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The tall redhead joins the likes of Randy Moore and Nance Williamson — former Dallas Theater Center acting company members (and audience faves from the ’80s and ’90s) who’ve returned to the theater after many years away.

For the first time, the Theatre Communications Group’s national conference — the biggest nationwide gathering of non-profit theater professionals — is coming to Texas, to North Texas. We’ll teach ‘em what every artist learns here: how to do the fundraising two-step.

The current production of To Kill a Mockingbird at Casa Manana is the first collaboration between the Fort Worth company and the Dallas Theater Center — in 53 years. How’s that for a novel with a message of tolerance? But there are other forms Mockingbird will be appearing here.

The DTC opens its season with a stripped-down but fancied up Tempest. It’s director Kevin Moriarty’s best Bard to date because stripped-down and fancied-up, it plays like a heartfelt fairy tale — thanks to a couple of truly moving performances.

Today in the roundup: Dolly talks musical theater, the clamor for the DTC’s movable seats and the overused superlative.

Win tix to see this collaboration between the Theater Center and Dallas Black Dance Theater. Our winner also gets a special backstage experience.

Monday would have been Horton Foote’s 95th birthday. To mark the occasion and officially open the Horton Foote Festival — North Texas’ six-week-long, collective celebration of the author’s plays and films — a combination panel discussion and birthday party was held at the Winspear Opera House. All four of Foote’s children were in attendance, talking publicly about growing up with their playwriting-screenwriting father.

Beginning this week, seventeen arts organization from Dallas to Flower Mound, Fort Worth to Addison, will be presenting the plays and films of a single writer, Texas native Horton Foote. Other festivals have celebrated Foote’s work before. So why this one?

Yes, the Dallas Theater Center will be presenting a musical version of ‘Giant’ next season — along with a co-production with Casa Manana and three regional premieres. The full schedule complete with artistic director Kevin Moriarty’s promo video.