Theater Jones
3636 Turtle Creek Blvd.
Kalita Humphreys Theater
Dallas, TX 75219
214-219-2718
Runtime: 2 hours
Almost everything about the casting and staging of The History Boys says that the producers at Uptown Players have been doing some homework.
Like the student characters in Alan Bennett's play, with this production Uptown has learned new tricks about impressing an audience by entertaining with a fresh dash of polish and sophistication. Known and appreciated for R-rated drag comedies, raucous musicals and gay-themed tributes to Broadway, Uptown now graduates to the ranks of serious professional regional theater.
This is their best straight play (in the theatrical, not sexual sense) yet. Nothing they've done in eight seasons at what is now the KD Studio Theatre (formerly Trinity River Arts Center) has been so skillfully directed and artfully designed (Bruce R. Coleman did both). And lest Uptown's core audience think they've veered too far toward art, thanks to the eight young actors playing the title roles in The History Boys, this show also achieves a high degree of male hotness.
Read the rest of the review at Dallas Observer online.
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