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Weekly improv shows from one of the area's longest running and best improv outfits. Shows at 7:30 and 10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday.

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE is off-Broadway’s longest running musical celebrating the mating game and exploring the joys of dating, romance, marriage, husbands, wives and in-laws.  It delivers a hilarious, bittersweet and refreshingly honest look at love and relationships.  The witty script and lyrics get down to the real meat of relationships glorifying such awkward, intimate and painful moments as bad first dates, meeting the parents, and being dragged to a dreaded "chick flick."  This musical revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, "Say, what are you doing Saturday night?" 

Uptown Players 2012 bonus show at the Rose Room Theater is another parody from Jamie Morris, the creator of the smash hits The Facts Of Life and Mommie Queerest entitled Silence of the Clams. In this parody of the 1990 Oscar-winning Jodie Foster/Anthony Hopkins thriller, butch FBI agent Clarice Startling is assigned to help find Nancy Pelosi's missing daughter and save her from "Beaver Bob," a serial killer who skins his victims "down there." Clarice attempts to gain better insight into the mind of the killer by interviewing Dr. Hannibal Lichter, a convicted psychopath who "eats" his female victims before he kills them. The twisted relationship forces Clarice not only to confront her own psychological demons, but leads her face-to-face with a demented killer so evil that even she may not have the courage—or strength—to stop him!

Cecil alibis to Officer Doughberg as he tries to explain why he and his partner, Pug, were caught in a funeral home in the middle of the knight.  He figures to confuse the policeman with fast talk and mumbo-jumbo.  Actually, they were there to heist a few trinkets, which is what Doughberg figured all along.  What nobody figured on was when Beulah Meadows, the owner of the place, showed up and recognized Cecil as her long lost son!   Cecil, it seemed, was really Jimmy Meadows who vanished from an amusement park some twenty five years earlier.  The two would-be burglars decide to stick around for a few free meals.  "After all," explains Cecil, "we didn't pull this stunt and it makes the old lady happy". This, of course, comes as a tragic shock to Beulah's daughters, who were just about to sell the funeral home for quite a bundle.  "We'll have to get rid of him," intones Gretchen, the oldest daughter, "one way or another'. Before you know it, the place is overrun with other-worldly sisters, whining lawyers, policemen, psychiatrists and nuns!  Is Cecil really there to help out his would-be mother?  Or is he sticking because he has a crush on Joan, the mortician?  And Is Cecil really Beulah's long lost son?  Find out in this frantic farce when two conmen set out to lift a few pieces of silverware and end up Stealing Home. 

Les Mis is a story of love and loss set against civil unrest in 19th century France . The musical is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel and has been translated into 21 languages performed in over 43 countries. Les Mis continues to captivate audiences, and is the second longest running show in West End history.  This production is rated PG for occasional use of mild profanity.

Sloane Davis is a big beautiful fish in a little pond. A well-educated, independent woman; successful by all standards...except in her love life. Navigating the dating scene is hard enough without dealing with "well-intentioned" friends, family, and evenstrangers...and battling her inner child. Will Sloane find the love that truly deserves her? This play is a step by step guide for women of all sizes on balancing family, career and LOVE. It’s an original comedy that will leave you in stitches.

Diary of Anne Frank was a dramatization of the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the personal account of a teenage Jewish girl in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. The diary, first published in the U.S. in 1952 and considered one of the most single important documents of World War II, has been translated into 55 languages and has captured the hearts of readers all over the world.

True stories of six wrongfully convicted defendants. “The #1 play of the year … intense and deeply affecting .. – The New York Times. Winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. 

Presented as a staged reading in Theatre Too!, Theatre Three's basement space.

Desperate to find money to pay for his floating crap game, Nathan Detroit bets Sky Masterson a thousand dollars that Sky will not be able to take a local Salvation Army girl, Sarah Brown, to Cuba. While Sky eventually is able to convince Sarah to join him, Nathan battles with his fiancé of fourteen years, Adelaide. Sky ends up falling in love with Sarah and tries to reform his gambling ways betting all the members of the floating crap game that if he wins his roll of the dice, they will all have to go to church and repent. If he loses, he will give them each a thousand dollars. He ends up winning and all the gamblers end up visiting the mission and repent of their sins, which are many.

Based on the tragic and real-life beating of a homosexual man in 1998, this compilation of interviews provides a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

Giacchino composed such film scores as Up!, Star Trek, Mission Impossible III, and music for the TV series Lost.

Harakiri is a ceremonial disembowelment specifically performed in front of spectators. This public self-execution creates a ritual of performance in the act of death. An idea that is at the basis of all performance--every moment you step on the stage could be your last; if you do not leave your soul out there for all to witness, if you do not die with every performance, have you lived honorably?

Upcoming shows:

• Sat. May 5: Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet, staging work from their repertoire, as well as giving you a taste of their first full-length ballet, Kaguya-Hime
• Sat. May 12: Big Rig Dance Collective and local filmmakers
• Sat. May 19: Michael Morris, Cody Ross, Andrew Blanton, and DGDG 

Presented in the Fine Arts Chamber Players' Bancroft Family Concerts series. 6th Annual Charles Barr Memorial Concert featuring award-winning pianist Kyle Orth.

Each week, the Open Stage provides an exciting opportunity to practice performance on a stage with an engaged and supportive audience. Performers sign up to show off their skills in a five minute time slot, which we film and share with the performer to help hone their craft. At the end of the hour-long variety show, the 6500 sqft of climate-controlled space becomes open to practice any and all types of performing art. 

Experimentation and interaction are welcomed and encouraged.

Dinner and Hookahs available

BYOB, or try the community punchbowl

Doors open at 7pm

8pm – 9pm : Open Stage Performances

9pm – 12am : Performer’s Playground

Singer and actress Amy Stevenson hosts this cabaret every Monday night at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas (sometimes at Tucker's Blues in Deep Ellum).

Upcoming guests:

• May 21: TBA

Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives.  

In a rare concert appearance, Chenoweth will perform songs from her latest album Some Lessons Learned, as well as an array of her most memorable songs and Broadway show tunes, including music from Wicked, Promises, Promises, and Glee.

KRISTIN CHENOWETH is an American stage, screen and television actress. Though, depending on who you ask, Chenoweth fans may disagree on what her most famous roles are. Since Chenoweth began her career, she has been credited with roles in musicals and plays on and off-Broadway, on various television shows and can be seen in movies on television and the big screen. She has also lent her recognizable voice numerous times to animated features. Most recently, you can see Kristin starring in Good Christian Belles airing Sunday, March 4 on ABC. 
Fans of Kristin Chenoweth, the stage actress, have seen her stealing performances in Steel Pier, Epic Proportions, and The Apple Tree. In 1999, Chenoweth received the Tony Award for her performance as "Sally" in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". Chenoweth is well-known as the originator of "Glinda" in the 2003 mega-hit musical "Wicked". The role, written with Chenoweth in mind, earned her a Tony Award Nomination amongst many other accolades. Chenoweth returned to Broadway in 2010, alongside Sean Hayes in the Broadway revival of "Promises, Promises". 

Chenoweth has recorded 3 studio albums. Those who know Kristin best from her various television performances remember her as the quirky, down on love, Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies (2007). The role won Ms. Chenoweth an Emmy Award in 2009 for Best Supporting Actress. She has also been seen on The West Wing (1999), Ugly Betty (2006) and has a reoccurring role on Fox's Glee (2009). She has also had a small part in the 2010 comedy, You Again (2010), Four Christmases (2008), Deck the Halls (2006), Running with Scissors (2006) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006). In 2009, Chenoweth took on the challenging role as "Linda" in the film, Into Temptation (2009). 

Former First Lady Laura Bush proudly serves as Honorary Chair of this performance recognizing our nation's military serving both near and far. In 2009, the United States Army Chorus, direct from Washington, D.C., made its Meyerson Symphony Center debut alongside the Turtle Creek Chorale to a sold-out house.

For their return, the Army Chorus brings selections from The Great American Songbook. Enjoy the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Stephen Foster, Rodgers & Hammerstein and many, many more!

Jazz songstress Madeleine Peyroux’s road to fame is as romantic as her sound. Having honed her vocal and guitar skills on the famously unique, acoustic streets of Europe, Peyroux’s style was inspired by jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. She is perhaps best known to her fans for intimately arranging covers of early American blues and jazz music. Some of her most notable albums include 2005’s Careless Love and 2009’s Bare Bones. Peyroux has collaborated with heavy hitters such as Joe Henry, Steely Dan’s Walter Becker and the Rolling Stones’ Bill Wyman, and went on tour last year with Diana Krall and Melody Gardot in Australia. Her new album will be released this year.

A Memorial Day tribute to our service members, this program will include Broadway tunes, movie medleys and other patriotic songs.

The popular farce about a man juggling affairs with three flight attendants in 1960s Paris.

This slot is yet to be announced, but it'll be directed by Susan Sargeant.

RUTH is the powerful retelling of the Hebrew/Old Testament story of Ruth and Naomi, setting it in contemporary American history, focusing on the issue of immigration. The centerpiece of the 2012 New Works Festival, accompanied by staged readings of new plays and the annual PUP Fest.

Melba Pattillo was 15 when she and eight other black students integrated the prestigious Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. They became known as the "Little Rock Nine." Melba's story shows surprising strength for a young girl. She wanted access to the lunch counter at the five-and-dime, to the "whites only" ladies rooms, to public water fountains, to the auditorium so she could see Elvis Presley, and, most of all, to a good education. Her memoir, Warriors Don't Cry, is a chilling account of the tumultuous year that changed her life and our nation's history. The stage play is a searing one-woman, one-hour adaptation of the Melba Pattillo Beals memoir by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Eisa Davis.

A former Baroness posing as a fortune teller, or is it a fortune teller posing as a Baroness advises thelead singer of a rock band and his manager on their future in White Liars. Black Comedy is an evening in the life of an inspiring artist trying to impress an art buyer, and his fiancée’s father. He and his fiancée “borrow” furnishings from his out-of-town neighbor’s apartment to jazz up his. Everything goes wrong when the fuses blow, causing a series of hilarious mishaps.

This transcendent story follows the life of Kaguya-Hime, the Moon Princess. Sent to Earth as an infant, she is found by the Bamboo Cutter, Taketori no Okina, who raises her as his own. When she matures to adulthood, the neighboring princes begin to notice her extraordinary beauty and flock to her, attempting to win her heart and her love. Even the Emperor finds himself falling for Kaguya-Hime, trying to gain her affection. But it's all to no avail, as Kaguya-Hime's heart belongs only to the moon.

The subscriber's special features a mother, a daughter, three possible dads and a trip down the aisle you'll never forget. Over 50 million people around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story, and the music based on the songs of ABBA that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel good show. Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings 3 men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The storytelling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives. With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, Mamma Mia! is the world's No. 1 show.

Two young married couples decide to take a weekend vacation together out by a lake. They've known each other since college and are best friends. What the men don't know is that their wives are having an affair. What the wives don't know is that their husbands aren't being faithful either. This play is inspired by the over-the-top Spanish Telenovelas and is written by our most popular and resident playwright Alejandro de la Costa.

Using the joint stock process, Nouveau 47 will be embarking on a journey talking to teachers, parents, students and politicians as we dive into a socially conscious experiment in collective creation.  Part Greek tragedy, part documentary style reenactment, Edu 20/20 is digging into the state of education. Directed by Tom Parr IV.

Back by popular demand! THE ARK is a new twist about the old familiar story of Noah and his family and what really happened inside that famous floating community. We see that when facing the challenges of life, we’re all in the same boat.