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Theater Review: Kitchen Dog Theater Finds the Remedy For Kate Fodor’s Flawed RX

Boy meets girl. Girl hates her job. Like, hates it hates it. “Disappears twice daily to the granny panty section of a nearby department store to bawl” kind of hates it. Boy has a magic pill that can...

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Theater Review: It’s a Difficult Journey to the Stage for The Grapes of Wrath

The key word for The Grapes of Wrath is “perseverance.” Not only does it apply to the dispossessed Joad family and the thousands of other Okies who trudged across America in search of work and survival...

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Theater Review: Why Wicked Has Staying Power (Particularly With the Tweens)

At 10 years old, Wicked is quickly approaching the median age of its target audience. The packed crowd at the Music Hall at Fair Park Thursday night certainly felt like it was seventy-five percent...

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Theater Review: Zany, Uneven Priscilla Queen of the Desert Banks on Nostalgia...

Last night, I had a dream. Like most dreams, it didn’t make a lot of sense the next morning. You know, when you’re trying to link together seemingly random scenes or remember why exactly everyone spoke...

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Theater Review: Kitchen Dog’s Hazy, Unsettling Se Llama Cristina Keeps...

The very nature of Se Llama Cristina makes reviewing it without spoilers nearly impossible. Octavio Solis’ hazy puzzle of a play begins with a man and a woman passed out in a grimy motel room,...

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Theater Review: WASP Comedy Black Tie Feels Out of Step, Leaves Audience Hanging

“There are times in life where we have to just hold our noses and jump.” In A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie, that sentiment is spoken by a stately gentleman on the eve of his grandson’s wedding. On the surface...

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Hyper-Ambitious, Child-Centric Fun House Theatre Adapts Glengarry Glen Ross...

The old theater adage says to never work with children or animals, but in Daffodil Girls at Fun House Theatre and Film, these children are animals. Hyper-ambitious and supremely focused, the girls—who...

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Theater Review: Lyric Stage Casts Peppy, Americana Spell With The Music Man...

When The Music Man’s Harold Hill steps off the train into River City, Iowa, he might as well be stepping into an alternate universe. From its sherbet-colored town square to the apple-cheeked children...

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Theater Review: Theatre Three Unearths Forgotten Noir With Delightful Results

City of Angels may not have been revived on Broadway since its premiere in the late ’80s, but Theatre Three is currently reminding audiences of the show’s plentiful charms with its sexy, fun...

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Theater Review: How Uptown Players Gives Songs for a New World a New Twist

The most interesting thing about a show like Songs for a New World is the freedom of interpretation it allows its producers. Described as a song cycle rather than a revue or book musical, the show...

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Theater Review: Dallas Theater Center’s Fly Reworks Peter Pan Tale And Puts...

Just as Snow White was the cinematic fairytale du jour a few years ago, Peter Pan has become the theatrical must-have. This time last year, Cathy Rigby soared into Dallas as the boy who wouldn’t grow...

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Theater Review: Xanadu‘s Campy, Roller Skating Disco Musical Is Not Just Good...

There are some projects that sound so outrageous there’s no way they could ever fail (hello, Sharknado), and then there are other projects, like the 1980 mega-flop film Xanadu, where the ridiculous...

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Theater Review: New Setting, Same Old Great Sound for Uptown Players’ Kiss of...

It’s been 10 years since Uptown Players last staged Kiss of the Spider Woman, and this new production offers fresh elements while remembering what worked the first time around. Then, what worked best...

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Theater Review: Is Forgotten Farce So Help Me God Worthy of a Revival?

You are probably not familiar with Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1929 play So Help Me God!, but you’ve seen it before. A little 42nd Street and a lot All About Eve (which surprisingly didn’t exist until...

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Theater Review: Is Neil LaBute’s In a Forest, Dark and Deep Genius, Or Just...

It was a dark and stormy night… It’s hard to shake the sense that playwright Neil LaBute is both aware of and completely blind to this cliché, since his latest work begins just so. Set in an isolated...

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Theater Review: Is The Book of Mormon Worth the Hype? Short Answer: Absolutely.

You know that The Book of Mormon is the biggest theatrical hit in years, achieving the kind of rock-star status that Mel Brooks’ The Producers inspired a decade ago. You know that it won nine Tony...

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Theater Review: Don’t Expect Julie Andrews’ Sugary Sweetness In Lyric Stage’s...

The first thing most people should keep in mind when viewing The Sound of Music onstage is that it differs slightly from its iconic film counterpart. Gone are the tunes “I Have Confidence” and...

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On The Eve Scores Big With DFW Critics Forum. Here Are All of This Year’s...

This past Saturday, it was time for the annual meeting of the DFW Critics Forum, where we hash it out over our favorite productions, actors, and creative contributors. There seemed to be a general...

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Theater Review: Sylvan Oswald’s Profanity Mixes Family Drama, Religious...

The season-opening Profanity at Undermain Theatre is also a world premiere. Sylvan Oswald’s 1950s-set dramedy, thinly based on his own family’s exploits, takes place in a real estate office run by two...

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Theater Review: Peter and the Starcatcher Is a Peter Pan Prequel That...

At the beginning of Peter and the Starcatcher, the cast asks its audience to “use your thoughts to hoist the sales.” Assembled on a stripped-down stage and lit starkly by footlights, the group calls to...

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