The plays of UTD performance studies professor Thomas Riccio aren’t easy to follow. They’re not supposed to be. Riccio comes from a long line of contemporary writers — Harold Pinter to Erik Ehn, Richard Foreman to John O’Keefe — whose surreal approach avoids, or at least subverts, the conventions of linear storytelling. Some People, the [...]
WaterTower Theatre Artistic Director Terry Martin has sent a letter to subscribers describing some changes in schedule the theater will undergo. The changes are in response to a decline in ticket sales this year attributed to the economic downturn. “WaterTower has been blessed with amazing box office success over the past few years, and our [...]
The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: The choices artists make sometimes are as interesting as the work itself. Take Doubt. It follows a ruthless nun accusing a priest of an inappropriate relationship with an altar boy. It won a Pulitzer as a play before becoming a film. The movie stars Meryl Streep as [...]
Tonight I am going to a preview screening of Doubt, the big-screen adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award-winning play. The film stars two of the best actors of our generation in the lead roles (Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman) and centers on a crime that may or may not have occurred at a [...]
If you are looking to get into some local holiday-themed shows on the cheap, here’s your chance. Dallas Theater Center is offering $10 tickets to A Christmas Carol for its performance on Monday, Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. To purchase the tickets, click here or call the box office at 214.522.8499 and use the promo [...]
Nancy Sherrard and Regan Adair star in Doubt, A Parable. With my Free Night of Theater ticket, I decided to check out Doubt, A Parable last night at WaterTower Theatre. Truth be told, I’m kind of a movie buff at heart, so I was mostly excited about seeing it ahead of the film version, which [...]
Jessica Wiggers and Regain Adair in Doubt The KERA radio version: The extended online story: The case of Rudy Kos, the Dallas priest who was convicted of sexual assault in 1997, made Dallas one of the first Catholic dioceses to be rocked by a sex abuse scandal – one of the first of dozens of [...]
For more information about shows and tickets, click here. To listen to the KERA radio story: Giving away thousands of free tickets would be a sure bet for getting some people in to see your stage show. That’s what 26 area theaters will do this October. Dallas is joining 120 cities in a nationwide program [...]
Next week, WaterTower Theatre opens A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – the classic musical by Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim. In this instance, “classic” doesn’t mean just “great” or “venerable” or “old and mostly forgotten,” but quite literally, “classic” in that the two main sources of the show are the [...]
