Christopher Sykes: Acting Out
Native Texan Christopher Sykes is 23, click but he knew it was his destiny to be an actor...
Theater
Review: Apocalypse Town
Sure, the word ‘apocalypse’ might bring to mind a scorched-earth wasteland, an image of a world abandoned, forsaken — an image which a project concerned with life in post-conflict Kosovo might want to conjure [...]
Review: “In the Next Room”
I dare you to bring your Mom to this play, which features more orgasms than I’ve ever seen on stage in a long history of theatergoing. True to its subtitle, “The Vibrator Play” aims to shock and titillate, but Ruhl is too smart [...]
Review: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”
Within the first five minutes of Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company’s recent production “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” you understand that the place you are about to encounter is not your own. This is a bizarro parallel to the world you know [...]
What’s Old is New Again
John Johnson, known throughout Houston’s tight-knit stage community as “JJ,” is happy enough sharing the official motto of the troupe he founded, for which (as with his name) Classical Theatre Company [...]
Painting The Town RED
Dallas Theater Center has announced its 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC’s 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC’s four-year Shakespeare cycle [...]
Review: Tigers Be Still
“Tigers Be Still” Dallas Theater Center March 2–May 13, 2012 The four characters in Kim Rosenstock’s “Tigers Be...
Review: “Dark Play or Stories For Boys”
“dark play or stories for boys” Out of the Loop Festival, Addison March 1–11, 2012 You start from...
Class Act: Diana Sheehan
Reaching the midway point in life can be a wake up call for anyone; Sheehan explores its moments of celebration and sorrow through an eclectic array of American songs of desire and longing, re-awakened dreams and hopes. One of the North Texas region’s most respected actor/singers (she received multiple regional awards and highest praise for her [...]
Eclectic Mix at Loop Festival
The Heavenly Muse Players (HMP), a new local theatrical troupe with members who hail from Dallas, Los Angeles,...
Legends on Tour
Chris Grant grew up in Denton, sick where, in the third grade, he made his stage debut playing...
Review: “Dinner With Friends”
The company’s latest production, Donald Margulies’ 2000 Pulitzer-winning drama “Dinner With Friends,” marks the inaugural show of the new Studio 101 collective theater space [...]