Echo Theatre showcases a season of works highlighting prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, Aphra Behn. She may be the opposite of a one-hit wonder – she was someone whose career outshone any one particular work. [...]...
Improvisational comedy, the funny folks on TV with the super-quick quips doing games that evoke Charades and 20 Questions. Right? Few realize those games are gussied up versions of acting exercises, much less suspect them tied to something as grand as the impulse of life itself [...]...
The Dallas City Performance Hall will open in the Dallas Arts District on September 13.
Dallas City Performance Hall is a 750 seat multi-disciplinary theater ...
Pearl Cleage. COURTESY OF PEARL CLEAGE.
Pearl Cleage returns to The Ensemble Theatre
Pearl Cleage's The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at...
Mildred’s Umbrella’s Museum of Dysfunction V August 9-18, 2012 Mildred Umbrella opened their celebrated annual showcase of short plays, Museum of Dysfunction V, on Thursday, August 9. The selection, which is split into two sections, runs through August 18, with alternating performances. Mildred’s Umbrella received [,,,]...
A shot from Twelfth Night.
For a playwright from the 16th century, ailment William Shakespeare has a pretty good track record. Theater companies around the w...
Jersey Boys
Lexus Broadway Series @ AT&T Performing Arts Center
June 12–July 15, link 2012
There seem to be an increasing number of musicals, medicine th...
Cameron Cobb. Photo: Jeffrey Schmidt
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Theatre 3, order Dallas
June 7–July 7, 2012
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a fine, funny, r...
Happy McPartlin as Diana.Photo by Gary Fountain.
Stages Repertory Theatre
May 16-June 24
If someone told me that the minute the curtain came down after the fir...
Liz Duffy Adams Returns to Main Street Theater Liz Duffy Adams first amazed Main Street Theater audiences with her play/poem Or, a delicious period piece all set in rhythm. She’s back with Dog Act, a post-apocalyptic play [...]...
Bit of Stretch Theatre Co. at 14 Pews Houston opens its doors to returning college students every summer. Some don’t just want to hang around. Southwestern University (SU) students Emma Martinsen and Erin Cressy and New York [...]...
Undermain Theatre May 2–June 2, 2012 Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958, around the same time as Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and Albee’s The Zoo Story, ushering in a movement called “Theater of the Absurd” and what some critics dubbed “Comedy of Menace.” [...]...
