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    Prancing Puppies and Flying Pizza!

    10 most unforgettable moments in Dallas theater 2013 range from absurd to incredible

    Lindsey Wilson
    Dec 30, 2013 | 10:21 am

    Like every theater critic, I have already filed my year-end, best-of list. There was certainly some incredible theater in 2013, with productions, performances and designs that challenged and delighted audiences.

     

    This list, while it may include some of those best-of’s, is meant instead to celebrate the memorable moments — good, weird and/or amazing — that stuck with me long after the curtain dropped.

     

     Best Photo Op: XSR: Die!, Pegasus Theatre
    It’s time for Rehearsal for Murder!, the 2014 installment of Pegasus Theatre’s yearly Living Black & White production. Do yourself a favor and get what might be the best profile picture ever, as I did following last year’s production.

     

    After each performance, the actors from Kurt Kleinmann’s comic murder mystery plays pose for snaps in the Eisemann Center lobby. Go see their amazing black, white and gray makeup up close (yes, it’s even in their ears and on their gums!) and then try to convince your friends the picture wasn’t Photoshopped.

     

     Best Lip Synching: The Lucky Chance, Echo Theatre
    This play, from one of the earliest known female playwrights, boasts the kind of whirlwind romances and mistaken identities we often associate with Shakespeare. What we may not often associate with a play written in 1686 is Dusty Springfield.

     

    Director Rene Moreno and choreographer Sara Romersberger sprinkled ’60s-era pop tunes into their groovy production, which was updated from 17th-century Restoration to swinging London, giving the actors — and the audience — a hilarious outlet from the flowery language and earnest declarations of love.

     

     Best Office Romance: RX, Kitchen Dog Theater
    Which one, you might ask? Kate Fodor’s sharply satiric take on our increasing chemical dependence centered around the deeply unfulfilled Meena, an editor of a cattle and swine magazine who enrolls in a Wonder Drug trial. The pills are meant to up her life satisfaction, but as a bonus she also ends up falling for the nebbishly cute doctor who’s monitoring her progress.

     

    As adorable as it was to watch Tina Parker and Max Hartman timidly dance around their characters’ attraction, it was downright awesome to watch Parker (who won our hearts with one of the year's best performances) get it on with her magazine colleague (Christopher Curtis) in a blouse-ripping, shove-everything-off-the-desk moment of workday passion.

     

     Best Opera Tie-In: Fly By Night, Dallas Theater Center
    There was much to love about this new musical, currently prepping for its May premiere Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. The score felt fresh, the intricate plot boasted some truly satisfying connections and the performances were endearing (and, in the case of Asa Somer’s multifaceted narrator, probably exhausting).

     

    But it was DFW favorite David Coffee who shone the brightest during this play about the 1965 New York City blackout, playing a lonely widower who remains connected to his late wife through a recording of La Traviata. There were precious few moments when Coffee’s character wasn’t steeped in a deep depression, yet his performance still managed to be touching, inspiring and nothing short of illuminating.

     

     Best Excuse for a Thin Mint: Daffodil Girls, Inspired by David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Fun House Theatre and Film
    I’m not the only one who heaped praise on this clever adaptation of Mamet’s famously ruthless tale of greed and underhandedness, told here by adorable little girls selling cookies. It totally deserves all the happy words we critics had to give it, and even picking a favorite moment is d*%! near impossible.

     

    Was it when an overly confident Lizzy Green declares that she will be the top seller and win the pony party? Or was it when Lynley Glickler consistently cut down the impossibly cute Zoe Smithey (who definitely knows how to work a protruding bottom lip)? Or perhaps when Kennedy Waterman stoically phones her divorced parents, swallowing back tears and displaying emotions that most adult actors could never dream of eliciting? Impossible to choose, I tell you.

     

     Best Puppy: So Help Me God!, Theatre Three
    We’re all suckers for cute animals onstage, and Terry Dobson knows it. The director of So Help Me God! may not have ultimately been able to give this backstage farce much bite, but he did cast Skye, a rescued Chihuahua mix, in the oh-so-important role of diva Lily Darnley’s pampered pup, Frou-Frou.

     

    Skye was also up for adoption through Take Me Home Pet Rescue. Her foster family offered meet-and-greets with her in the lobby after the show.

     

     Best Reason to Ask for ID: Jailbait, Dallas Actors Lab
    Deidre O’Connor’s intimate and provocative play toyed with its audience, presenting two high school girls (Mikaela Krantz and Katherine Bourne) who go out clubbing disguised as coeds. When Bourne’s character meets and connects with a much older man (who’s none the wiser to her true age), the assumption is that you as the audience should be repulsed.

     

    Instead, Bourne and Kyle Lemieux delivered performances nuanced with nerves and vulnerability. When Lemieux’s character finally learned who was in his bed, the range of emotions — from loathing to fear to hurt — made the scenario much more than cut and dried.

     

     Most Erotic Reading: Cock, Second Thought Theatre
    Second Thought Theatre gave audiences a tantalizing preview of its upcoming full production of Mike Bartlett’s play with a staged reading during Uptown Players Pride Festival. Even with clunky scripts and binders in their hands, things got hot and heavy as Joey Folsom and Danielle Pickard, um, became intimate — all without ever touching each other. The power of words, y’all.

     

     Best Use of Pizza: Matt & Ben, Echo Theatre
    Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’ slight comedy about Hollywood’s favorite bromance worked because of actresses Catherine DuBord and Miller Pyke, who weren’t afraid to get physical in order to convey their dudeness. A balls-to-the-wall food fight — replete with Doritos, Coke bottles, real pizza and baked goods — showed just how committed these two were.
     
     Best Joke: Clybourne Park, Dallas Theater Center
    I’m not going to ruin it for you, but Tiffany Hobbs’ delivery of the crude yet laugh-out-loud funny joke in Act II of Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel to A Raisin in the Sun stopped the show. Everyone who has seen the play wonders what you thought of “the joke,” and everyone who hasn’t should be sad they’re not in on it.

     

    Local actor David Coffee gave Fly By Night at Dallas Theater Center its heart and soul.

    Dallas Theater Center presents Fly By Night
      
    Photo by Karen Almond
    Local actor David Coffee gave Fly By Night at Dallas Theater Center its heart and soul.
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    From Wilde to 'The Wiz': 8 unmissable July shows in North Texas

    Lindsey Wilson
    Jul 2, 2025 | 10:18 am
    Second Thought Theatre presents Your Wife’s Dead Body
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    Your instinct during the summer might be to hide out in an air-conditioned theater, and there are plenty of options to do exactly this month. But we would be remiss if we didn't remind you about a North Texas tradition: Shakespeare under the stars. Pack a picnic, bring a blanket, and watch The Bard (and this year Oscar Wilde) at Samuell-Grand Amphitheater with Shakespeare Dallas. Both shows opened in June, but continue through most of July.

    Here are eight shows local shows, listed in order of start date:

    The Importance of Being Earnest
    Shakespeare Dallas, through July 18 extended to July 26
    This witty romantic comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed in 1895, tells the story of two men who assume the identities of a fictional man named Ernest. This leads them to each fall in love and encounter an assortment of comical problems along the way.

    Othello
    Shakespeare Dallas, through July 20
    In this Shakespearean tragedy, Othello is at the peak of his powers: not only Venice's greatest general but also husband to the noble and beautiful Desdemona. But he does not know that in passing over his servant Iago for promotion, he has created a deadly but brilliant enemy. This production is set in an alternate-history version of the 1990s in which the Venetian empire is the predominant political, military, and economic power.

    King Kirby
    American Chronicle Theatre Co., July 4-12
    This is the story of Jack "King of Comics" Kirby. The play follows him from the tough Jewish ghetto of Hell’s Kitchen in New York, to the harrowing battlefields of Normandy during WWII, to tense Senate hearings in the 1950s. Watch as he creates some of the most iconic heroes in pop culture: Captain America, Thor, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the New Gods, and countless others.

    Your Wife’s Dead Body
    Second Thought Theatre, July 9-26
    Written by Second Though Theatre artistic associate Jenny Ledel in her playwriting premiere, the play takes place in the near future, as Jane takes advantage of a new AI technology that would extend her lifespan ... even if she's not around to see it for herself.

    The Wiz
    Broadway at the Bass, July 15-20
    This all-new production of the groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning musical returns “home” in an all-new pre-Broadway tour, the first one in 40 years. The groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway, from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and finger-snapping '70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world.

    Noises Off
    Mainstage Irving-Las Colinas, July 18-August 2
    This play-within-a-play captures a touring theater troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress rehearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards the end of a debilitating run. Playwright Michael Frayn gives a window into the inner workings of theatre behind-the-scenes, progressing from flubbed lines and missed cues in the dress rehearsal to mounting friction between cast members in the final performance.

    Everybody's Talking About Jamie
    Uptown Players, July 18-August 3
    Inspired by true events, this musical tells the inspiring story of Jamie New, a 16-year-old boy from Sheffield who dreams of becoming a drag queen. His loving mom showers him with endless support but it's not all rainbows for Jamie as his deadbeat dad and some ignorant school kids attempt to rain on his sensational aspirations.

    Shucked
    Broadway at the Bass, July 29-August 3
    This Tony Award-winning musical comedy features a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn, a score by the Grammy Award-winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and direction by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien. The corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy an appetite for great musical theater.

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