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Mayor’s Arts Panel: How Do We Get Artists to Live and Thrive Here?

Five Dallas arts leaders joined Mayor Rawlings onstage to talk about getting more artists here and keeping the ones we already have. The conversation, Rawlings admitted, was just a start.

DTC’s New Season: Novels into Musicals, Plus Big-City Social Justice

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Everyone’ll be hot for Les Miz, even after the movie. This’ll be the first Texas company to stage it. But you want something new? Try adapting Jonathan Lethem’s terrific 2004 novel, Fortress of Solitude.

‘Superman’ Cast for NYC

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The Dallas Theater Center’s 2010 ‘revisal’ of It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman has led to an Encores concerts version.

Radio Review: The Dallas Theater Center’s ‘King Lear’

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Today at noon on THINK on KERA, director Kevin Moriarty and actor Brian McEleney will discuss the Dallas Theater Center’s King Lear. We ran a lengthy online review, now here’s the radio version.

Review: ‘King Lear’ at the Dallas Theater Center

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It’s the Mt. Everest of Western drama; it took a co-production with Trinity Rep to bring King Lear to the Dallas Theater Center. The surprise is how quick, clean and clear it is. But the question is, does it reach the mountaintop?

Wednesday Morning Roundup

Videos on opera, videos on museums; reviews on Tigers Be Still, and thoughts on creativity. Dig in.

Dallas Theater Center to Bring Back Candy Buckley

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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.

National Theatre Conference Coming to North Texas

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.

'Mockingbird' Lands in N. Texas – in Different Ways

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.

Review: 'The Tempest' at the Dallas Theater Center

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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.

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