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05/12/2008
'Cry-Baby' a superb entry in 'nice girl, dangerous boy' genre
NEW YORK – A nice girl falls for a dangerous boy who sings like Elvis: It's the fastest-growing genre of musical comedy.
05/11/2008
'A Catered Affair' not very engaging
NEW YORK – A Catered Affair is a little musical that modestly shrinks almost to invisibility.
05/08/2008
Set stars in Broadway's 'Sunday in the Park'
The set would be the star of the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park With George – if the actors weren't so sensational.
05/06/2008
'Mid-Life' winningly obsessed with inevitable
What do you want from a musical revue? Great singing? Big laughs? Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical has it all – if you're over 40 or so.
05/03/2008
Haydn's 'The Creation': A-
Haydn's largest, most grandiose work, The Creation , received many commensurately grand performances when it was new 200 years ago. These days, though, the fashion is to play classical-period works with small orchestras and even smaller choirs.
Rachmaninov: A-
Beethoven, Mozart: C+
Henry Brant, who composed piece for opening of Meyerson, dies at 94
American avant-garde composer Henry Brant, who died April 26 at 94, was famous for compositions widely spacing separate groups of performers.
05/01/2008
Beatles homage band works it out in 'Rain'
Rain — The Beatles Experience really conveys the power of the Beatles' music and makes their era come vividly alive onstage.
04/30/2008
DTC's 'Misanthrope' lacks Molière's delicate touch
One thing you can say for the Dallas Theater Center's The Misanthrope is that all the jokes land.
04/27/2008
Dallas Theater Center's David Kennedy exits to a new stage of life and work
David Kennedy is going to miss road trips to West Texas, his Oak Cliff apartment and the "refreshing straightforwardness" of Dallas folks.
Lyric Stage's Julie Johnson breathes life back into 'Hello, Dolly!'
IRVING – How do I love Julie Johnson? Let me count the ways ...
04/25/2008
'Sonnets for an Old Century' features frank, candid monologues
FORT WORTH – "We are the pages written in the book of God's mind."
04/24/2008
FireStarter's Jaime Castañeda supplies many demands on his talent
FORT WORTH – Jaime Castañeda has been rehearsing Sonnets for an Old Century all over the country – in New York and Los Angeles and his apartment living room in Las Colinas. Given his schedule, he hasn't had a choice.
04/19/2008
'Bent,' a drama about gays in Nazi era, needs a bigger spritz of freshener
04/16/2008
Dallas Summer Musical's 'Wedding' overdoes '80s
The Wedding Singer opened the '08 season with references to briefcase-sized cellphones, junk bonds and Cyndi Lauper.
04/15/2008
Premieres and musicals enliven Dallas Theater Center's coming season
The Dallas Theater Center takes a leap into new and uncharted waters with the 2008-09 season announced on Monday.
04/14/2008
'Violin Concertos': A
Schoenberg, Sibelius
04/11/2008
Actors find heart in difficult characters at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
Actors love to be loved. So Sue Loncar and Matt Savins have a lot of uncomfortable moments in Marvin's Room at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
04/08/2008
Mystery meets misery in Theatre Three's 'Whodunnit'
Anthony Shaffer invented the perversely convoluted stage mystery with his perennial hit Sleuth . He did his best to sink the new genre when he then wrote Whodunnit .
04/07/2008
Inspired silliness drives 'The Foreigner'
ADDISON – The Foreigner sets the art of writing plays back 200 years. In the right mood, though, you might find it entertaining – especially in the nifty production at WaterTower Theatre.
04/06/2008
'Marvin's Room' shows plenty of humor and heart
You expect to shed a few tears when a play's characters include a bedridden old man, his sister with a shattered back, a woman who discovers she has leukemia and a boy on leave from a mental institution. You might not necessarily expect a lot of laughs.
04/05/2008
Kitchen Dog stages powerful modern 'Richard III'
In the case of Kitchen Dog Theater's Richard III , less is a whole lot more.
04/04/2008
Second Thought brings out a 'Snake' charmer
ADDISON – Maxey Whitehead performs alongside six of Dallas' best actors in Snake Eyes at the Mardi Gras Motel . She mops up the stage with them.
03/30/2008
'Greendale' will have you revved up to save the planet
If you don't expect it to make too much sense, Greendale is an overwhelming experience, musically and theatrically.
03/29/2008
Deep Ellum titans combine for Neil Young's 'Greendale'
A few months ago, Bruce DuBose got an e-mail out of the blue from another Deep Ellum legend: Kenny Withrow was volunteering to help out with his new show.
03/26/2008
Familiar characters toast sin city in 'Tuna Does Vegas'
FORT WORTH – Texas loves its Tuna – even when the denizens of the fictional West Texas town abandon the state altogether.
03/27/2008
Arts center to bring in touring shows
Dallas will soon have two separate groups presenting Broadway shows.
03/23/2008
'Greater Tuna' gets the Vegas treatment
 Brenda Ladd Jaston Williams and Joe Sears in Tuna Does VegasJaston Williams and Joe Sears have been touring the country as the denizens of Tuna, their fictional West Texas town, since they opened their first show in 1981. Every so often, they concoct another sequel. Their fourth show, Tuna Does Vegas, premiered in Galveston last year and had a short run in the performers' hometown of Austin. They'll try out a revised and expanded version for Casa Mañana at Bass Performance Hall beginning Tuesday. They want to have the new show polished to perfection before they take it to Sin City itself. For a good long while, they hope.
03/22/2008
Naxos label presents Elliott Carter's String Quartets, 1 & 5
03/14/2008
Perky Act 2 helps redeem sluggish 'Petra's Pecado'
After the first act of Petra's Pecado , you might find yourself thinking it would take a miracle to save the show. After intermission, the miracle happens – and you have the Virgin of Guadalupe to thank for it.
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