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    Actor Spotlight

    BBQ devotee Luke Longacre returns to Fort Worth stage after Broadway detour

    Lindsey Wilson
    Jul 8, 2013 | 10:05 am

    In the musical Greek comedy The Frogs, Luke Longacre played one of the bouncing amphibians opposite Nathan Lane on Broadway. Now he's gearing up to make his debut at Amphibian Stage Productions in The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged).

    Longacre is no stranger to local, having appeared at Dallas Theater Center, Casa Mañana and WaterTower Theatre, but lately the University of Oklahoma graduate might be more recognizable to his students at Seguin High School in Arlington, where he teaches theater.

    He recently took the time to fill out our survey of serious, fun and sometimes ridiculous questions.

    Name: Luke Longacre

    Role in The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged): Luke Longacre (and many other biblical characters)

    Previous work in the DFW area: Slim in The Traveling Lady at Watertower Theatre; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Bass Hall; The Who’s Tommy at Dallas Theatre Center; Monty in Violet at WaterTower Theatre; Charlie in the Box in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer at Casa Mañana; choreographer for The Jungle Book at Casa Mañana

    Favorite song: “Breath of Heaven” from Amy Grant’s Home for Christmas album. I listen to this year-round.

    Dream role: Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Favorite play(s): The Crucible

    Favorite musical(s):West Side Story

    Favorite actors/actresses: Robin Williams

    Favorite food: Meat and potatoes! Steak is my favorite — and mashed potatoes with lots of butter!

    Must-see TV show(s): Friday Night Lights, The Office and Joan of Arcadia

    Something most people don’t know about you: I am afraid to speak in front of people.

    Place in the world you’d most like to visit: New Zealand

    Pre-show warm-up: A combination of physical and vocal. I start with calisthenics to get blood pumping. Then do some breath exercises (while rolling around on the floor), then vocal sirens up and down. Lip trills, then the “string breath,” which is where you pull at the imaginary string from your belly button and release your breath on an “ooo,” and it goes wherever it wants to go, and you have to follow it with your eyes until your breath runs out.

    Then I usually do a few vocal scales and a bit more stretching. However, sometimes if I don’t have a lot of time, I just drink a Diet Coke.

    Favorite part about your current role: The millions of things I get to do. I love the variety of the show. [I'm] not stuck in one type of role or character.

    Most challenging part about your current role: No break time! I think the most time off stage I have is 30 seconds. It’s exhausting but tons of fun!

    Most embarrassing onstage mishap: When I played the Production Tenor in Singin’ in the Rain at Granbury Opera House, I was wearing a tuxedo with a top hat and tails. They had added suspenders to my costume at the last minute. I had a quick change into them and decided not to put them over my shoulders.

    I thought they were tucked into my pants, but when the audience started laughing when I went onstage (at me, not with me), I knew something was wrong. I came off stage and realized I had stepped into the suspenders and they were wrapped around my crotch.

    Career you’d have if you weren’t a performer: News anchor

    Favorite post-show spot: Dallas: Lucky’s Cafe. Fort Worth: Ol’ South Pancake House.

    Favorite thing about Dallas-Forth Worth: The balance of community and family with culture and diversity. And I love me some Texas BBQ!

    Most memorable theater moment: I was in the Broadway cast of The Frogs in 2006. Stephen Sondheim wrote the music back in the 1970s for the original production produced at Yale. For our production, he had written several new songs.

    My most memorable moment was when he sang “Ariadne,” a song he had written for Nathan Lane’s character, in front of the entire cast on the first day of rehearsal. It was breathtaking to see a musical genius singing his own brand-new song no one had ever heard before. I had to pinch myself to make sure it was real.

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    The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) plays at Amphibian Stage Productions from July 11-August 11.

    Luke Longacre, Brandon J. Murphy and Scott Zenreich in The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged).

    The cast of "The Bible" at Amphibian Stage Productions
      
    Photo by Daylon Walton
    Luke Longacre, Brandon J. Murphy and Scott Zenreich in The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged).
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    Season Announcement

    Dallas Theater Center finds rhythm and rhyme in 2025-26 season

    Lindsey Wilson
    Apr 2, 2025 | 5:31 pm
    Ragtime at City Center Encores
    Photo by Joan Marcus
    "Ragtime" was recently staged in New York by City Center Encores.

    The 2025-26 season for Dallas Theater Center is a mix of classic and new, large and small, and it even raises the curtain on more collaborations with the Tony Award-winning regional theater.

    This season includes the launch of a three-year partnership between Dallas Theater Center and Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth, as well as a multi-year partnership with SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and the Sexton Institute for Musical Theatre. An ongoing collaboration continues with TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and DTC will newly partner with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra on a concert to be performed at Bass Performance Hall featuring FWSO, conducted by Robert Spano, and actors from DTC’s Brierley Resident Acting Company, directed by DTC's executive director Kevin Moriarty.

    “Collaboration is at the heart of DTC’s mission,” Moriarty says. “It’s wonderful to join with TheaterSquared to support Jonathan Norton’s brilliant playwriting and introduce his work to a national audience. Further, by partnering with Stage West Theatre, SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and the Sexton Institute for Musical Theatre, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, we are able to expand opportunities for artists, introduce new audience members to the arts, and enrich our artistry. I’m grateful to be surrounded by so many talented, visionary artists and arts leaders here in North Texas and honored to be partnering with them this season.”

    “In curating Dallas Theater Center’s 2025-26 season, I chose to follow my mission as a playwright, which is to break down barriers through the shared joy of great storytelling,” says interim artistic director Jonathan Norton. “And the five shows in our upcoming season will do just that."

    First up is the classic slapstick farce Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by Ashley H. White.

    This play-within-a-play plunges you into the chaotic world of Nothing’s On, a fictional touring production tormented by backstage romances and onstage blunders. From flubbed lines to slamming doors, witness the hilarious unraveling of a troupe of eccentric actors. It runs October 3-26, 2025, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.

    Next is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham by James Ijames, a co-production with Stage West that's directed by vickie washington.

    In this Dallas premiere of the hit Broadway comedy, Juicy’s got a lot on his plate — his mom just married his uncle. All he wants is to make his own way as a queer Black man in a Southern family. But here’s the rub: his father’s ghost just turned up at a backyard barbecue demanding vengeance. In this delicious and sizzling reinvention of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, a young man vows to break the cycles of violence in service of his own liberation and joy. It runs January 30-February 8, 2026, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater

    The regional premiere of Donnetta Lavinia Grays' Where We Stand, another co-pro with Stage West, follows.

    Directed by Akin Babatunde, Broadway actor and Dallas legend Liz Mikel plays a lone storyteller who weaves a world through music and magic — part fable, part call-and-response. Your town stands at a crossroads. A neighbor — desperate and out of options — has struck a dangerous bargain. Now, their fate lies in your hands. In this interactive play presented as a town hall gathering, the audience must choose: mercy or justice? The future of the town — and the fate of a soul — hang in the balance. This isn’t a game. It’s your choice. It runs February 27-March 22, 2026, at Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys Theater campus.

    The grand, sweeping musical Ragtime will be produced in partnership with SMU and AT&T Performing Arts Center, with direction and choreography by Sexton Institute for Musical Theatre director Joel Ferrell.

    Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and book by Terrence McNally, the musical tells the intertwined stories of three families from different walks of life, all chasing the American Dream in 1902 New York. It runs March 27-April 19, 2026, at the Wyly Theatre.

    The world premiere of Jonathan Norton's Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem closes out the regular season.

    A commission by and co-production with TheatreSquared, which previously supported the development of Norton’s I AM DELIVERED’T, the play will be directed by Dexter J. Singleton. In the sweltering summer of 1943, two young men — Little & Foxy — forge an unlikely bond over leftover fried chicken and dirty dishwasher. But as the world outside erupts in chaos, their friendship is tested by betrayal, ambition, and the call of history. Inspired by a true story. It runs May 8-June 7, 2026, at the Wyly's Studio Theater.

    "There is nothing like the rejuvenating sensation of rollicking laughter spreading through packed houses at Noises Off and Fat Ham," says Norton. "Where We Stand will inspire rich conversations about forgiveness and redemption. Ragtime will send audiences home lifted by the stirring music and feeling ever more hopeful in these changing times. And Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes At Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem will leave you empowered with the knowledge that true friendship can change the world. I can’t wait for October, when I get to welcome audiences at the start of our new season. We will throw open our doors and become Dallas’ town hall — a place for the community to gather for conversation, celebration, and ultimately, connection.”

    There are also two add-on productions, beginning with the company's annual presentation of A Christmas Carol.

    Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, adapted by Kevin Moriarty, and directed by Alex Organ, with musical direction by Cody Dry, and choreography by Joel Ferrell, DTC's production takes audiences on a magical Christmas Eve adventure with Ebenezer Scrooge, as three otherworldly spirits whisk him away on a breathtaking journey of hope and redemption. From the nostalgic warmth of Christmases past to the stark truths of the present and the ominous shadows of the future, Scrooge's journey is a spectacle of wonder. It runs November 28-December 28, 2025, at the Wyly Theatre.

    Under the direction of Robert Spano and Kevin Moriarty, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Theater Center collaborate to bring musical drama and theatrical intrigue center stage in the FWSO's newest "Theater of a Concert" concept: Shakespeare at the Symphony.

    Featuring Mendelssohn's Selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream and Prokofiev's Selections from Romeo and Juliet, interspersed with scenes from Shakespeare, the multi-discipline production brings The Bard to life. It runs February 27-March 1, 2026, at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.

    DTC’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company members will be featured throughout the 2025-26 season. Company members include Christina Austin Lopez, Tiana Kaye Blair, Blake Hackler, Bob Hess, Liz Mikel, Alex Organ, Molly Searcy, Tiffany Solano, Sally Nysteun Vahle, Esteban Vilchez, and Zachary J. Willis.

    “The talent and collaborative spirit of my colleagues in the Brierley Resident Acting Company constantly inspires me,” Norton says. “And later this spring I look forward to announcing a new company member who will further enrich our artistry.”

    Subscriptions are available now and can be purchased at DallasTheaterCenter.org and by phone at 214-522-8499. Single tickets are not yet available.

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