Posted on 13 Feb 2013 at 10:56am
Steer is one of the ensemble members in the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes, which docks into the Winspear for 10 days starting Wednesday night. And he enjoys the chance to dress up like a seaman.
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Middle age spread
Posted on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:15am
The adults get their day — not always in a good way— in 3 new shows ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor “Getting older isn’t for sissies,” Bette Davis famously opined, and that’s never been more evident on North Texas stages. Three new productions look at middle age — and old age — in ways [...]
Broad strokes
Posted on 25 Jan 2013 at 10:00am
Uptown’s ‘B’way Our Way’ reinvents itself (again) with a toe-tapping show ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor The folks with Uptown Players will happily recount, if you ask them, how small they started out; how, in the first year of Broadway Our Way, their annual fundraiser, eight men sang songs written for women over [...]
Darkness falls
Posted on 18 Jan 2013 at 8:00am
Existentialism gets played for laughs (sort of) in ‘Penelope,’ ‘Bengal Tiger’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor I had pretty much assumed the local supply of severed limbs had been exhausted by the prop department for A Behanding in Spokane, but Theatre Three was able to turn up a spare for their regional debut, Bengal [...]
REVIEW: ‘A Behanding in Spokane’
The year in entertainment: Actor of the Year
Posted on 28 Dec 2012 at 9:30am
I first declared Denise Lee Dallas Voice’s “actor of the year” in 2003, and in the intervening years, eight more names have been added to that list: Mark Shum, Chamblee Ferguson, Nye Cooper, James Crawford, Kevin Moore, Elias Taylorson, Regan Adair and last year, Lulu Ward. In between, dozens of other names have appeared on [...]
The year in entertainment: Stage
Posted on 28 Dec 2012 at 8:15am
Our critics rank the best of 2012 in film, stage and music, and name our 10th Actor of the Year ARNOLD WAYNE JONES Life+Style Editor Click here for the Actor of the Year. Some years of theatergoing are better than others. This year was better — much better — than most. First, there were [...]
Circle Theatre reveals 2013 season
Posted on 17 Dec 2012 at 11:37am
Fort Worth’s Circle Theatre has announced its 2013 season (its 32nd), which begins in just a few weeks, and is top-heavy with comedies, albeit some very dark ones
STAGE REVIEW: ‘On the Eve’
Posted on 12 Dec 2012 at 12:28pm
With a score that deserves its own cast recording and a finale so beautifully tailored to the space by director Jeffrey Schmidt that it transforms you, On the Eve is destined to become a cult hit, a show the lucky few who see it will talk about for years.
Two-faced
Posted on 07 Dec 2012 at 8:00am
The good and bad in men provides the lesson for both ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor ………………….. ON THE BOARDS JEKYLL & HYDE at the Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. . Through Dec. 16. ATTPAC.org. A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Through Dec. 23. [...]
