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Romeo and Juliet
by Prokofiev (music), Ben Stevenson (choreography); inspired by Shakespeare


CLOSING THIS WEEK ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14
at Bass Performance Hall
330 E. Fourth Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
877-828-9200
$19-$99
8pm Friday & Saturday; 2pm Sunday
Ben Stevenson's version of the Prokofiev ballet, inspired by Shakespeare's most beloved tragedy.



Leaving Iowa
by Spike Manton and Tim Clue 
Presented by Imaginary Ink


CLOSING THIS WEEK ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
at Courtyard Theatre
1509 Avenue H, Plano, TX 75074
$13-$15
7:30pm Wednesday & Thursdays, 8pm Fridays & Saturdays
 

Leaving Iowa is a heartwarming story of Don, a successful writer who returns to his childhood hometown for a baptism and winds up taking a journey to find a final resting place for his father's ashes. It is an endearing story that will keep you laughing the whole way through and make you thankful for those most important around you. It was written by Spike Manton & Tim Clue and it premiered at the Purple Rose Theatre Company on January 22, 2004, in Chelsea, Michigan and was directed by Anthony Caselli.


Alice in Wonderland/Adventures in Wonderland


CLOSING THIS WEEK ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
at The ArtCentre Theatre
1028 15th Place, Plano, TX 75074
214-606-8880
$15-$20
Various times
Two productions, one from the summer camp and the other a teen production, based on the Lewis Carroll story.


My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne du Maurier (adapted by Diana Morgan)


CLOSING THIS WEEK ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
at Granville Arts Center
300 North Fifth St, Garland, TX 75040
972-205-2790
$18-$20
7:30pm Thursdays; 8pm Fridays & Saturdays; 2:30pm Sundays
This enchanting story is set in a great house in Cornwall which has been inherited by young Philip Ashley on the death of his uncle and surrogate father.

His uncle had gone to Rome, married a young Italian widow of short acquaintance and then died under mysterious circumstances. The widow, “cousin” Rachel, comes to visit Philip and her charm and grace soon wins her friends and the ardent devotion of Philip himself. As his attraction for the alluring Rachel increases, Philip’s health declines, confirming to him the fear that Rachel is actually poisoning him. The mounting tension leads to the famous twist ending which leaves nagging doubts as to where guilt and evil should fairly be assigned.


The Blue Moon Dancing
by Ed Graczyk


CLOSING THIS WEEK ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
5601 Sears Street, Dallas, TX 75206
214-828-0094
$22-$32
7:30pm Thursday; 8pm Friday & Saturday; 2:30pm Sunday
Contemporary Theatre of Dallas presents the world premiere of a comedy/drama from Ed Graczyk, author of Come Back To The 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. This charming story takes place outside the West Texas city of McCarthy in the aging Blue Moon Dance Hall and is a mosaic of a day in the lives of some of its eclectic regulars and passers through.  With a storm gaining strength on the horizon, a myriad of idiosyncratic events are taking place inside the “Moon” including the wedding of two regulars on the dance floor where they first found each other, the longing for Dallas, Elvis, and the face of Jesus in a water stain on the ceiling. Directed by Cheryl Denson. Cast features: Shane Beeson, Nye Cooper, Jenae Yerger-Glanton, Sue Loncar, Don Long, Cindee Mayfield, Kevin Moore, Nancy Sherrard, Lee Jamison Wadley and Carolyn Wickwire.


Bach at Leipzig
by Itamar Moses
Presented by Circle Theatre


Playing through September 18 at Circle Theatre
230 West 4th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-877-3040
$20-$35
7:30pm Thursday; 8pm Friday; 3 & 8pm Saturday
In 1722, six of the era's finest musicians compete to become lead organist at the biggest church in Leipzig. Previews Aug 19, 20 and 21 (matinee), opens Aug 21 evening.


South Pacific
by Rodgers & Hammerstein


Playing through September 25 at Artisan Center Theater
418 E. Pipeline Road, Hurst, TX 76053
817-284-1200
$7-$16
7:30pm Monday-Tuesday & Thursday-Friday; 3 & 7:30pm Saturday
Musical based on the stories of Sea Bees on a sparsely inhabited island in WW II. Great tunes.


Unnecessary Farce
by Paul Slade Smith


Playing through September 25 at Pocket Sandwich Theatre
5400 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 119, Dallas, TX 75206
214-821-1860
$10-$18 not including food and beverage service (starting 90 minutes before curtain)
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 7pm Sundays
This is an hilarious comedy written by Paul Slade Smith and to be directed by Rodney Dobbs. Two inexperienced police officers have set up a “sting” to capture an embezzler. Do things run smoothly? Of course not! Enter the Mayor, the accountant, the Head of Security, the Mayor’s wife and a mysterious Scotsman and complications abound. Will the embezzled money be recovered? Can the cops manage to capture the crooks? Unnecessary Farce is a tight, well-written play and one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud adult comedies you’ve seen in a long time.


Circus Salome
by David Yeakle
Presented by Hip Pocket Theatre


Playing through September 26 at Silver Creek Amphitheatre
1950 Silver Creek Road, Fort Worth, TX 76108
817-246-9775
$5-$15
8:15pm Friday-Sunday
Oscar Wilde's notorious play, Salome, is re-imagined as a strange circus wherein the Ringmaster, Herod, lusts for his spoiled stepdaughter, the aerialist, Salome. The ominous, blasphemous and erotic elements of Wilde's original script remain intact in this circus setting, presented as a world of abusive power, gluttonous excess and sexual desire.


The 39 Steps
by Patrick Barlow (based on the novel by John Buchan)
Presented by Stage West


Playing through September 26 at Stage West
821 West Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76104
817-784-9378
$24-$28
7:30pm Thursday; 8pm Friday and Saturday; 3pm Sunday
Area premiere of Patrick Barlow's hilarious adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film, using only four actors playing nearly 100 roles. Previews Aug. 26 & 27, opens Aug. 28.


Mama's Party
Presented by Mama's Party


CLOSING TODAY
at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
5601 Sears Street, Dallas, TX 75206
214-828-0094
$5
7pm every Monday night
Singer and actress Amy Stevenson hosts this cabaret every Monday night at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas.

Upcoming guests:

  • Sept.  6: Open mike night. This week's show is at Tucker's Blues, 2617 Commerce Street in Deep Ellum. 

Songs From an Unmade Bed
Presented by Theatre Three


Playing through October 3 at Theatre Three
2800 Routh St., Suite 168, Dallas, TX 75201
214-871-3300
$20-$30
7:30pm Thursdays; 8pm Fridays & Saturdays; 2:30pm Sundays
An off-Broadway sensation, this is an exciting new cabaret styled theatre piece. Lyricist Campbell collaborated with 18 abaret composers to create sung narratives of the passions, pitfalls and puzzles of modern romantic relationships. The result is an intimate behind-the-scenes exploration of what it means to have a heart filled with meanings the mind still tries to grasp. Simple, powerful and unforgettable, the singers are supported by piano and cello. Previews Sept. 3-5, opens Sept. 6.


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Presented by Artes de la Rosa


September 9 - 18 at Rose Marine Theatre
1440 North Main St., Forth Worth, TX 76164
817-624-8333
$10-$15
7:30pm Thursday-Saturday; 2:30pm Sunday
 

This explosive new Cuban-inspired staging of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play evokes the heat and passion like only Williams and Havana can.

Well
by Lisa Kron
Presented by Echo Theatre


September 9 - 25 at Bath House Cultural Center
512 East Lawther Drive, Dallas, TX 75218
214-904-0500
Pay-What-You-Can Thurs Feb 18 & 25; $15 Sat mat Feb 20 & 27; $20 online purchase, $25 at door for all other performances; students and seniors $10 for non-PWYC nights with valid ID
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2pm Saturdays
In Well, Kron creates a complex exploration of our assumptions about whether or not we are responsible for our own illnesses. She draws on stories of her family's history of chronic illness, her own stay in an "environmental ecology clinic," and her subsequent transition to health. Woven into this are stories of her childhood in a racially integrated neighborhood which was "healed" from decline by her mother's community work. Kron places herself on stage with the character of her mother along with a chorus of four actors. These characters continually undermine Kron's plans for the play - a meta-theatrical conceit that has proven exceedingly delightful to audiences as it subverts the autobiographical form by removing the narrator's assumption of omniscience and forcing her to react as her intentions are derailed and her motives are questioned.

Adventures in Mating
by Lisa Devine
Presented by Rover Dramawerks


September 9 - October 2 at Cox Building Playhouse
1517 H Avenue, Plano, TX 75074
800-595-4TIX
$15-$18
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2pm select Saturdays
YOU play the role of cruel fate in a romantic comedy for cynics of all ages! When a dysfunctional couple can't make simple decisions, like ordering red or white wine, the audience votes and the show takes off in wildly different directions. Soup or salad? A slap or a kiss? Life or death? YOU DECIDE! With multiple storylines and endings, plus ever-changing scene options, you can't see it all if you only see it once! A "create your own adventure" story for grown-ups..


MOMIX
Presented by TITAS


LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, September 10 - 11 only
at Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House
AT&T Performing Arts Center, 2100 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 75201
214-880-0202
$19-$127
8pm Friday & Saturday
MOMIX defies categorization as easily as its dancers defy gravity. Mesmerizing, magical and imaginative, MOMIX spellbinds audiences across the globe. Since debuting MOMIX’s newest creation Botanica in Italy last winter, it has played to packed houses and rave reviews around the world. Botanica, like other MOMIX creations, creates a magical and ethereal world. MOMIX dancer-illusionists conjure a world of surrealistic images using light, shadow, props, humor and the human body.


My Fair Lady
by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics), Frederick Loewe (music)
Presented by Lyric Stage


September 10 - 19 at Carpenter Performance Hall
Irving Arts Center, 3333 North MacArthur Blvd., Irving, TX 75062
972-252-2787
$25-$50
8pm Thursday-Saturday; 2:30pm Sunday
This show is the standard by which all others are measured. Based on Shaw’s play Pygmalion, with book, music and lyrics by Lerner and Loewe, My Fair Lady is triumphant. With Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?, With a Little Bit of Luck, The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me to the Church on Time and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face it’s no wonder everyone—not just Henry Higgins—falls in love with Eliza Doolittle. Performed with a 35-piece orchestra.


Bullshot Crummond
by Ron House, Diz White, John Neville-Andrews, Allan Shearman and Derek Cunningham
Presented by Onstage in Bedford


September 10 - 19 at Trinity Arts Theater
Bedford Boys Ranch, 2819 Forest Ridge Dr, Bedford, TX 76021
817-354-6444
Call for prices
8pm Friday-Saturday; 3pm Sunday
This parody of low-budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue. Otto paralyzes Crummond with a fiendish ray. He rams a stick of dynamite in Crummond's mouth which will explode when the next person enters the room. Rosemary enters, but the static electricity in her fur wrap averts the detonation. They pursue in a hair raising car chase, but plunge over a cliff. They sneak into the dungeons where the professor is being tortured, but Crummond hopelessly loses the ensuing saber duel. Unperturbed, Crummond finally triumphs by shooting the rest of the cast.

Betrayal
by Harold Pinter
Presented by Kitchen Dog Theater


September 10 - October 9 at McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC)
3120 McKinney Ave., Dallas, TX 75204
214-953-1055
$20-$25 (pay-what-you-can select performances)
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays & select Wednesdays; 2pm select Sundays
Kitchen Dog Theater kicks off its 20th season of theater with Betrayal by Harold Pinter. When her marriage breaks up, Emma asks to meet with her former lover—her husband's close friend, Jerry. Their reflection on their seven-year affair sparks the revelation of a different kind of betrayal. Told in reverse chronology, Pinter exquisitely exposes the little lies and casual evasions that underpin our most intimate relationships in this 20th century masterwork.


Henry IV
by William Shakespeare


September 10 - October 10 at Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
AT&T Performing Arts Center, 2100 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 75201
214-880-0202
$10-$80
7pm Tuesdays-Thursdays; 8pm Fridays; 2 & 8pm Saturdays; 2 & 7pm Sundays
You’ll see why this was the Bard’s most popular play during his lifetime. Raucous comedy and large-scale battlefield action punctuate the moving drama of a prodigal son who must learn to become a man and a king. With England torn by a civil war, the ailing King Henry is desperately fighting rebel armies. Meanwhile, his heir, Prince Hal, is partying with the London lowlifes, including (give him a cheer!) Shakespeare’s most beloved comic character, the drunken, obese knight, Sir John Falstaff—brought to life by the inimitable Randy Moore, the only actor who, over five decades, has been directed in productions by every one of Dallas Theater Center’s artistic directors.


Smoke on the Mountain
by Constance Ray (book), conceived by Alan Bailey, Musical arrangements by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick.


September 10 - October 10 at Plaza Theatre Company
111 S. Main St., Cleburne, TX 76033
817-202-0600
$9-$12
7:30pm Thursdays & Fridays; 3 & 7:30pm Saturdays
 

The year is 1938. It's Saturday night in Mount Pleasant, NC, and the Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers to provide an upliftin' evening of singin' and witnessin'. The audience is invited to pull up a pew and join in the rollicking good time. More than two dozen songs, many of them vintage pop hymns, and hilarious stories from the more or less devout Sanders provide a richly entertaining evening that has audiences clapping, singing, laughing and cheering.

reasons to be pretty
by Neil LaBute
Presented by Journey Theatre Company


LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, September 11 - 12 only
at Dorothea Leonhardt Lecture Hall
Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107
$10
7pm Saturday, 2 & 7pm Sunday
A new group of TCU alumni debuts with Neil LaBute's 2008 play that deals with issues of appearance, and relationships.


The Sound of Music
by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Presented by Casa Manana


September 11 - 19 at Casa Maņana Theatre
3101 West Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76107
817-332-2272
$37-$62
7:30pm Tuesday-Thursday; 8pm Friday; 2 & 8pm Saturday; 2 & 7pm Sunday
The beloved R&H classic with nuns, Nazis and a singing governess. Starring Broadway's Jacquelyn Piro Donovan as Maria, and Steve Blanchard as Georg. Blanchard was the longest running Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and was recently seen as Pa in the Little House on the Prairie musical, which came to both Dallas and Fort Worth.


Bill
by Matthew Posey
Presented by Balanced Almond


September 11 - October 1 at Ochre House
825 Exposition Ave., Dallas, TX 75226
214-826-6273
$15
8:15pm Wednesdays-Saturdays
Matthew Posey's debuts his play about writer William S. Burroughs. Previews Sept. 8-10, opens Sept. 11.


How to Eat Like a Child


September 11 - October 24 at The ArtCentre Theatre
1028 15th Place, Plano, TX 75074
214-606-8880
$12-$15
Various times
This musical romp through the joys and sorrows of being a child is hilarious. Children give lessons in such subjects as how to beg for a dog, how to torture your sister, how to act after being sent to your room and how to laugh hysterically. The pace is fast, the tone subversive and the recognition instant. By the end of the night, far more than one lesson will be taught to the audience – all lessons by children eager to impart the valuable lessons they’ve learned to help them deal with the new world they’re discovering.


Three Hotels
by Jon Robin Baitz


LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, September 13 only
at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth, TX 76107
817-923-3012
$15
7pm
Three Hotels presents the story of an American businessman and his wife who have risked everything to further his career abroad with a multinational corporation. Once idealistic young members of the Peace Corps, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle now find themselves betraying the principals of their youth in the service of capitalism. When success is on the line, where do idealism, morality, and family fit in, and what is this couple willing to sacrifice? In this emotionally charged piece, three decisive moments bring Hoyle and his wife face to face with the price of ambition. Staged reading.


Blue Man Group


September 14 - 26 at Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House
AT&T Performing Arts Center, 2100 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 75201
214-880-0202
$25-$120
8pm Tuesdays-Saturdays; 2pm Saturdays & Sundays
The renowned Blue Man Group premieres a new show as the opening of the ATTPAC's second season of Lexus Broadway Series.


Murder by the Book
by Duncan Greenwood and Robert King


September 16 - 25 at Duncanville Community Theatre
106 S. Main St., Duncanville, TX 75116
972-780-5707
$11-$14
8pm Thursday-Saturday
A murder mystery that has—guess what?—a murder, suspects and some twists.


And All His Songs Were Sad
by Mattie Lennon


September 16 - October 3
817-472-0032
$15
8pm Fridays; 3 & 8pm Saturdays; 3pm Sundays
A dramatic musical tribute to Sean McCarthy, one of Ireland’s most loved songwriters.


A Midsummer Night's Bombay Dream
by William Shakespeare


September 17 - 26 at Promenade Theatre
6520 N. Coit Rd., Suite #2320, Richardson, TX 75080
972-690-5029
$12-$20
7:30pm Friday-Saturday; 2:30pm Sunday
A Bollywood-style performance of Shakespeare's most popular comedy.

Always...Patsy Cline
by Ted Swindley
Presented by Popcorn Players


September 17 - 26 at Azle Arts Association
1112 Southeast Pkwy, Azle, TX 76020
817-238-7529
$8-$10
7:30pm Friday-Saturday; 2:20pm Sunday
The musical that looks at the songs of the legendary country singer.

Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller


September 17 - 26
972-563-8991
call for ticket prices
8pm Friday-Saturday; matinees Saturdays-Sundays
Season opener for this community theater company in Kaufman County. The Pulitzer-winning masterpiece has been hailed by critics as the great American tragedy. It’s the powerful story of the last days of Willy Loman, the iconic salesman, riding on
a smile and a shoeshine and desperately chasing the American Dream.


The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde


September 17 - 26 at Denton Community Theatre
214 W. Hickory St., Denton, TX 76201
940-381-3562
$10-$18
7:30pm Friday & Saturday; 2pm Sunday
A classic comey of manners set in late Victorian England. When Jack, also known as Ernest, reveals his double life to his aristocratic best friend, Algernon, Algernon reveals his similar duplicity to avoid social obligations. Add in the young ladies that the young men wish to marry, their chaperones and the foibles and hypocrisy of society it all adds up to Oscar Wilde's most enduringly popular play.


The Full Monty
by David Yazbek (music and lyrics), Terrence McNally (book)
Presented by Theatre Arlington


September 17 - October 10 at Theatre Arlington
305 W. Main St., Arlington, TX 76010
817-275-7661
$22
7:30pm Thursdays; 8pm Fridays & Saturdays; 2pm Sundays
The musical based on the 1998 film about out-of-work steelworks who put on a strip show. It opens Theatre Arlington's 34th season.


Miss Nelson Is Missing!
by Jeffrey Hatcher from the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall


September 17 - October 24 at Rosewood Center for Family Arts
5938 Skillman St., Dallas, TX 75231
214-740-0051
$16-$23
7:30pm Fridays; 1:30 & 4:30pm Saturday & Sundays
Classroom comedy about unruly children. When a terrifying substitute teacher, Miss Swamp, appears, the kids of Room 207 launch a search for beloved Miss Nelson.


The Two Gentlemen of Verona
by William Shakespeare
Presented by Shakespeare Dallas


September 22 - October 17 at Samuell-Grand Park Amphitheater
1500 Tenison Parkway, Dallas, TX 75223
214-559-2778
$10
8pm all performances
Shakespeare Dallas follows up its summer season with The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Raphael Parry. The show runs at Samuell-Grand Park first, and then transfers to Addison Circle Park. Here's the schedule:

  • Previews Sept. 22-23 at Samuell-Grand Park.
  • Opens Sept. 24, runs through Oct. 2
  • Runs Oct. 6-17 at Addison Circle Park

Little Women
by Allan Knee (book), Mindi Dickstein (lyrics), Jason Howland (music)


September 23 - October 3 at Uptown Theater
120 E. Main St., Grand Prairie, TX 75050
972-237-8786
$10-$20
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2pm Sundays
The Grand Prairie Arts Council presents the musical based on the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel.


Greater Tuna
by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams


September 23 - October 10 at Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre
830 Parker Square, Flower Mound, TX 75028
972-724-2147
$20-$25
7:30pm Thursdays; 8pm Fridays & Saturdays; 2:30pm Sundays
Ryan Roach and Chris Robinson return to all the lovable characters of Tuna, Texas, that they did so well in 2009.


Carnival of Souls: Purgatorium
by Bill Fountain (adapted from the John Clifford screenplay)
Presented by Level Ground Arts


September 23 - October 30 at K.D. Studio Theatre
2600 N. Stemmons No. 180, Dallas, TX 75207
214-630-5491
$20 (general seating)
8:15pm Friday-Saturday Sept 23-Oct 16; plus midnight shows Oct 29 & 30
Level Ground Arts performs an adaptation of the creepy 1962 film, set in post-Katrina New Orleans.


The Man I Love
Presented by DVA Productions


September 24 - 25 at Betty and Hardy Sanders Theatre
Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
817-313-3052
$20-$25
8pm Friday & Saturday
DVA Productions presents an original show, in which Sheran Goodspeed Keyton plays a woman on her final tour as a singer, and remembering her past. Also featuring Tyrone King.


Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
Presented by WaterTower Theatre


September 24 - October 24 at WaterTower Theatre
15650 Addison Road, Addison, TX 75001
972-450-6232
$25-$40
7:30pm Wednesdays & Thursdays; 8pm Fridays & Saturdays; 2pm Sundays & Oct 23; student matinees 10am Oct. 5 &12
Terry Martin directs and plays the Stage Manager in WaterTower's opening show of the 2010-'11 season, a revival of Thornton Wilder's Pultizer Prize-winning masterpiece. Previews 8pm Sept. 24 & 25, and 7:30pm Sept. 26, opens Sept. 27 (Monday, the new opening night for WaterTower). 


Shrek the Musical
by Jeanine Tesori (music), David Lindsay-Abaire (book and lyrics)


September 28 - October 17 at Music Hall at Fair Park
909 First St., Dallas, TX 75210
214-631-2787
$15-$65
8pm Tuesdays-Sundays; 2pm Saturdays & Sundays
The musical based on the much-loved Dreamworks film.


33 Variations
by Moises Kaufman
Presented by Theatre Three


September 30 - October 31 at Theatre Three
2800 Routh St., Suite 168, Dallas, TX 75201
214-871-3300
$10-$40
7:30pm Thursday; 8pm Friday; 2:30 & 8pm Saturday; 2:30 & 7:30pm Sunday
A famed musicologist becomes obsessed with knowing why, in his last years, Beethoven wrote a series of variations on simple waltz tune. The play unfolds in a variation format.


Closer to Heaven
by Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Jonathan Harvey
Presented by Uptown Players

Recommended by Mark Lowry

October 1 - 24 at Kalita Humphreys Theater
3636 Turtle Creek Blvd., Dallas, TX 75219
214-219-2718
$30-$40
8pm Fridays-Saturdays; 2pm Sundays (no perf Oct 3)
 

Set amid the hedonistic gay culture of and seeking the big time in London. Closer to Heaven tells the story of Dave - young, sexy and fresh from Ireland and seeking the big time in London. Meanwhile, the outrageous Bob Saunders, pop manager extraordinaire, has his own plans for Dave. As fame and fortune beckon, Dave quickly learns that things aren't always as straightforward as they seem.
 
The book for Closer to Heaven is by Jonathan Harvey whose plays include Beautiful Thing, Guiding Star and Out in the Open. The music and lyrics are by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, better known as the Pet Shop Boys, the most successful pop duo in British chart history who have sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Their number one hits include "West End Girls" and "It's a Sin."

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee (adapted for the stage)


October 1 - 30 at Artisan Center Theater
418 E. Pipeline Road, Hurst, TX 76053
817-284-1200
$7-$16
7:30pm Monday-Tuesday & Thursday-Friday; 3 & 7:30pm Saturday
Touching story set in the Deep South, with an African-American man accused of raping a white woman. His trial brings a family closer together.


Two on the Aisle: The American Dream and The Sandbox
by Edward Albee


October 6 - 23 at Bath House Cultural Center
512 East Lawther Drive, Dallas, TX 75218
214-675-6573
$17-$20 (Discounts available for seniors and students; student rush tix available 30 mins before curtain)
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2pm Oct 16 & 23
Edward Albee’s - TWO ON THE AISLE: The American Dream and The Sandbox are both plays from the early part of the playwright’s canon. Albee’s hall of mirrors and absurd games and wicked humor are at full tilt. In The Sandbox, written in 1959, Albee introduces one of America’s most dysfunctional families, a grasping materialistic married couple who stages a perverse seaside idyll destined to end in the demise of the wife’s aged mother. In The American Dream, written in 1960, Albee continues the story of The Sandbox’s Mommy and Daddy. In it, Albee explores the hollowness of the American dream, as well as the fallacy of the ideal American family. Both plays are startling tales that rock middle-class ethics to their complacent foundations.


The Curse of Castle Mongrew
by Roger Downey


October 8 - 31 at Rosewood Center for Family Arts
5938 Skillman St., Dallas, TX 75231
214-740-0051
$16-$23
7:30pm Fridays; 1:30 & 4:30pm Saturday & Sundays
A Gothic horror comedy by Roger Downey. Meet the Mongrews. Young Katherine suddenly finds herself an orphan and is sent to live in the crumbling estate of her strange uncle. Little does she know that the creepy castle is under a curse.


On the Origin of the Specifics
by John Carlisle Moore
Presented by Hip Pocket Theatre


October 8 - 31 at Silver Creek Amphitheatre
1950 Silver Creek Road, Fort Worth, TX 76108
817-246-9775
$5-$15
8:15pm Friday-Sunday
A wild, fun, and crazy ride through the cosmos, the creation, the miasma, the milieu, and the science that measures, explains, and tries to profit from it all. Narrated by an opossum—the only creature known to have been present at the big bang and who is also known not to have evolved one iota since that moment—the story is told through a fossil record with more gaps in it than my poor Uncle Bert's teeth right before he passed on. The first theatrical production this season to bring Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection to its final selection. The first waltz ever to be written based upon the chemical structure of DNA.


The Pitchfork Disney
by Philip Ridley


October 14 - 30 at Broken Gears Project Theatre
108 N. Sixth St., Garland, TX 75040
219-749-7010
$10-$25
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays
Broken Gears Project Theatre examines Ridley's new-age masterpiece that explores modern man's fascination with the horrific, the violent, the terrifying and the perverse. Haley and Presley live in an agoraphobic chocolate and pill-filled world after the unclear disappearance of their parents, until he arrival of sideshow performer, Cosmo Disney, and the looming menace of the companionship of his partner, the freak known as Pitchfork.


Bright Ideas
by Eric Coble
Presented by Circle Theatre


October 21 - November 20 at Circle Theatre
230 West 4th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-877-3040
$20-$35
7:30pm Thursday; 8pm Friday; 3 & 8pm Saturday
Dark, modern comedy about the pressure to get toddlers into only the finest pre-schools, and thus be ready for Harvard.


Looking Ahead...
The Rocky Horror Show
ArtCentre Theatre of Plano
October 22 - November 6
No Child...
Amphibian Stage Productions
October 28 - November 21
The Night of the Hunter
Lyric Stage
October 29 - November 7
Over the River and Through the Woods
Plaza Theatre Company
October 29 - November 20
Junie B., in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!
Dallas Children's Theater
November 19 - December 23
The Snow Queen
Dallas Children's Theater
November 26 - December 23
The Drowsy Chaperone
Theatre Three
December 2 - January 9
Almost, Maine
Terrell Actors Playhouse
December 3 - 12
Manos the Hands of Fate / Santa Claus vs. The Martians
Level Ground Arts
December 3 - 18
All This Intimacy
Amphibian Stage Productions
Monday, December 6
hard 2 spel dad
Dallas Children's Theater
February 4 - 20
Travesties
Theatre Three
February 10 - March 13
The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson
Terrell Actors Playhouse
February 18 - 27
The Roads to Home
Theatre Three
April 7 - May 8
The Fantasticks
Terrell Actors Playhouse
May 13 - 22
Pippin
Theatre Three
June 2 - July 3

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