When a play and the performances in it are as stirring as Jubilee Theatre's The Brothers Size, it's hard to find the right descriptives to do it... More >>

Hardly matters anymore if a musical is a hit or a flop on Broadway. Big regional companies like Addison's WaterTower Theatre are so starved for... More >>

Theater companies and arts critics around Dallas have declared recent SMU drama grad Jeffrey Colangelo a budding genius as a playwright, director... More >>

Tennessee Williams described The Two-Character Play as his "most beautiful" drama after A Streetcar Named Desire. He may have been a bit too in... More >>

Director Michael Serrecchia has gathered some mighty big voices to play Little Women in the musical version of Louisa May Alcott's novel.... More >>

At Dallas Children's Theater, Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale, directed by Nancy Schaeffer, is letting the title character's hair... More >>

Like many Broadway musicals these days, Hands on a Hardbody was adapted from a movie. But unlike others, it came not from a splashy animated... More >>

Good news: In the future, caftans make a comeback and toilet technology will be amazing. Bad news: Your house will know where you are and what... More >>

Have you been shivering with antici ... pation for a new Rocky Horror Show? That not only does the Time Warp but the Bristol Stomp, a Rockette... More >>

Shakespeare Dallas' fall production, Antony and Cleopatra, sports two sexy leads in Daniel Duque-Estrada (who's also a company member at Dallas... More >>

Fake rain drips from the ceiling at the end of Thinner than Water, a dreary play by Melissa Ross, directed by Chris Carlos, now on in the smaller... More >>

Unicorn, gryphon, bisexual man: Pick the one that's real. The usual answer is "none of the above," with the bisexual male lumped in alongside the... More >>

Seeing a show at Lyric Stage isn't just a chance to revisit a beloved piece of American musical theater; it's an education in how musicals were... More >>

"Picture it, Dallas, Texas." The wind-ups in Candy Barr's Last Dance at Theatre Three are something worthy of Sophia Petrillo. And perhaps The... More >>

When musicals make the trek from the Great White Way to the silver screen, it's likely they'll find a way back to the stage. There is no better... More >>

It's little wonder that no theater until Dallas' Uptown Players has attempted the bio-musical The Boy from Oz in the decade since it closed its... More >>

Like an old actor no longer able to remember his lines, maybe the Festival of Independent Theatres needs to be led gently out of the spotlight... More >>

From the first line of Christhelmet, you know you're in for something special in this gritty, great new musical written, directed by and starring... More >>

The annual Festival of Independent Theatres is underway at the Bath House Cultural Center. Opening night featured two of the eight shows by... More >>

Turns out the revolutionary way to stage Les Misérables is to take the French revolutionaries out of it entirely. No frilly shirts. No... More >>

One of the hallmarks of almost any production at Theatre Three, one of Dallas' oldest theater companies, is how much time they waste moving... More >>

Summer is Shakespeare season on both sides of the Trinity River. If you like soaking up your classical works in a steam bath with added sound... More >>

The Comedy of Errors at Trinity Shakespeare Festival in Fort Worth offers some of one and too much of the other. It's a weak play by... More >>

This isn't the maiden voyage for the musical Titanic at Lyric Stage. The company did it in 2003 using the same staging by director Drew Scott... More >>

Instead of producing the American premiere of British musical Soho Cinders, Uptown Players should've taken script and score and burned them. What... More >>

David Lindsay-Abaire's two-act dramedy Good People at WaterTower Theatre argues both sides of the same argument. Are good choices or good luck... More >>

When a new play hits a stage in near-perfect form — like Matt Lyle's Barbecue Apocalypse, the sizzling comedy headlining as a world... More >>

If you'd never seen a river portrayed on stage by actors holding long swaths of silky blue cloth, waving them up and down to make the "water"... More >>

It's not the end of the world if your dinner party is a bust. Or is it? In the smart new comedy Barbecue Apocalypse by Matt Lyle, a big city... More >>