Little Women’s Score Leaves Much to be Desired
The musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women debuted on Broadway roughly a year after Stephen Schwatz’s Wicked, which centers around a green-skinned girl who pursues her...
View ArticleBonnie and Clyde Successfully Ditches Reality for Glamour
There’s a snapshot police found of Bonnie Parker that cemented her reputation as a gangster’s moll: a cigar delicately yet determinedly clamped between her teeth, a pistol dangling against her jutting...
View ArticleTeotl: The Sand Show Provides More than Just A Gasp-Worthy Surprise
Twenty minutes into Jeffrey Colangelo’s original movement piece, Teotl: the sand show, it feels like you know exactly where it’s heading. And then something happens, something so surprising that gasps...
View ArticleThinner Than Water Retreads Familiar Sibling Misery
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: fighting siblings reassemble at the bedside of a dying parent, where tempers flare, resentment bubbles to the surface, and there’s a lot of yelling. If it...
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DTC’s Miss Daisy Veers into Fresh New Territory
Coming off an outrageously naughty production of The Rocky Horror Show, director Joel Ferrell has switched gears to Alfred Uhry’s quiet rumination on friendship, Driving Miss Daisy. It may seem like an...
View ArticleGiveaway: Kitchen Dog Theater’s The Arsonists
If you feel like playing with fire, Kitchen Dog Theater has the perfect show for you. A new translation by Alistair Beaton of Max Frisch’s The Arsonists opens on Nov. 7 and plays through Dec. 13, and...
View ArticleArt of the Slow Burn: Kitchen Dog Theater’s The Arsonists
With The Arsonists, Kitchen Dog Theater is luxuriating in the art of the slow burn. In a new translation by Alistair Beaton, Max Frisch’s 1953 play about a corrupt businessman who aids in his own...
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Karaoke Motel Breaks Rules but Meanders Indulgently
Dead White Zombies has spent years carving out its specific niche in Dallas theater, that of the avant-garde troupe that’s unafraid to break the rules and mess with your head. In previous shows, such...
View ArticleGiveaway: 4 Pairs of Tickets to Yes Virginia Woolf, There Is a Santa Claus
For all their jolliness and merriment, the holidays are also a time for dysfunction. Therefore it just wouldn’t be December without a darkly comic offering from the kids at Fun House Theatre and Film,...
View ArticleA Civil War Christmas Avoids Sentimental Take on Era
The characters in A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration don’t believe in flying reindeer or talking snowmen. They believe in a different kind of magic: that a man’s hand can sign a...
View ArticleDTC’s A Christmas Carol Aided by Strong Musical Accompaniment
Last year, Kevin Moriarty shook things up by reinventing Dallas Theater Center’s longstanding holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol. It was a daring and modern production, but one that ultimately had...
View ArticleA Christmas Story: The Musical Just Holiday Business as Usual
Holiday entertainment is big business, and holiday fare that an audience already knows by heart is a no-brainer. Thanks to endless cable replays, the 1983 movie A Christmas Story has cemented its place...
View ArticleGreat American Trailer Park Christmas Musical a Decidedly Adult Take on the...
If it worked once, bring it back and slap some tinsel on it. That may have been the thinking behind David Nehls’ and Betsy Kelso’s decision to revisit the tenants of Armadillo Acres, North Florida’s...
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Interview: Zander Meiser, Understudy in the National Tour of Once
It’s the little show that beat out Disney and Gershwin at the 2012 Tony Awards, a musical based on a movie that somehow retained its quiet simplicity and entrancing romance. Once, with a score by its...
View ArticleNo Burl Ives but this Rudolph is True to its TV Roots
For some, watching the 1964 stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a holiday tradition. With its live musical stage version, Wishing Star Productions is aiming to be part of...
View ArticleDallas Theater 2014 in Review (And a Look Forward to 2015)
Favorite Plays Kitchen Dog Theater scored big with Barbecue Apocalypse, Matt Lyle’s zombie-takeover social satire that gleefully poked fun at hipsters and neurotic suburbanites alike. In my head, I’m...
View ArticleIn Theatre Three’s Tru, Even the Charming Capote Wears Out His Welcome
I’m sure you’ve been in this position: A charismatic friend is telling you about his or her weekend, name-dropping and exclaiming and being as devastatingly charming as he or she can, and you’re...
View ArticleDTC’s Book Club Play Will Make You Wish You’d Stayed Home With a Good Book
Shortly into Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, the members of Ana Smith’s book club are discussing Moby-Dick when a giant whale bursts through the floorboards and swallows them all. No, sorry. That...
View ArticleSlackers Seek Meaning Through Film in Undermain’s The Flick
Audiences didn’t quite know what to make of The Flick when it premiered off-Broadway in 2013. It’s long (three hours), doesn’t contain a lot of action, and relies on extended periods without dialogue....
View ArticleCruelty Accompanies Laughs in WaterTower’s Explorers Club
Before penning The Explorers Club in 2013, Nell Benjamin gained a starry stage credit with the musical adaptation of the film Legally Blonde. But while that Broadway show cleverly jabbed the male...
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