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11/30/2008

Theater Review: Woosters has plenty of that signature Wodehouse wit

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Regan Adair and Emily Scott Banks

Larceny, blackmail, random violence: the stuff of British drawing-room comedy, or at least of The Code of the Woosters.

11/29/2008

Theater Review: WaterTower's Beautiful Star exudes the rarer virtues
ADDISON – Whether you go to a church with its own Christmas pageant or never darken the door, you owe it to yourself to see WaterTower Theatre's version of one, Beautiful Star . Not because it's slicker and more professional, as you might expect, but because it exudes the rarer virtues of simplicity and faith.

Jim Covault is Jeeves, and so much more at Fort Worth's Stage West
Jim Covault will be the quiet guy solving everybody's problems at Stage West through Jan. 4. Actually, he's been doing that full time for most of the last 30 years.

11/23/2008

Theater Review: Undermain Theatre's Eurydice is delightfully entertaining
The seeds of loss begin to germinate even as a great love begins. You still can't guess how much it is going to hurt, though, when their tendrils squeeze the life out of you in the end.

11/18/2008

'Topdog/Underdog' actors close as siblings

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Christopher Dontrell Piper (left) and David Jeremiah (right) star in Upstart Productions' Topdog/Underdog.

David Jeremiah and Christopher Dontrell Piper aren't really siblings. They just act that way. Onstage in Upstart Productions' exhilarating revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, the two actors play brothers as archetypically crossways as Cain and Abel. In real life, though, the young men met when they were 12 or 13 and have been best buds ever since.
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Details: Topdog/Underdog

11/14/2008

Theater Review: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at Kitchen Dog
Imagine the worst trespass, the worst betrayal that can violate a marriage. Then think about its impact on spouse, family and friends. That's what The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is all about.

11/09/2008

In spite of a tough economy, three theater companies just launched in Dallas County

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Matthew Posey, founder of Ochre House, was one of the pioneers of Deep Ellum theater scene in the 1980's and has opened a new Exposition Park space.

Talk about brave: Despite the nation's troubled economy, three startup theater companies opened productions Friday, all part of ambitious inaugural seasons. Deep Ellum theatrical pioneer Matthew Posey invited the public to the Ochre House, a 50-seat space in a storefront in Exposition Park, for the first time with an original comedy, Séance . A mile away, 25-year-old Jeff Glover produced Topdog/Underdog for his Upstart Productions' first show at Dallas Hub Theater.

CD Review: Brahms' Symphony No. 1 by John Eliot Gardiner

11/08/2008

Theater Review: DeSoto show sets a powerful tone with one-woman 'Neat'
DESOTO – In Neat , Charlayne Woodard personalizes more than a half-century of black history in America. It's amazing to watch, especially in view of this week's historical election.

11/07/2008

Theater Review: Ochre House opens with the spook Sèance
Going to a show at Ochre House is like getting invited into someone's newly redecorated living room – someone very artistic. Which, in point of fact, is exactly what it is.

'Topdog/Underdog' a good fit for Deep Ellum's Hub Theater

Upstart Productions

Topdog/Underdog

I've seen Topdog/Underdog on Broadway, and I've seen it at the Dallas Theater Center. It works a whole lot better in a back room in Deep Ellum.

11/05/2008

CD Review: Four Last Songs by Strauss, featuring Renée Fleming

CD Review: Mieczslaw Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol. 2

11/01/2008

WaterTower Theatre enlivens 'Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn'
ADDISON – William Finn sets words to music more naturally than any other contemporary American theater composer. He'd probably be our most popular if he didn't focus so hard on his favorite subject: himself.

10/31/2008

Theater company caters to senior citizens

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Wedding Belles producers Larry Randolph, top-left, and Marty Van Kleeck, right, and writer Ronnie Claire Edwards (seated)

One Thirty Productions isn't one of those theaters that offer a fun night on the town. It caters to those who want to be home before dark.

10/30/2008

New Dallas company Essential Stage presents rare production of Dennis Lehane play

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Matt Savins (left) is Bobby and Nye Cooper is Bobby's father in Coronado.

Dennis Lehane is one of our most serious – and most popular – thriller writers. He has written only one play, Coronado, and a new company, Essential Stage, opened the first staging west of the Mississippi on Oct 23.

10/27/2008

Kimberly Whalen's innocent love in Theatre Three's 'Light in the Piazza' is as charming as her acting
Just a few weeks after finishing Lyric Stage's West Side Story , Kimberly Whalen is singing another balcony scene in a great American musical. Am I crazy, or is "Say It Somehow" in The Light in the Piazza an even more beautiful expression of young love than "Tonight"?

'The Light in the Piazza' leads talk about creating mother-daughter bond
In The Light in the Piazza , Kimberly Whalen has two moms – and she loves both of them.

10/22/2008

Stellar acting in Dallas Theater Center's 'The Good Negro' recalls power of civil rights movement
The saga of the American Civil Rights movement is a story that constantly demands retelling. Tracey Scott Wilson compresses an epic's worth into less than three hours in The Good Negro .

10/21/2008

Tracey Scott Wilson's 'The Good Negro' premieres at Dallas Theater Center

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Tracey Scott Wilson wrote The Good Negro, which is the latest production at the Dallas Theater Center.

Tracey Scott Wilson's play about the civil rights movement has been brewing in her head for a decade or more. She's hoping the world premiere of The Good Negro that the Dallas Theater Center opens is finally the finished product.
Details: The Good Negro

10/16/2008

Lyric Stage brings back 1960 Tony winner 'Fiorello!'
IRVING – If Dallas theater were a baseball team, it would have a very deep bench.

Teatro Dallas' 'Don Juan Tenorio, the Vampire' captures spirit of Day of the Dead
At some theaters these days, the Halloween show is as reliable an annual moneymaker as the Christmas one. Teatro Dallas has led the pack with its extravaganzas for the Mexican feast of the Day of the Dead.

10/15/2008

'Monkey: The Quest to the West' amplifies spirit of Chinese classic
Some simians will do anything for a laugh. In Monkey: The Quest to the West, the rambunctious title character, in the person of Laura Jorgensen, relieves himself on Buddha's giant outstretched hand.

10/12/2008

WingSpan Theatre Company presents Ibsen's 'Ghosts'
Ibsen's Ghosts , one of the first great plays we can recognize as modern, looks backward and forward. WingSpan Theatre Company's rare revival successfully straddles the divide.

10/09/2008

Playwrights team up at new Bishop Arts Theater

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Russell-Ides, Coleman Wash

Teresa Coleman Wash and Isabella Russell-Ides are proving that sisterhood is powerful, regardless of generation and race.

10/06/2008

Paul Taylor's dual roles a delight in Theatre Three's drag show 'Pixie DeCosta!'
Drag shows about has-been movie stars are suddenly at the top of the charts. On Monday, just three days after Uptown Players opened its cross-dressing version of Legends , Theatre Three gave the world premiere of Look What Happened to Pixie DeCosta! .

10/05/2008

Theater Review: After faltering start, 'Merchant of Venice' and its Shylock build to a triumphant conclusion
When Shakespeare Dallas' The Merchant of Venice is good, it is very, very good. When it is not, it is horrifying – in a good way.

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