If you suffer from coulrophobia – the fear of clowns – then you might want to postpone visits to local thrift and antique stores for a little while. They’re crawling with scary clowns, priced to move. Paintings, prints, dolls, figurines. It’s like a Stephen King novel up in there. Here…
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. Under the gigantic dome at Fort Worth’s 1000-seat Casa Mañana theater, the cast of the…
Maybe the real question should be: Why haven’t more reality show participants killed themselves? With this week’s apparent suicide by hanging of Russell Armstrong, the 47-year-old estranged spouse of one of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the death toll from reality TV increases by one. There have been other…
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. There is nothing on any local stage right now like Elvis August. Created and performed…
There is nothing on any local stage right now like Elvis August. Created and performed by Jack Foltyn, the show is part tribute to the King, part impersonation and a whole lotta crazy. Performing on weekends through September 4 at the tiny Theatre 166 in northwest Carrollton (a space that’s…
Good morning, Baltimore! And howdy-do again to Hairspray, the wholesome American musical comedy whose low-art origins as a non-musical 1988 film by gross-out king John Waters have almost been obliterated in its evolution into family-friendly entertainment. First there was the clean-up for its transition to the Broadway stage, then the…
Nobody walks out of a theater humming the scenery. But when it comes to the scenic designs of Tony-nominated Beowulf Boritt, plenty of theatergoers and critics leave shows singing his praises. Boritt has been in and out of Dallas a lot over the past few years, designing sets for Dallas…
In the water, no one can see your jiggly parts. That’s one of the attractions of the exercise known as Aqua Zumba. That’s “Aqua” as in swimming pool and “Zumba” as in splashing to a Latin beat. And jiggly as in the stuff on your body you’d rather not expose…
Dallas Theater Center is cutting tickets prices for its season-opening production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. All main floor and lower balcony seats in the 600-seat Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre will be uniformly priced at $25. Top balcony, as always, is $15. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m., Thursday,…
The stage version of the 1982 Blake Edwards movie Victor/Victoria takes what was a B-level screen farce and makes it into a C-level piece of musical theater. Uptown Players is doing the show at Kalita Humphreys Theater right now and if it weren’t for a bunch of fine actors pouring…
Watching them detox on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab 5 with Dr. Drew, it’s sometimes hard to remember what the twitching, vomiting, weeping, roof-climbing celebrities did before they succumbed to the addictions that landed them on a cable-TV reality show. Some were one-shot wonders, like Amy Fisher, aka the Long Island Lolita,…
Our friends at TheaterJones, the local theater news site, break the news that TV legend Dick Van Dyke and younger brother Jerry are teaming up to star in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys for a three-night gig hereabouts. They’ll do the show, September 8 and 9 at the Eisemann Center…
The actor’s nightmare is to step onstage and suddenly realize he’s in a show he’s never rehearsed, with everyone looking to him to say the next line. The producer’s nightmare is to get a call from an actor in a leading role saying he’s unable to get to the theater…
Planking is so two weeks ago. Now it’s owling. Looky here if you haven’t been paying attention to the meme of the moment. For us, though, owling will always mean making a big-eyed bird of prey out of macramé, string art or cheap ceramic. Decorative owls were perched in lots…
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. The man-eating plant is in on the joke in WaterTower Theatre’s production of the musical…
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. The stage version of the 1982 Blake Edwards movie Victor/Victoria takes what was a B-level…
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. The 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying is like Mad Men…
A lesson in how to succeed at staging a creaky vintage musical comedy can be found in ICT Mainstage’s current uncreaky production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It’s fresh, fun, funny. Everything works. Musical director Scott A. Eckert’s tight eight-piece pit band sounds lush, full of…
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. The touring production of Guys and Dolls winding up its run this weekend at the…
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. If you haven’t made it over to the Festival of Independent Theatres yet, get there…
Fireworks keep going off every night of the Festival of Independent Theatres at the Bath House Cultural Center. Not outside over White Rock Lake; inside, on the little stage under a wheezy air-conditioner that doesn’t quite keep up with the crush of bodies crowding in to see the best written,…
From a world beyond casual, a dimension without shape or size, a place where Rod Serling hosts Project Runway, come PajamaJeans. Sold by the thousands on Home Shopping Network and through TV commercials, PajamaJeans are exactly that. They are Snuggies with legs, “jeans” that pull on and, apparently, stay on…
