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

The strings of Hall Ensemble warm a winter's night with virtuoso selections from the 19th and 20th century including Dohnanyi's masterful string trio. Kevin Hall will showcase the bassoon in the lively and beautiful Danzi Quartet in g minor for bassoon and strings. Doors open at 6:45.

An explosive new musical comedy that raises the stakes on over-the-top-high school rivalries, Bring It On! Is set against the world of competitive cheerleading. The powerhouse new show hilariously proves that winning isn't everything when it means losing something, or someone, you really care about. This entirely original musical comedy combines an exciting new sound, gravity-defying choreography, and a thrilling story to create a total theatrical event worth cheering for. Game On!

Dallas Comedy House is the premier training center and performance venue for comedy in Dallas! We have affordable, quality shows five nights a week. We also house a training center with classes in improv, sketch and production. Our creative team hosts everything from workshops for small, local business to large scale video and sketch productions for fortune 500 companies.Whether you’re looking to launch a career in comedy, plan an original, creative event for your company or organization, or just want a fun night out full of laughs, we’ve got something for you. DCH is Dallas’ source for fun, creative, people. Check us out, you’ll like what you see!Dallas Comedy House is located in Deep Ellum, just east of Downtown Dallas. Metered parking is available on Commerce Street for $.50 per hour after 6PM on weekdays and all day and night on weekends. (Free parking M-F until 6PM!) There is also a pay lot directly across the street from our theater and it is $2 until 6PM and $5 on nights on weekends.

Dixie Longate brings back her one-woman show in which she hosts a Tupperware party. Some audience members will win prizes.

Mean is a metaphysical musical comedy about the first meeting of Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson and Squeaky Fromme. It's love at first sight as Charles Manson (pre-Bianca/Tate murders) walks into a roadside bar in 29 Palms, California and meets Tex and Squeaky Fromme for the first time. Featuring original music by Justin Locklear.

Big Love by Charles Mee
Of this modern retelling of Aeschylus’s story of the 50 daughters of Danaus who run away from an arranged marriage with their cousins, The Guardiansaid, “Chuck Mee shakes up fragments of an ancient Greek trilogy, adds some 21st century preoccupations, and serves it up, with a knowing wink, on the Italian Riviera.” It’s delightful, witty, athletic, coolly ironic, and....fiercely entertaining!

Living Out by Lisa Loomer
Described variously as searingly funny, disturbing, generous, merciless, sympathetic and engrossing, this play explores the complicated story of a Salvadoran nanny and the Anglo lawyer she works for as it open-heartedly examines the prejudices and misconceptions between two cultures. It asks: How do we make someone “the other” and what is the cost of doing so?

Interim by Barbara Cassidy
In a world of hypnotic rhythms, unpredictable characters and lyrical language, we are introduced to Joya, who is “staring at the world until it cracks to reveal what’s in the interstices ….magic – pure hoodoo.” Interim is a marvelously seductive challenge to conventional structure, language and characterization by Barbara Cassidy, whose work has been seen at Flea Theatre, Little Theatre, Dixon Place, the New York International Fringe Festival and Bric Studios. Ms. Cassidy will be in attendance on Feb. 22; this is the first-ever full production of Interim.

On the heels of its award winning world premiere of Len Jenkin’s Port Twilight, Undermain continues its collaboration with this Obie winning, American master. In the shadowy and fantastical world of Time in Kafka, an assistant professor at a small American college dreams that Kafka left the manuscript of an unknown novel at a sanatorium on Lake Garda in Italy. He follows the mad dream and travels there to find the lost Kafka novel and in the process, slips back in time into a familiar yet very different world. A play about love, literature, dreams, obsessions and Kafka. World premiere.

The NT Live series from the National Theatre in London continues with Nicholas Wright's new play Travelling  Light.

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is  entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of storytelling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams. 

Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher – whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley – returns to play Jacob.

The NT Live screenings show at the Angelika Film Center Dallas and Angelika Film Center Plano; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, presented by Amphibian Stage Productions; and also at other Metroplex theaters via Fathom Events.

Complete showtimes and locations are:

7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 at Cinemark 14 Cedar Hill (280 Uptown Blvd., Cedar Hill) and Cinemark 14 Denton (2825 Wind River Lane, Denton), see Fathom Events site.

2 and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22 at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23 at Angelika Film Center Dallas

2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Angelika Film Center Dallas

2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 at Angelika Film Center Plano

7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28 at Angelika Film Center Plano

Dallas Opera presents the Wagner masterpiece in a new, fully staged modern dress production.

A collection of scenes from 30 years of Greater Tuna and its sequels.

The season begins with Pluck the Day by Steven Walters. Straight off its New York premiere at the Araca Group, this revamped version of Pluck the Day will feature live music by local Dallas musician Greg Schroeder. Matt Gray will direct the comedy, which stars Clay Yocum, STT Co-Artistic Director Chris LaBove and STT Co-Founder Mike Schraeder, who appeared in an earlier version of the play at Second Thought Theatre in 2003 in Frank's Place in the Kalita. The Story: Duck's drunk, Fred's been eating peyote again and Bill's not as gay as they originally thought he was. On a sun drenched, emotionally challenged parcel of the West, Texas landscape, three friends are held captive by addiction, fear and apathy as they wait for salvation.

The Backdoor features the hottest comics in North Texas with credits from Last Comic Standing, BET and Comedy Central. The eclectic lineup features eight or more comedians each night, consisting of local pros and nationally touring comics.

Open mike on Thursdays.

Twain’s timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim, a slave, escape to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Their adventures along the way are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming, bringing to life your favorite characters from the novel-the Widow Douglas and her stern sister, Miss Watson; the uproarious King and Duke, who may or may not be as harmless as they seem; Huck’s partner in crime, Tom Sawyer, and their rowdy gang of pals; Huck’s drunken father, the sinister Pap Finn; the lovely Mary Jane Wilkes and her trusting family. Propelled by an award winning score from Roger Miller, the king of country music, this jaunty journey provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana.

The place is a communal residence where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth.

Hannah is trying desperately to hold the façade of her perfect life together, even as her husband mysteriously calls in sick to work day after day. The couple struggles with infertility, and Hannah herself is on the verge of being laid off. When her sister appears on their doorstep, she brings with her a feisty, renegade attitude and an illicit package that sends the family on an odyssey into some of the quirkier corners of Minneapolis and into the heart of their deepest fears. This comedy about surviving and transcending was inspired by the 2007 collapse of the Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis.

Nineteen pasters in 19 years and it's only Reverend Thompson's third day as the newest pastor. Can he survive entrenched traditions and bring new life to a church full of cynics and kooks? Watch God as he works in his mysteriously funny ways.

A winner of Echo's Big Shout Out playwriting contest!

It’s 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." Separated by 2,000 miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge. Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogel, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy? “The turning point of the 20th century wasn’t ON television. It WAS television.

This legendary musical tells the story of Tevye, a dairyman, who is attempting to live a normal life filled with Jewish traditions in early twentieth century Russia. He is also searching for appropriate husbands for his three eldest daughters - Tzeital, Hodel and Chava. In a break with tradition, his daughters refuse to accept the wishes of the matchmaker, Yente, and their father. Instead, they marry men that they love. Meanwhile, Russians are instigating terrible pogroms against the Jewish people in Russia. In the end, the Jews of Anatevka are forced to leave their homes and Tevye is determined to start a better life in a new land.

The annual revival of the popular revuesical about romantic relationships.

A first-of-its-kind cinema event debuts in movie theaters across the country for only one night -- LEONARDO LIVE, a cinematic tour of the sold-out National Gallery (UK) exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan", created especially for movie theater audiences. Presented by NCM Fathom, BY Experience and PhilGrabskyFilms.com, LEONARDO LIVE appears on the big screen on Thursday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m. local time.

At the following local theaters at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16:

• AMC Mesquite 30
• AMC Parks at Arlington 18
• Cinemark 17 with IMAX (Dallas)
• Cinemark Tinseltown Movies 17 (Grapevine)
• Cinemark Vista Ridge Mall (Lewisville)
• Cinemark Frisco
• Cinemark Allen 16
• Cinemark 24 (The Legacy, Plano)
• Cinemark West Plano
• Cinemark 12 Rockwall
• Cinemark 14 Denton
• Cinemark 14 Cedar Hill
• Cinemark 12 Town Center (Mansfield)
• Cinemark 12 Sherman
• Cinemark Athens Cinema 4
• Cinemark Movies 8 (Paris)
• Cinemark Cinema 6 Stephenville
• Hulen Movie Tavern (Fort Worth)
• Regal Galaxy Theatre (Dallas)
• Regal Fossil Creek (Fort Worth)

Also showing at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (co-presented by Amphibian Stage Productions)

And at the following times at the Angelika Film Centers in Dallas and Plano:

• 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18
• 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21
• 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23

The last of the distinguished American playwright's major artistic, critical and box office successes. The play focuses on sexual relationships and odd characters, and many argue that Williams reveals more of himself in this play than in any of his previous works. Williams veers off in many philosophic directions in this searing pastoral, but the play's most poignant moments—scenes of enormous compassion—grow out of the understanding of two people, their mutual need for companionship, and their final moments of nobility in small gestures of unselfish aid to one another. The Night of the Iguana won Williams his fourth New York Drama Critics Award and was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Richard Burton and Ava Gardner. Ashley Wood will play Reverend Shannon. Directed by René Moreno

A young girl’s coming of age story composed of five autobiographical vignettes that begin with her premature birth and end with her first solo performance in her church's junior choir. Whispering secrets, imitating the people of her life and even bursting into song, the author fills the stage with giddy laughter, haunting memories and the pure joy of innocence. 

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins – Gaynelle, Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette – could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion.  Their outrageous antics have set tongues wagging in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out.  Having “accidentally” crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown.  Peaches, the saucy number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead.  And Jimmie Wyvette, the roughhewn store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower.  But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now.  It’s on and Gaynelle’s hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist.  Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor’s pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love and a shocking high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake.  As this fast-paced uproarious romp barrels toward its surprising climax, you’ll wish your own family reunion was this much fun!

This engaging comedy features three women who reluctantly take the field in a "mothers vs. sons" soccer game. The plan is to let the children win, but as the game unfolds, the ladies become obsessed with scoring points. In the end, they discover that true victory lies in achieving a better understanding of themselves and the changes they need to make in their lives.

Dallas playwright and former sports writer Larry Herold takes a comic look back at a Dallas Cowboys training camp in 1966, when the whole media world is about to change. Television has landed in the form of the first woman reporter in a man’s world. Look what has happened to the newspapers since!

A new play by Matt Lyle. The story: Mike is a chicken. He's also chicken. He wants to be a film maker but is too scared to try. He's in love with Polly but is too afraid to tell her. He's every bully's dream, but when a monster moves into town, Mike will have to face all his fears to save the day. The Chicken Who Wasn't Chicken is an action, adventure, horror, romantic comedy for the whole family.