Friday 06.15 — Sunday 07.07
‘The Lion King’ roars back into North Texas
Ah, the circle of life! Hakuna matata, folks! Can you feel the love tonight? Any of those phrases sound familiar? Of course they do, because Elton John and Tim Rice made them inescapable in the Oscar winning animated film The Lion King. But the stage musical, which won its year’s Tony Award for best musical, is a sensorial delight of its own, owing to director Julie Taymor’s masterful stagecraft and charming puppetry. Oh, and Simba is usually a nice bit of eye candy as well. The Lion King purrs into Music Hall at Fair Park for a three-week run.
DEETS: Fair Park Music Hall,
901 First Ave.
DallasSummerMusicals.org.
Friday 06.15 — Sunday 07.07
Timely Ibsen update ‘Enemies/People’ gets world premiere
Chekhov, Ibsen and Shaw are generally recognized as the 19th century playwrights who transformed theater into a modern art form, and of them, Ibsen was surely the most socially active. His 1882 play An Enemy of the People, about a doctor who calls attention to a public health crisis in his resort town only to be shouted down and suppressed by the craven citizenry, was the Inconvenient Truth of its day. Well, Dallas’ Blake Hackler noticed the same thing, and so freely adapted Ibsen for his world premiere updating Enemies/People, which officially opens tonight at Bryant Hall, courtesy
of Second Thought Theatre. Alex Organ stars.
DEETS: Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys campus,
3636 Turtle Creek Blvd.
2TT.co.
Friday 06.15 — Saturday 06.16
Bruce Wood Dance mounts summer show Harmony with world premiere and two classics
Despite the passing just a few years ago of its founder, Bruce Wood Dance continues to grow and innovate, as well as commission world premiere works. The latest premiere, from acclaimed New York-based choreographer Yin Yue, will share the stage of the Moody Performance Hall with two works from Wood’s archive: The Day of Small Things, and the stunning Rhapsody in Blue in a program named Harmony. Dallas Voice’s Arnold Wayne Jones will moderate the post-show Q&A each night.
DEETS: Moody Performance Hall,
2520 Flora St. 8 p.m.
BruceWoodDance.org
