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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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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