Best Of The Great White Way

Book of Mormon and more favorites return to Winspear for new Broadway series

The AT&T Performing Arts Center has brought a lot of great Broadway shows to the Winspear Opera House, but its 2014-2015 Broadway Series just might be its best one yet, as it features no fewer than three shows that won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

And that doesn't even include The Book of Mormon, which will return to Dallas for a second time, February 10-22, 2015. Mormon is technically not part of the five-show season, but it will be a special engagement available to season ticket subscribers.

The season kicks off in August 2014 with the perennial favorite, The Phantom of the Opera, running August 6-24. It will be followed four months later by the Dallas premiere of Once, which won the Tony for Best Musical in 2012. That show, based on the movie of the same name, comes to the Winspear December 17-28.

After The Book of Mormon storms through again, Newsies will come to town April 29-May 10, 2015. Newsies, based on the 1992 Disney film, is one of the more popular musicals to come along in recent years and only lost out on the Best Musical award because it came out the same year as Once.

Another all-time favorite (and Best Musical winner), Annie will be the season's fourth show, playing June 23-July 5, 2015. The season will wrap up with the jukebox production Motown the Musical. Playing July 28-August 16, 2015, it features pretty much all of the biggest hits from Motown's heyday in the 1960s and '70s.

Season tickets are now on sale, with prices ranging from $140 for Starlight Circle seating to $1,000 for packages in the Cree Box Circle, with the add-on of The Book of Mormon tacking on $50-$160 more. Individual tickets for each show will go on sale at a later date.

The Book of Mormon returns to the Winspear Opera House in February 2015 as an add-on to the 2014-2015 Broadway Series season.

Mark Evans and Christopher John O'Neill in The Book of Mormon

Photo by Joan Marcus

The Book of Mormon returns to the Winspear Opera House in February 2015 as an add-on to the 2014-2015 Broadway Series season.

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Season Announcement

Kitchen Dog Theater unleashes immersive 2025 season in new Dallas space

Kitchen Dog Theater presents Safe at Home

Photo by Jordan Fraker

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Seven years after announcing it had purchased a building in the Design District, Kitchen Dog Theater is finally ready to move into its new home.

The third and final production of its 2025 season — the theater company's 34th — will take place all around the new "Doghouse." The other two productions will follow the immersive format at non-traditional performance spaces that was established last season.

With three fully produced events that each run the gambit from captivating and gutsy to heartfelt and hilarious, the monthly New Works Festival Staged Readings Series returns, as does the 23rd annual PUP Fest, nurturing high school talent from all over DFW.

First up is the area premiere of Will Eno's Wakey, Wakey, directed by KDT's artistic director Tina Parker and starring KDT co-artistic director Christopher Carlos.

"Is it now? I thought I had more time." These first words in Will Eno's play are spoken by Guy, a man who knows, like all of us on some level, that he is about to die. The play questions why we are here and the journeys that everyone takes to eventually get to the same place. Performances will take place at Expo Park, 840 Exposition Avenue, and run February 7-23, 2025.

Production No. 2 is full of mystery: The title and performance location will be announced soon and run in March/April 2025.

The Happiness Gymby Ken Weitzman closes out the season in August 2025 (exact dates TBA).

This regional premiere is a joyous, experiential event based on the science of well-being. Participants take part in a curated theatrical experience meant to boost their sense of happiness, joy, and feelings of connection. This one-of-a-kind project will be the soft opening to Kitchen Dog’s new theater and will take place all over the entire facility, giving patrons unparalleled access to KDT’s new home.

From March to July 2025, the 26th annual 2025 New Works Festival will showcase four-to-five staged readings of the newest and most exciting local and regional playwrights working in contemporary theater today. Each reading will feature some of DFW's most accomplished actors and directors and will take place at different venues across DFW.

For its 23rd annual event, PUP Fest will feature six staged readings of jury-selected plays written by DFW high school students, featuring student actors directed by area professional directors. PUP Fest is the culminating event of Dallas Playwriting Arts Collective (D-PAC), a partnership with Dallas ISD and Junior Players. Performance location is TBA, but the event will happen June 7, 2025.

For more information, visit kitchendogtheater.org or call 214-953-1055.

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