Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. A few days before the opening of Gypsy at Lyric Stage, one of the co-stars…
The Office is 10 years old. The first episode aired in the UK in the summer of 2001, assigned a 9:30 p.m. timeslot on a Monday because the BBC thought it was a loser. By the time it debuted on NBC in March 2005, it was anything but. (It returns…
A strong Patti LuPone vibe buzzes through Lyric Stage’s Gypsy, running through September 18 at the Irving Arts Center, and not just because the company purchased all the costumes from the most recent Broadway production, the one that starred LuPone as that mother of all stage mothers, Momma Rose. The…
The votes are in from the Dallas/Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum for the latest round of honors recognizing the best work on local stages big and small. The awards are decided at an annual potluck lunch at critic Martha Heimberg’s Lakewood home, where the critics writing for DFW’s magazines, newspapers…
If you were thinking of moseying over to a Target store after work to pick up a few of those Missoni items, don’t bother. By 8:30 this morning the racks were cleaned out. I know this because I was at the Super Target at Abrams and Skillman bright and early,…
Whatever you had planned for tonight, forget it. Go see The Sunshine Boys at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. If you can’t make it tonight, see it Saturday night at Casa Mañana in Fort Worth. After that, it’s gone, possibly to Broadway (there’s an offer on the table), or maybe…
The Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and a bunch of Dallas theaters are once again offering free tickets for performances as part of the National Free Night of Theater. Starting today, September 9, enter to win tickets for performances at local theaters in October. Once you’re on the site, you’ll…
Every few months Dallas-area theaters pile on the new shows. This is one of those weekends, with 10 productions opening. One of those, Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival at Uptown Players, is a multi-show offering filling several performance spaces at Kalita Humphreys Theater. So go see a show. Tickets start…
Dallas Opera and the AT&T Performing Arts Center open the 2011-’12 “Tragic Obsessions” opera season at 7:30 p.m., Friday, October 21, with a live street-level “Plazacast” in Sammons Park in front of the Winspear Opera House. Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor starring Romanian soprano Elena Mosuc and Italian baritone Luca Grassi…
Back in 1963, Andy Warhol pointed a small movie camera at his friend John Giorno, recorded him sleeping for six hours and released it as a six-hour film called Sleep. Warhol shot eight hours of the top of the Empire State Building and called it Empire. He filmed close-ups of…
Over the past year he’s played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and a Nazi officer in Cabaret. Now, cast in the lead as Prospero in Shakespeare’s mighty drama The Tempest, actor Chamblee Ferguson steps into the biggest role of his long career at Dallas Theater Center. The Tempest, opening…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Playwright A.R. Gurney has written more than 40 plays, but it’s a good bet Sylvia…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Make Eugene O’Neill’s drama Long Day’s Journey into Night into a knockabout comedy? Who in…
Just to shorthand it: If The Simpsons did Long Day’s Journey into Night, you’d have Morphing, the latest, funniest, most brilliantly perverse piece of original theater yet by Matthew Posey and his Ochre House gang. It takes a few ticks to realize that the characters in Morphing, written, designed and…
Walk into any Gap store right now and you’ll see mannequins wearing jeans from the “1969 Always Skinny” line. The mannequins are headless and have unnaturally long legs with thighs the size of a small woman’s forearm. If these legs were on a real female body, we’d worry the poor…
One reason actor Justin Locklear is sure to stick around Dallas for a bit longer: His car, a 1985 Toyota Land Cruiser, is parked for the next few weeks as part of the scenery in the Ochre House theater’s latest production, Morphing. Good thing he lives within walking distance of…
Imagine Gilligan’s Island starring Jerry Van Dyke as Little Buddy and Carroll O’Connor as the Captain. They were the first choices for leads in the 1960s sitcom, but both actors turned down the roles that then went to Bob Denver and Alan Hale Jr. Television history is full of stories…
Heat has taken a toll on our theater actors this summer. During Shakespeare Dallas’ run of Cyrano and As You Like It at Samuell Grand Park, lead actors Chris Hury and Joanna Schellenberg experienced symptoms of heatstroke, not just once but several times. Even ice packs in their costumes couldn’t…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. A lame effort like Wild Oats is no way for Theatre Three to launch its…
Are sunspots making shows go haywire in local theaters? Is Mercury in retrograde? Two productions at neighborhood playhouses opened last week, or tried to, and they proved that old adage true again: Dying is easy; comedy is hard. Theatre Three has started its 51st season with Wild Oats, a play…
Join me in obsessing about British actor, comedian, writer, commentator and all-around adorable young curmudgeon David Mitchell. He’s worth obsessing over, if you’re in need of a new source of laughs, because he’s as funny as Ricky Gervais. Maybe funnier. And he’s all over YouTube, thanks to the BBC channel…
Artists have until 5 p.m., September 14, to paint and sculpt skulls, skeletons, ghosts and goblins for entry into the 25th annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) art exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake. That’s the deadline for artwork to be considered…
