Conversation
A week before the opening of the Dallas Theater Center’s season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater, Renegade Bus’ Peter Simek sits in the theater’s third row with Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty to discuss the preparations for the highly anticipated opening night.

Theater Review
Writer Stephen Cole and composer David Krane’s wacky re-telling of their most un-likely commissioning, The Road to Qatar, is an enchanting and hilarious piece of musical theater.

Theater Reviews
Grey Gardens at Water Tower Theater and My Sister in This House, produced by Wingspan Theatre Company.

Theater Review
While there are flashes of compassion, humor, and sorrow in Mary Poppins, relaying these emotions never quite seems the object of the production. The story seems a vehicle for the spectacle more than the spectacle an outgrowth of the story.

Theatre Review
Romans liked to orate; and they also loved their bread and circuses. What we find in Raphael Parry’s direction of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is much of both, sometimes clumsily married together, but often creatively and cogently done.

Theatre Three’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee brought audiences to its feet, but what makes the play attractive – its youth-like vigor and buzzing tempo – leave the musical feeling shallow.

Shakespeare Dallas’ Julius Caesar offers lots of spectacle, vivid sound effects, flashy swordplay and histrionics, but it is sure hard to follow the plot as presented or understand the nature and motivations of the key characters.

Theater Review
The Dallas Children’s Theatre’s Junie B. Jones & A Little Monkey Business drums up the difficulties of childhood with a little song and dance.

Theater Review
Kristin Dausch shines brightest in Lyric Stage’s sparkling performance of Funny Girl

Theater Review
The darkness and joys the soul can transmit are thoughtfully, and sometimes quite threateningly, brought to the fore in Echo Theatre’s production of Mauritius, directed by Terri Ferguson at the Bath House.