The Big Show
A new big top production from the internationally-renowned Cirque du Soleil is flying high in downtown Dallas through...
Theater
Review: Life Is a Dream
Main Street Theater September 20 – October 21 Main Street Theater opened its 38th Season with Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s poetic masterpiece, Life Is a Dream. Written in the 17th century, the work questions what it means to be fully awake and if it is only in our dreams [...]
Theater in the Raw
Strong Acting Defines Stark Naked Theatre When I first met Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin over a Chinese...
Holding High the Musical Flame
Theatre Under the Stars Strives Forward There is a song in the musical Jekyll & Hyde that describes...
Review: Beauty & The Beast
What’s not to love in a story about a bookworm? Belle, one of Disney’s most cherished heroines, loves literature, libraries and a furry guy with a tail and some anger management problems. Beauty & the Beast took over the Gexa [...]
Review: 2 Pianos 4 Hands
Stages Repertory Theatre September 5-October 28, 2012 Before I begin this review I should let it be known...
As the Story Unfolds
As magically compelling as the Tony Award-winning play War Horse is to watch, story it’s also a fascinating...
A Woman of Substance
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. [...]
The Laugh’s On Them
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 [...]
Spec’ing Out a Theater
Dallas City Performance Hall is a 750 seat multi-disciplinary theater that has the ability to become whatever it...
Dressing for Dinner
Pearl Cleage returns to The Ensemble Theatre Pearl Cleage’s The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence...
Review: Museum of Dysfunction V
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 [,,,]