If the commercials on TV aren’t proof enough that the Holidays have officially hit, you need look no further than the programming on area stages. Those Christmas shows pack ‘em in and pay the bills, so let’s take a look at some of them:
A NEW SCROOGE AT DTC: You’ll be seeing a new face playing [...]

Channel 8/WFAA reports that the Dallas Summer Musicals is giving the Majestic back to the city at the end of June, having already lost $1 million in running it.  The DSM’s president Michael Jenkins is quoted as saying, “When we first took over the Majestic Theater it was used 6 percent of the time. I’m [...]

A PRESIDENT COMES TO TOWN: With all of its stage and big-screen accolades, Frost/Nixon might be the most highly anticipated show of this year’s Dallas Summer Musicals season. Frank Langella won a Tony and was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of the disgraced president – big shoes to fill for his traveling replacement, [...]

SUPPORTING A LOCAL: It’s good to see the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth devote some prime space to a North Texan on the rise. Rosson Crow, who grew up in Plano before attending Yale, is the subject of the museum’s current Focus show. Her large-scale paintings remind us of a bygone era, with depictions [...]

BROADWAY AT THE BASS: Casa Manana released its schedule for its Summer Broadway at the Bass series over the weekend, and the thought that immediately jumps to mind is that each show also has a tie to some other incarnation. Three of the five (Little Shop of Horrors, Legally Blonde and Grease) were also successful [...]

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Fifty years ago, Casa Mañana introduced Fort Worth to theater-in-the-round. But the history of Tarrant County’s largest performing arts group predates that. Watch Casa’s President and Executive Producer Denton Yockey and Krys Boyd discuss theater back then, and what to expect this season [...]