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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!”

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

• 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 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.

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.

Fun House Theatre and Film brings a girl-powered black comedy to the stage this May with its production of Daffodil Girls, Inspired by David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. An ensemble of 8 young actresses ranging in age from 7-14 tackle the cadence, super realism and bleak satire of Mamet’s original work, set against the backdrop of a familiar rite of passage, the cookie sale. Acted by the ensemble as a drama, the comedy in the production comes from moving the high stakes world of Mamet’s real estate office to the tree house of the Daffodil Girls without removing any of the ugliness, desperation or conflict. Jeff Swearingen’s adaptation of the story is an homage to the original work, Mamet’s style and the actors who immortalized the roles on film.