Event and performance schedules and information
for theater, dance, classical music, opera and
more in Dallas, Fort Worth and all North Texas

Masked tells the story of a fictional vaudeville & film star known as the first black actor to become a millionaire. Enveloped in Hollywood’s idea of being black, the legendary artist, Jarvis Blake, struggles to find his true identity. Criticized by his own race and marginalized by others, this one night in 1963, hear his story, his way, uncensored and uncut. One person speaks the voices of many in this unique and powerful theatre experience. Come join us for a night of storytelling, songs and laughter that you won’t soon forget!

In GOOD NUTS, it is another typical day, in a typical office.  The manager, salesman, and receptionist open the office, and begin their usual day in their usual way.  However, today is slightly different. First, a new employee has been hired, a worker.  Someone to do all the little jobs and "dirty" work in and around the office.  Second, the employees receive word that the President of the company is coming for a surprise inspection, and has a special request upon his arrival. These two events set in motion the crazy, absurdist comedy, GOOD NUTS. Relying on absurdist styles and physical comedy, GOOD NUTS explores the state of jobs, the economy, and employee/boss relations in America today.  Are we meant to work our lives away in small cubicle offices? How much are we willing to take at our jobs in order not to be unemployed?  And what are good nuts?  A new hilarious comedy from the Ochre House, sure to make your sides split with laughter, and maybe even think a little bit too.

Elledanceworks Dance Company invites you to attend the closing performance of season 16.

This is the story of hard work, being in the right place at the right time, talent and love. FORTY-SECOND STREET is a celebration of Broadway and the people involved in shows. It focuses on aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer, and takes us along her journey. Musical hits include You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me, Dames, I Know Now, We’re In the Money, Lullaby of Broadway, Shuffle Off to Buffalo and Forty-Second Street. Every audience enjoys watching the underdog succeed!

Jaap van Zweden, conductor

Alexander Kerr, violin

Sarah Joy Miller, soprano

John Osborn, tenor

Michael Todd Simpson, baritone

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Chorus, Joshua Habermann, director

• Barber: Violin Concerto
• Orff: Carmina Burana

Jaap van Zweden propels the heady musical celebration of fate, fortune, life and love with the Dallas Symphony Chorus, and co-Concertmaster Nathan Olson performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3.

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic in Lucy Prebbles new play. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, it follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009.

The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall and will welcome 30 of the world's finest young pianists to Texas. Continuing its longstanding commitment to new music, the Cliburn has selected composer Christopher Theofanidis to write the commissioned work that will be performed by all competitors during the Semifinal Round. Additionally, the Competition has been dedicated to showcasing both the extraordinary talent of its competitors in recital performance as well as their ability to collaborate with other musicians.

The Fourteenth Competition will mark the first Cliburn appearance by the world-renowned Brentano String Quartet performing a piano quintet with each of the 12 semifinalists. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, which has appeared at
every Cliburn Competition, will perform two concerti with each of the six finalists, under the baton of Maestro Leonard Slatkin for the first time.

Maestro John Giordano will serve as chairman of the jury for his eleventh competition since assuming the post in 1973.

Complete schedule is here.

Preliminary Rounds, May 24-30

• 11am-1:30pm
• 3pm-5:30pm
• 7:30pm-10:10pm

Semifinal Rounds, June 1-4

• 1:30pm-4:30pm
• 7:30pm-10:30pm

Final Rounds

• 7:30 p.m. June 7
• 7:30 p.m. June 8
• 3 p.m. June 9

Awards Ceremony

• 7 p.m. June 9

A Southwest Premiere. You know this guy. Stanley Lambchop is just like everyone else, but one night he makes a wish… and it comes true! In a whirlwind musical travelogue, Stanley - the ultimate exchange student—scours the globe to do something the world has never seen before, and learns that heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

The long-running Ad-Libs comedy troupe performs improv every weekend.

Theatre Three brings back its hit Avenue Q, the Tony-award winning puppet musical about college graduates trying to figure out life in New York City, to Theatre Too!

Here is our review from when the show first opened in 2012.

Two con men work the French Riviera - one seduces rich ladies, the other swindles women with made-up stories. When they attempt to work together they discover the town isn't big enough for the both of them. They agree the first to extract $50,000 from a young female heiress wins and the other must leave town. An outlandish battle of cons ensues.

August Wilson's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a former baseball play.

Sometimes it takes a blackout to see the light. A star-crossed prophecy.  Two charming sisters and a luckless sandwich maker.  A lot of music.  Just not a lot of light.  Conceived by Kim Rosenstock (Tigers Be Still) and written by her with songwriters Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick, this darkly comic and rock-musical romance follows a trio of young New Yorkers as they pine for love, and grope for flashlights, in the epic blackout of 1965.

Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day ‘Job” with a high maintenance wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household help.  Just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse, he is visited by “a Messenger from God” with a mission to test Joe’s faith  and report back to “the Boss”.  The jokes and tests of faith fly fast and furious as Neil Simon spins a contemporary morality tale.

2013 schedule:

• April 11-13 Brian Bradley
• April 18-29 Midnight Swinger
• April 25 TBA
• April 26-27 Collin Moulton
• April 28 Neal Brennan

Open mike nights on Wednesdays

2013 schedule:

• March 1-2 Tom Segura
• March 8-9 Tommy Blaze
• March 15-16 Chris Porter
• March 22-23 TBA
• April 5 TBA
• April 6 Bobcat Goldthwait
• April 12-13 Midnight Swinger
• April 19-20 Brian Bradley
• April 26-27 Bob Biggerstaff

Open mike nights on Thursdays

IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York's Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It's a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. IN THE HEIGHTS is the winner of the 2008 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Score, Choreography and Orchestrations.

This show tells the story of Patsy’s life through the songs Patsy made famous. Featuring hits Walkin’ After Midnight, She’s Got You and Crazy, to name a few, this moving tale will remain with you long after the curtain closes.

A romanticized account of the real story about the 1928 marriage of W.E.B. Du Bois's daughter Yolande to one of Harlem's most celebrated poets, Countee Cullen. The marriage was said to have marked the height of the Harlem Renaissance as it created a soical celebration around the perfect union of black talent and beauty. Secrets are revealed and truths come to light as we discover the scandal that rocked the renaissance.

A moving fairytale where cruelty, love, magic and poetry meet to bring you a literary jewel from Costa Rica. Performed in Spanish.

This Tony award-winning romantic comedy drama from the author of “Driving Miss Daisy” follows the Freitag family, owner of the Dixie Bedding Company, in Atlanta, December, 1939.   Gone with the Wind is about to premiere, and news of Hitler invading Poland is all over town, but the only important event for local Jews is Ballyhoo, a lavish cotillion at their exclusive Standard Club.  Wealthy Beulah “Boo” Levy is desperate for her plain daughter Lala to get a date for the dance, especially since Lala's attractive cousin, Sunny, from Wellesley College is going with a New Yorker named Joe Farkas. But it turns out Joe is a working class Jew from Brooklyn, and when he encounters snobbery and prejudice at the club, he walks out.  Will Sunny and Joe avoid the land mines of prejudice in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with comedy, romance and revelations. Directed by Bruce Coleman.

Presenting the most outrageously fun Broadway musical, a spectacular show that tells the uplifting story of a trio of friends on a road trip of a lifetime. Hopping aboard a battered old bus in search of love and friendship in the middle of the Australian Outback, they end up finding more than they could ever have dreamed.  An international hit with over 500 dazzling, Tony® Award-winning costumes, PRISCILLA features a hit parade of dance-floor favorites including “It’s Raining Men,” “Finally” and “I Will Survive.”  The Hollywood Reporter calls PRISCILLA “funny and fabulous!  Joyous entertainment with eye-popping visuals and unexpected heart!”

A man and a woman wake up to find themselves trapped in a room with no memory of how they got there or who they are.  As they push each other to piece the past together moment by moment, they struggle to understand how they managed to lose their daughter as well as their own identities.  In this story about living in every moment, Octavio Solis' characters take us on a turbulent journey that examines what it means to defy expectations and to become better than fate and circumstance have determined we should be.

Part of the 2013 New Works Festival.

For more about the second-stage production at the New Works Festival, Tim Johnson's One:Man.Show, click here.

For more about the staged readings and PUP Fest at the New Works Festival, click here

Texas Ballet Theater will finish the 2012-2013 Season with two weekends of TBT’s Springfest!  Weekend I May 3-5, 2013 (4 performances), we present the Dallas encore of Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries and Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena. Weekend II of the festival occurs May 24-26, 2013 (4 performances) and showcases George Balanchine’s beautiful Theme & Variations and Ben Stevenson’s Mozart Requiem. Audiences will delight in the glorious choreography, glittering costumes and the rigorous technical precision of this amazing Balanchine favorite that exhibits an endless fascination of a range of patterns in motion.   Festival attendees will be treated to the compelling emotional performance of Ben Stevenson’s Mozart Requiem.

The return of a much-requested favorite, about two Irish extras on a film shoot.  In County Kerry, an American production crew has set up residence, and their presence offers the locals opportunity, trouble, and temptation.  Two actors portray an ensemble of characters in this witty and engrossing play about how the little things can make a big impact.

When Cass discovers a shockingly dirty little secret in her husband's sweater drawer, our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she’s missed out on. It’s a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives, and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the water's edge in this hilarious tragicomedy of marital discord run amok. Directed by Mikey Abrams.

Featuring percussionists, Gregory Beyer, Timothy Feeney, Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, Douglas Perkins, Ian Rosenbaum

In 1967, a young astronomer detected in the heavens a rapidly varying radio signal. First taken to be signals coming from extraterrestrial civilizations, astrophysicists determined that the signals were being emitted by a pulsar, the fantastic compact residue created by the supernova explosions that long ago disintegrated massive stars. More than 20 years later, inspired by this discovery and those sounds, the composer Gérard Grisey wrote Le Noir de l'Etoile for six percussionists placed around an audience.

Undermain Theatre brings back its season-opening production of this adaptation of The Iliad. "Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Achilles." Homer's Iliad, an account of the ten-year Trojan War, is one of the canonical texts of Western literature. In An Iliad, a radical new vision of this timeless tale, Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare have restored Homer's classic to a single wandering poet who recounts a story of three thousand years of human conflict and destruction. Artistic director Katherine Owens illuminates literature's most influential ancient classic through the art of myth and story. Bruce DuBose and Paul Semrad perform against this mythic landscape and reveal Homer's epic in words and music.

A performance revue of one man's search for his authentic voice and his discovery that you must differentiate in order to integrate. Or a guy in a banana suit walks into a bar...

Part of the 2013 New Works Festival.

To see more about the New Works Festival mainstage production, Octavio Solis' Se Llama Cristina, click here.

For more about the staged readings and PUP Fest at the New Works Festival, click here

The Davis Street Collective, a new group of artists located in the Bishop Arts District, is producing Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis at the Davis Foundry in OakCliff. This marks the beginning of a series of productions to unfold throughout the year at the small gallery. In addition to noted works, the series is to include original texts by local playwrights.

The Davis Street Collective is a community of artists, working in various forms, dedicated to producing transformative theatre. Thus, they are excited to bring Sarah Kane’s compelling play to the forefront of Dallas’ thriving Bishop Arts District. The production is in the smallest, most intimate and unconventional space in Dallas, inviting an up-close, immersive experience.

Make reservations at reservations@davisstreetcollective.org.