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What’s Coming In Dallas Theater This February
Echo Theatre creates a 1930s supper club in The Echo Room Presents: Her Song. From left: Malcolm Beaty, Terri Ferguson, and Jonathan Garcia take over the bar for a rendition of “Can’t We Be Friends?”...
View ArticleAmbitious Stagger Lee Searches For The American Dream
Dallas Theater Center playwright-in-residence Will Power turned not to a film or novel for the source material of his latest work, but rather a collection of folk tales and characters. The...
View ArticleWaterTower’s Sexy Laundry Bogged Down By Clichés
On the surface, Michele Riml’s Sexy Laundry is a basketful of clichés about men and women, love and marriage, Venus and Mars. In the hands of director Terry Martin and actors Wendy Welch and Bob Hess,...
View ArticleDallas Actor’s Lab’s Uncle Vanya Bores, Distances Audience
Typically, when a theater company immerses its audience directly in the path of the action it’s impossible not to get swept up in the drama. Dallas Actor’s Lab’s staging of Uncle Vanya, on the ninth...
View ArticleEcho Theatre’s Her Song Woos With Bubbly Entertainment
There’s a fine showmance going on at the Bath House Cultural Center, where Echo Theatre has once again transformed the black box space into a snazzy supper club for The Echo Room Presents: Her Song....
View ArticleSalvador Dalí’s Magical Luster Only Shines So Bright
Jose Rivera’s 2000 play bills itself as magical realism, and in some ways it is. There’s a Moon spouting poetry while a Coyote seduces a Cat, dulled by domesticity, with lurid talk of life in the wild....
View ArticleGet Your Kicks Elsewhere: The Banal Sparkle of Kinky Boots
Cyndi Lauper is not the first pop star to write a musical. Paul Simon penned The Capeman, Pete Townshend wrote The Who’s Tommy, Phil Collins banged the drum for Disney’s Tarzan, and Elton John is...
View ArticleTragedies, Comedies, and Killers: 8 Must-See Shows at Out of the Loop
It’s Loop time again in Addison, which means 10 days of nonstop theater, dance, art, song, and even puppets at WaterTower Theatre’s annual fringe festival. Previous years’ lineups have been uneven at...
View ArticleHistory Hits Home in Mississippi Goddamn
When history happens, it also happens to the people living next to it. That’s the concept of Jonathan Norton’s most recent play, Mississippi Goddamn, which retells the events leading up to the 1963...
View ArticleBull-ies on Parade in Second Thought Theatre’s ‘Psychological Beat Down’
Second Thought Theatre’s production of Bull is out to unsettle you from the beginning. A thundering buzzer sounds when it’s time to let the audience in from the lobby, then loud, jarring music pounds...
View ArticleThe Fever Feels Like An Hour-Long Scolding
Two years ago, Patrick O’Brien won Best of the Loop with his sold-out show, Underneath the Lintel. He returns with a self-directed monologue written by Wallace Shawn, and it’s no understatement to say...
View ArticleThe Spark Lights Up the Imagination at Out of the Loop
There’s a fringe festival aura that seems perfectly suited to The Spark, a new play written and directed by Kelsey Leigh Ervi. Imaginatively using bedsheets, flashlights, wine bottles, coat hangers,...
View ArticleThe Comedic Misery of Jenn Dodd’s Melanchomedy
There’s no denying that Jenn Dodd is a gifted comedienne with a knack for impressions, but not all of her misfit characters in Melanchomedy are polished to a quirky sheen yet. That’s not to say they...
View ArticleThe Danielle Georgiou Dance Group Is Twice As NICE at Out of the Loop
It’s more than nice that another round of audiences get to see Danielle Georgiou’s provocative, beautiful, and deeply unsettling multisensory dance show NICE. Having played the Wyly as part of the...
View ArticleYou Need Go Search Gets Lost Looking for a Point
This odd little two-hander from Ah, Whoopsies! starts out promisingly enough, with Timothy Giles dangling by his teeth from a clothesline and lamenting chances lost. Then, sadly, it devolves into...
View ArticleMelinda Wood Allen Makes Her Own Rules in Charming Not An Ingenue
“Stars and the Moon” from Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For a New World is one cabaret standard I thought for sure I never needed to hear again. But as Melinda Wood Allen sings it in Not An Ingenue, an...
View ArticleThe Identity Crisis of ¡My Sweet Bat-Ceañera!
Elizabeth Berkman explains in her one-woman show that artists are commonly told not to draw the thing itself, but the area around it. This advice doesn’t work so well in a 40-minute show that’s...
View ArticleWacky Wilde/Earnest Is Wild, Not So Earnest
As a concept, Lee Trull’s wild and wacky adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest seems so promising. Take Oscar Wilde’s famous play and update it with modern slang, a bubblegum-pink set by artist...
View ArticleThe Tender Madness of the Dallas Theater Center’s Medea
We are told in Medea that “great passions grow into monsters,” and there is no doubt that Sally Nystuen Vahle’s terrifying mother and scorned wife is fueled by passion. Her keening wails and raging...
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6 Must-See Shows In Dallas Theater This April
Spring in Dallas can be a fickle thing—who knows how many more of these gorgeous days we have before the searing heat of summer sets in? I understand your hesitation to spend even a single evening...
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