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Betty Buckley brings her acclaimed show, in which she performs Broadway songs originally sung by men, including "Maria" from West Side Story, "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin and aSweeney Todd medley of "Not While I'm Around," "Johanna" and "My Friends." Christian Jacob music directs and accompanies on piano.

The Tony-winning rock musical based on the concept album by pop-punk group Green Day

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.

Filled with razor sharp wit and humor, as well as blooming romance, it asks the question, Can the English gentleman bamboozle the ladies or will the importance of his name spoil his game? This is a must-see classical comic treat!

From the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, comes a hot new Broadway musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs, and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love. Inspired by actual events, Memphis is about a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black club singer who is ready for her big break. Come along on their incredible journey to the ends of the airwaves, filled with laughter, soaring emotion and roof-raising rock 'n' roll. Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

Two 11-year-old boys have had a run-in on the playground, and some very bad behavior ensues... by their parents. When two supposedly civilized, supposedly adult middle-class couples meet to discuss their sons’ little dust-up, they raise smugness, pettiness, and meanness to heady new heights of hilarity. You’ll have endless fun repeating their deliciously snarky remarks. After its sold-out run on Broadway, this Tony Award-winning comedy makes its regional debut at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.

A psychological thriller with comic leanings of the darkest intent, The Birthday Party is a study in the power of opposing forces. A sudden shifting of moods-from cozy domesticity to palpable fear-is precisely what defines The Birthday Party and what gives it a continuing immediacy. The anti-hero, Stanley, is holed up in a seedy seaside boarding house lorded over by his dotty landlady and her docile husband. He’s seemingly hiding out from some unknown danger, which arrives in the form of the mysterious stranger Goldberg and his sinister Irish henchman McCann. They arrive to pluck Stanley from his domestic exile as they prepare for a menacing celebration even though he insists it’s not his birthday. Directed by Patrick Kelly.

A dedicated Union nurse and a mysterious Confederate refugee meet on the Shiloh battlefield to compete for the title of Best Female Reenactor of the Year. With their young trainees trying to out-do each other in "authenticity," and a concessionaire egging both sides on, their competition leads them into real conflict with Ranger Wilson, an African-American female park ranger who would rather be anywhere than the year 1862, imaginary or not. As the re-enactment rages out of control, all six women discover that some conflicts of the Civil War weren't left behind in 1862.

CICERONE is a deconstruction of Henry Miller’s infamous novel, Tropic of Cancer, which is a re-accounting of Henry’s Miller’s sordid life in Paris in the 1930’s as an ex-patriot and as a young man who was looking for his voice in writing. In grand OCHRE HOUSE style, gay Paris of the ‘30s explodes on stage with live, original music, dance and riveting scenes of passion and abandon that depict Miller’s “coming to terms” with his wanderlust, his life as a writer and as a lover.

CICERONE begins with Henry Miller (MATTHEW POSEY) as an old man reminiscing about his life as a young man.  The play wrecks back and forth between the older Henry’s romantic stories regaling the past and scenes of his past that depict the true state of his young life in Paris.  Bedbugs, broken zithers, and stinking drains— thwarted love, star-crossed lovers, dysfunctional relationships and the ship of fools that prodded him onto destruction. As Henry puts it in CICERONE, “Love is self-delivered sock in the jaw.”

An original popcorn-tossing spoof of the Sax Rohmer stories.

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.

The second offering for the year comes from a recent Dallas native Matt Lyle. Co-founders of Bootstraps Comedy Theatre, Lyle and his wife Kim moved their company to Chicago in 2008. Following the silent-film-on-stage format of Lyle's hit play The Boxer, The Better Doctor playfully satirizes the obstacles presented by the American healthcare industry. It's a live-music spectacle equipped with subtitles and slapstick gags for the whole family to enjoy. That's right. Bring your babies.

Mrs. Savage, a wealthy idealistic widow “committed” by her devious step-children, gets the last laugh as the audience smiles.   

Regional Premiere. "The passion, the power, the pulse…Maria and her ghost will tell you of the nightly death of tango…" Astor Piazzolla’s musical story tells the story of a woman… and the story of the tango. Part musical, part tango, part theatre, part ballet, and part opera, Maria de Buenos Aires caters to all the senses by pairing expressive, live orchestral music, the passionate rhythm of the tango, and the surreal poetry by Horacio Ferrer to creating a melting pot of Latin sensuality straight from the streets of Buenos Aires… Sung in Spanish with English subtitles.

“A Nice Family Gathering” is a story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her. It’s Thanksgiving Day and the first family gathering at the Lundeen household since the Patriarch died. At the gathering, Dad comes back as a ghost with a mission; to tell his wife he loved her, something he neglected to tell her while he was alive. After all, they were only married for 41 years. The problem is, she can’t hear or see him. The trouble begins when Mom invites a date for dinner.

The story of the famously brassy newspaper columnist who wrote for the Dallas Times-Herald and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and as a frequent op-ed contributor for the New York Times and the Washington Post. A true Texas original, who skewered the political establishment and the “good ol’ boys” with sharp-tongued wit and wisdom. This one has been a smash wherever it has played to date.

The King family is used to being broke, but when their father is diagnosed with a serious illness, sons Ennis and Malcolm must clearly decide where their loyalties lie. This powerful new play by a brilliant young writer brings new perspectives on the struggles of the next generation. A co-production with Houston's Ensemble Theatre.

Flesh World follows K-Low a sexy, violent and deeply troubled undercover spy on a mission with her anthropomorphic team, Mister Joe and Jimmy Mac. They are not of this world and things are not as they seem. K-Low’s mission increasingly gives way to voices and questions, entering a fantastical world wavering between the material and ephemeral, the living and the dead, the present and the eternal.

The Dallas Black Dance Theatre closes its season with a program that includes Alvin Ailey's Escapades; Absolute Rule (1994), choreographed by Elisa Monte; Forces and Prize, choreographed by Jamel Gaines; Etudes & Elegy (1990), choreographed by the late Gene Hill Sagan; and Testosterone 2011), choreographed by DBDT company member Richard A. Freeman, Jr.

Just before World War II, Angelica and Richard, a Navy sailor, meet and fall deeply in love. Years later, her granddaughter Angie, who longs for a good man herself, discovers the passionate letters Angelica received from Richard. Infused with humor and tragedy, the play deftly interweaves the wartime events with Angie's response to their growing love through these letters. Then, as Richard says, "This war changes things," and a strange twist of fate unexpectedly ripples through the lives of the wartime couple and the generations after them. Another world premiere by a Dallas playwright.

Locked OUT Comedy is head-to-head competitive improvisational comedy presented in a high energy format. It's clean, fast and fun entertainment for all audience. All dialog spoken and scenes performed are entirely made up on the spot. That’s right! No scripts! The Players play for the audience’s laughs to earn points, and the audience participates throughout the show by voting for their favorite improv games/scenes/Players. With over 100 different games, untold numbers of audience suggestions and the always-changing audience, we guarantee a completely new Locked OUT Comedy experience each and every visit, but with always hilarious results. 

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

Presented by Casa Manana Children's Theatre.

Terrell Actors Playhouse's presents the classic William Inge drama.

Presented in the Artie's Playhouse series. All the enchanting characters are here in this beautiful, knowing play about friendship: Wilbur, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton, the gluttonous rat; and, most of all, the extraordinary spider, Charlotte. Determined to save Wilbur, Charlotte begins her campaign with the “miracle” of her web in which she writes, “Some pig.” It’s the beginning of a victorious campaign which ultimately ends with the now-safe Wilbur doing what is most important to Charlotte.

“Cycle” is a new contemporary dance piece about the beginning, highlight and ending of a relationship by local dancer and choreographer Favian Herrera. “Cycle is danced by Alyssa Rubio and Madi Frampton. 

"Pizcas" by Margarito Rodríguez is a story adapted and directed by Cora Cardona

“Pizcar” means picking a small item, and in the content of our play it implies to pick one cotton bud at a time. This monologue performed by Alejandra Flores, with the support of dancers, mixes narrative and action allowing the audience to travel with an 11-year-old migrant worker to the cotton fields of Texas.

Drama and Humor bring to life the important and often untold story of the life, of children workers and their contributions to our communities, tables, and clothing. "Pizcas" directly addresses the diversity of Texas while preserving our local heritage through a production, which reflects our past and present.

The coolest ever rock-n-roll romp in a bug’s world, capturing all the droll humor and whimsy of the wildly popular books. You might just find that a bug’s life is not all that different from your own. A Southwest Premiere! 

The Fort Worth Opera Festival 2012 features three mainstage shows and one studio production. The shows are Puccini's Tosca, Jake Heggie's Three Decembers, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Mark Adamo's Lysistrata. All performances at Bass Hall, except Three Decembers, which will be at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center's Scott Theatre.

Schedule of 2012 Festival Performances

Saturday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. Tosca at Bass Hall

Sunday, May 13, 2 p.m. Three Decembers at Scott Theatre

Friday, May 18, 7:30 p.m. Three Decembers at Scott Theatre

Saturday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. The Marriage of Figaro at Bass Hall

Sunday, May 20, 2 p.m. Tosca at Bass Hall

Sunday, May 20, 7:30 p.m. Three Decembers at Scott Theatre

Friday, May 25, 7:30 p.m. Tosca at Bass Hall

Saturday, May 26, 2 p.m. Three Decembers at Scott Theatre

Saturday, May 26, 7:30 p.m. Lysistrata at Bass Hall

Sunday, May 27, 2 p.m. The Marriage of Figaro at Bass Hall

Thursday, May 31, 7:30 p.m. Three Decembers at Scott Theatre

Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m. The Marriage of Figaro at Bass Hall

Saturday, June 2, 2 p.m. Three Decembers at Scott Theatre

Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m. Tosca at Bass Hall

Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m. Lysistrata at Bass Hall