for chips and salsa. When not at the theater (which is rare), she enjoys reading, play with her dogs, and drinking craft beer. Photo by Marni B Photography.
