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    Theater Critic Picks

    These are the 12 can't-miss shows in Dallas-Fort Worth theater for December

    Lindsey Wilson
    Dec 3, 2018 | 1:46 pm

    It's perfect: 12 shows for the holiday month of December, though not all (thankfully, some might say) have a festive feel to them. There are new works and old favorites, regional premieres and returning stars, and even a hell-sprite to balance out the elves.

    Here are the 12 shows to see, in order by start date:

    A Very Judy Christmas
    Uptown Players, December 1-16
    This world premiere written and directed by B.J. Cleveland pays tribute to the 1960s TV holiday specials, with Janelle Lutz returning as Judy Garland. Share the holiday with Judy and some celebrity friends, including Ethel Merman and Liza Minnelli, along with some of Garland's signature songs and holiday classics performed by a number of surprise special guests.

    Fetch Clay, Make Man
    Dallas Theater Center, December 5-January 13
    Loosely inspired by the real-life friendship of Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit, this new script from DTC playwright-in-residence Will Power brings these two iconic figures together to shape their legacies against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement.

    The Santaland Diaries
    Casa Mañana, December 6-22
    David Sedaris' sardonic look back at his time as a Macy's Christmas elf brings some naughty to the holiday season. Zak Reynolds stars as Crumpet, the grumpiest elf in New York City, as he navigates the absurd and hilarious trials and tribulations of a middle-aged elf dealing with cynical Santas, greedy children, and their harried parents.

    Black Nativity
    Bishop Arts Theatre Center, December 6-23
    This retelling of the nativity story by Langston Hughes is returning for its 15th anniversary production. Spoken word, song, music, dance, and theater combine to create a one-of-a-kind Christmas pageant.

    Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
    Stage West, December 6-23
    Tom Mula's behind-the-scenes look at Charles Dickens' much-loved story returns to Stage West starring Emily Scott Banks. This piece takes audiences along for Marley's amazing and hilarious journey to the Mouth of Hell — and beyond. With the questionable aid of a hell-sprite called The Bogle, Marley concocts a desperate plan to save Scrooge (and himself).

    Solstice: A New Holiday
    Theatre Three, December 6-30
    Stuart and Paulette are back in Dallas for the holidays, decking the Theatre Three halls with more than just boughs of holly. This reworked piece reunites playwright Jonathan Norton with composer Cherish Robinson and adds contributions from Janielle Kastner.

    A Christmas Story, The Musical
    AT&T Performing Arts Center, December 12-16
    Set in 1940s Indiana, a young and bespectacled Ralphie Parker schemes his way toward the holiday gift of his dreams, an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle. An infamous leg lamp, outrageous pink bunny pajamas, a maniacal department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are just a few of the distractions that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas wish.

    Chicago
    AT&T Performing Arts Center, December 18-23
    There's never been a better time to experience this razzle-dazzle smash, the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. Come along, babe, for a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz with one show-stopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you've ever seen.

    The Phantom of the Opera
    Dallas Summer Musicals, December 19-January 6
    Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic is part of a brand-new North American tour, with aa huge cast and orchestra of 52 people.

    A Bronx Tale
    AT&T Performing Arts Center, December 27-January 6
    Broadway's hit crowd-pleaser based on the one-man-show by Chazz Palminteri takes you to the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s, where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he'd love to be.

    Everybody
    Stage West, December 27-January 27
    In this modern, comedic, and heartfelt riff on the iconic medieval morality play, fate decides the roles by lottery each night, so — as is true in life — Everybody could be anybody. And in the end, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins asks, when it's your time to go what will you leave behind and what will you take with you?

    Clowning Around With Murder!
    Pegasus Theatre, December 29-January 20
    The latest Living Black & White takes place in 1935 at the Fripson Clown College, where someone has murdered the founder and head professor. Harry Hunsacker, world famous detective and aspiring actor, along with his paid by the hour assistant, Nigel Grouse, meet a variety of clowns, clues, and a copper in disguise on the trail of a murderer.

    A Christmas Story, The Musical brings the leg lamps to life at the Winspear.

    The cast of A Christmas Story
      
    Photo by Gary Emord Netzley
    A Christmas Story, The Musical brings the leg lamps to life at the Winspear.
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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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