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    Memorable Theater Moments

    The 10 most memorable theater moments of 2014

    Lindsey Wilson
    Dec 28, 2014 | 12:04 pm

    Looking back, there were plenty of excellent plays and musicals that were produced during 2014. But that’s not what this list is for. This list exists to remember the awesome, funny, weird and wonderful moments that happened onstage, the moments that — months later — still resonate.

    Best Sister Act: Stephanie Felton and Kim Borge
    Though the U.S. premiere of London musical Soho Cinders didn’t catch fire like Uptown Players hoped it would, it did gift us with two of the most outrageous, crass and hilarious characters to grace a DFW stage this year: Dana and Clodagh, played with bold abandon by Felton and Borge.

    These two pranced, jiggled and cracked jokes in Cockney accents straight out of Ab Fab, and nothing was off-limits when it came to their handsy audience interaction. Happily, Christmas Our Way brought the pair back for a raunchy rendition of “A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing” from Promises, Promises. Whether you wanted to admit it or not, it’s what we all ready wanted for Christmas.

    Best Tuba: Seth Magill
    The front man for Home By Hovercraft didn’t seem complete in On The Eve until he slid down the slide, tuba in hand, near the show’s finale at Theatre Three. Fans of the band, which scored the original musical, cheered when the instrument made its appearance.

    Twelve months later, Magill played Scrooge’s nephew in Dallas Theater Center’s A Christmas Carol and the tuba reappeared, as musical director Shawn Magill (also of HBH) had every single actor playing at least one instrument. It may be an unusual accessory for a rock band, but that tuba definitely has its fans.

    Best Time Travel: The Echo Room
    In February, Echo Theatre transformed the Bath House Cultural Center into a 1930s supper club for Her Song, a revue of tunes penned by female composers from the 1900s to 1940s.

    Intimate cocktail tables, debonair crooners, free wine from the onstage bar and cheek-to-cheek dancing with your sweetheart — it made for one memorable Valentine’s Day theatrical experience. It was so popular in fact, that Echo is bringing back the show with its original cast and the Matt Tolentino Quartet from February 10-21.

    Best Bevel, Pivot & Wave: Pageant, Uptown Players
    The contestants in the crowd-pleaser Pageant know how to work an evening gown, heels and even a swimsuit. They also have bigger muscles and better legs than I ever will, because they are fit men dressed as women. (A few of the performers from this production often perform in drag at other venues around town.)

    As fetching as these gentlemen looked, they were even funnier at creating characters that straddled stereotypical and real, pathetic and admirable. There were some, ahem, real balls behind those performances.

    Best Existential Kids: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Fun House Theatre and Film
    Noted director-about-town Rene Moreno ventured up to Plano to tackle an intricate Tom Stoppard classic, and the results were sharp and thought-provoking. Oh, and it was performed by kids. Just another example of how Fun House treats its young performers as the intelligent and professional actors they’re learning to become.

    Best Wig Out: The Passing Show, Ochre House
    This Matthew Posey original introduced audiences to Lord Buckley (Ben Bryant), a beat poet and comic who gained notoriety in the 1950s for his unique stage performances. It also had Buckley’s acting out King Lear, pulling down wigs suspended by bungee cords from the ceiling as he moved from character to character.

    It was a dizzying spectacle, a memorable feat that surely gave Bryant a mental and physical workout.

    Best Audience Participation: Shear Madness, Theatre Three
    Every good beauty shop invites you to feel right at home while you curl up and dye, but Theatre Three managed to create that atmosphere from the get-go. With Tony’s (B.J. Cleveland) gossiping and shampooing, Barbara’s (Sherry Hopkins) snapping gum and flipping through tabloids, it was like hanging out with friends … until the murder happens.

    When Bradley Campbell’s investigator began questioning the audience right along with the characters, it opened the door to some hilarious improv and sassy comebacks. So hilarious, in fact, that the show extended four months past its original closing date.

    Best Heartbreak: Titanic, Lyric Stage
    Everything about Titanic is big, from the doomed ocean liner’s legend to Maury Yeston’s sweeping score. Yet director Drew Scott Harris kept the scale of this production delightfully modest, focusing instead on drawing compelling — and ultimately heartbreaking — performances from his large cast rather than overbearing sets or special effects.

    Jay Dias predictably kept the music lush, and there was such excitement in the grand group numbers. That was matched only by the chilling songs as the boat was sinking, giving humanity to one of history’s most famous tragedies.

    Best Poultry: Year of the Rooster, Upstart Theater
    Upstart Theater’s production — part of the Elevator Project at the Wyly Theatre — had plenty going for it, from Joey Folsom’s fierce rooster to Brian Witkowicz’s achingly pathetic loser.

    It also had Steph Garrett, a riot as Witkowicz’s aggressive coworker and downright loopy as the chicken brought in to soothe Folsom’s fighting spirit. Watching this weird, wild love story play out was one of those “Is this really happening?” moments that make live theater so memorable.

    Best Sandbox: Teotl: The Sand Show, Cara Mia Theatre Co. and Prism Co.
    More than 20 cubic yards of sand overflowed in a warehouse in Trinity Groves, providing a play space for Cara Mia and Prism Co. to wordlessly tell a tale of ancient gods.

    The evocative choreography by Katy Tye, expressive masks created by Frida Espinosa-Müller and astonishing special effects from Trigg Watson furthered the feeling of being in a dream. If you wanted to jump in and begin flinging around the sand with the performers, well, we wouldn’t have blamed you.

    Pageant at Uptown Players.

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    Dallas bookstore and publisher gets federal arts funding axed

    Luciana Gomez
    May 7, 2025 | 12:17 pm
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    Stack of books at Deep Vellum

    A Dallas arts organization got its budget chopped by the federal government: Deep Vellum, the bookstore and publisher at 3000 Commerce St., lost a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant due to federal government budget cuts.

    According to owner Will Evans, the award, which is granted annually, has been terminated as of May 31. The bookstore had received $20,000 for the past six years.

    Deep Ellum started as a publisher in 2013 and opened their bookstore in Deep Ellum in 2015. Since then, they have become a center for literature lovers. Evans is a translator whose mission has been to translate the world’s best novels into English for American audiences.

    Evans was notified on May 2 via an email that was reportedly sent to grant recipients nationwide. The note read:

    "The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President. Consequently, we are terminating awards that fall outside these new priorities."

    The new priorities included projects that elevate the Nation's HBCUs and Hispanic Serving Institutions, celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, foster AI competency, empower houses of worship to serve communities, assist with disaster recovery, foster skilled trade jobs, make America healthy again, support military and veterans, support Tribal communities, make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful, and support the economic development of Asian American communities.

    The Grants and Public Affairs departments at NEA did not respond to a request for comment. On Monday May 5, the Literary Staff was laid off, and the agency is facing possible elimination entirely, as part of the 2026 Discretionary Budget Request presented to Congress on May 2.

    This year's grant to Deep Vellum was earmarked to fund the translation, publishing, and marketing costs of four books:

    • Carapace Dancer by Natalia Toledo, translated from Zapotec, published trilingually with Spanish and English translations alongside the original, translated by Clare Sullivan
    • Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird of New Zealand, making her US debut, illustrated by Dallas artist Gino Dal Cin
    • Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz, translated from the German by Max Lawton, a 1001-page masterpiece and English-language debut
    • The Ruins by Ye Hui, translated from Chinese by Dong Li, the English-language debut from one of China's most distinguished and independent poets

    The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency established by Congress in 1965 as a funder of the arts and arts education in communities nationwide anxd a catalyst of public and private support for the arts with the goal of advancing opportunities for arts participation and practice, according to their website.

    In their last stats document updated in November 2024, their FY’24 budget was outlined as $207M (representing 0.03 percent of the total federal budget), with 80 percent of their budget supporting grants and awards to organizations and individuals across the country. They typically offer over 2,000 grants each year.

    "It’s been a strange few days for us, and for countless other nonprofit publishers, magazines, and arts organizations," Evans said.

    Despite the cut, Deep Vellum plans to continue to promote literacy through unique books translated to the English language.

    “This is not going to imperil our future but it’s something we need to consider as we move forward. These books are extraordinary, and they add so much for readers and culture. We just need to find additional revenue to fund them," Evans said.

    Evans was first to reveal the funding cut but a number of organizations across Dallas and Texas have seen similar cuts including Ballet North Texas, Flamenco Fever, Dallas Theater Center, and Bishop Arts Theatre Center, as well as a number of groups in Austin.

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