Charmed Seat in the Afternoon Sun: One Thirty Productions

Dream of Godless Madness: Kitchen Dog's "Psychos never Dream"

As Minds Lie: Second Thought Theatre
A Lie of the Mind. I want to call it “LIES of the Mind”. All the characters in this play inoculate themselves from life’s painful realities with lies. Layers of ‘em. That’s only one aspect of Sam Shepard’s dramatic masterpiece about spousal abuse, family dysfunction and the path of self-destruction his despondent, degenerate [...]

My Nightmare on Pearl St.
Like most theatre-loving folks in Dallas and as a regional theatre critic, I was very curious to see what the experience of attending a performance at either the new Winspear Opera House or Wyly Theatre would be like. I got my chance this past Friday night, October 30, when Dallas Theater Center inaugurated its use [...]

Talk Radio at Upstart: Catch the ‘Tude
Tough to find a DVD of Oliver Stone’s 1988 screen adaptation of Eric Bogosian’s Pulitzer-winning play Talk Radio. A cult favorite flick featuring Bogosian and a fresh-faced Alec Baldwin, it’s not filed by the hundreds on the local Blockbuster shelf. People who know it OWN it. Ever seen it staged? Got the cojones to produce [...]

DTC’s Dream Inaugurates Wyly Theatre
Cedric Neal (Puck), Matthew Steven Tompkins (Oberon) Dallas Theater Center embarked October 30 on its new venture at the Wyly Theatre in Dallas’ Arts District with a visually stunning, hyper-kinetic take on William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mostly an adaptation that uses the Shakespeare classic as a launch pad, it sometimes felt like [...]

Waltzing A World Without Collisions: Master Harold…and the Boys
S. African playwright Athol Fugard must be one heck of an optimist. The son of an Afrikaner mother and a father of Irish Huguenot descent,  he began writing plays in 1959, plays that took direct exception to the bigotry and repression of the apartheid regime ruling S. Africa at the time. After his first play [...]