The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, December 27-30

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. John Caparulo at the Addison Improv John “Cap” Caparulo earned his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents, which recently aired on TBS, and is now a part of Blue Collar Comedy: The Next Generation…

The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, December 20-23

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. This is 40 We’re starting the list with a movie this time. Why? Because it’s Judd Apatow, that’s why. This is 40 follows Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from Apatow’s 2007…

The Year in Dallas Theater

If Dallas theater gets much better than it was in 2012, Chicago’s going to be jealous. Dallas’ theatrical community used to lose a lot of homegrown talent to that city with the wind. (And to New York and L.A.) Not so much anymore, as the number of theater companies, performance…

In Magnolia Lounge’s On the Eve, 1.21 Gigawatts of Fun

Secrets of time travel are revealed in On the Eve, the high-flying new musical at the tiny Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park. According to the whimsical script, written by Dallas actor Michael Federico, all you need to float back and forth across centuries are a hot air balloon, a Hula…

The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, December 6-9

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. Shawn & Marlon Wayans at the Addison Improv These two brothers of In Living Color and White Chicks fame are in Addison Thursday through Saturday. Come see ’em bust out some tandem comedy…

The Five Greatest Hair Moments in the Musical Jekyll & Hyde

There are 23 people in the cast of Jekyll & Hyde, but the real star of the show is lead actor Constantine Maroulis’ hair. It shimmers, it glistens, it flips, flies and flaps. It goes back in a long ponytail when he’s playing brooding Dr. Jekyll and falls down in…

The Best Plays about JFK

In this week’s Dallas Observer, we chronicle the history of Jack Ruby, All-American Boy, perhaps the best play ever produced by Dallas Theater Center. It’s on a surprisingly short list of American plays that have dealt with the JFK assassination. Among the best: Macbird, a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson,…

The Five Best Comedy Shows in Dallas This Weekend, November 23-25

Every Thursday we highlight the best comedy of the coming weekend. Find more comedy events at dallasobserver.com/calendar. If you can still walk after stuffing your face full of turkey, mashed potatoes and whatever passes for cranberry dressing in your house, head on over to these shows to laugh off some…

Crazy for You at Theatre Three Takes Some Nutty Missteps

Here’s how lack of attention to detail sucks the funny out of a big musical comedy like Crazy for You, the show packed with Gershwin songs and wedged uncomfortably into Theatre Three. In a scene in the second act, two female characters meet for the first time. They are rivals…