Theater on the Edge

Hedwig and the Angry Inch leads provocative 2015 season for Dallas' Uptown Players

Uptown Players looks primed for another season of provocative Dallas theater: Its 2015 slate features multiple Tony Award winners, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Hedwig, which won four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Actor in a Musical for Neil Patrick Harris and Best Revival of a Musical, makes its Uptown debut August 28-September 13, 2015. The musical tells the story of Hedwig Schmidt, an East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation.

The 2015 season kicks off with one of Uptown's patented parodies, Gilligan's Fire Island, at the Rose Room inside Station 4. Written by Jamie Morris, the same person responsible for The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode and Re-Designing Women, the play, running February 13-March 15, 2015, puts a gay twist on the beloved TV series.

Another Tony Award winner, The Nance, has its regional premiere at Uptown's usual home, Kalita Humphreys Theater. Running June 19-July 5, 2015, The Nance re-creates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque's heyday in the 1930s and tells the backstage story of Chauncey Miles and his fellow performers.

Catch Me If You Can, a 2011 Tony Award winner, is next, running July 24-August 9, 2015. The production is a musical take on the story of con man Frank Abagnale Jr., whose story was also immortalized in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film.

After Hedwig, Uptown Players' 2015 season comes to a close with Harbor, running October 9-November 7. Playing in Bryant Hall at Kalita Humphreys Theater, the comedy is about a 15-year-old girl and her ne'er-do-well mother who drop in unannounced on the Sag Harbor home of relatives, greatly testing the bonds of family.

Uptown also stages its annual fundraiser, Christmas Our Way, featuring popular holiday tunes along with Broadway show tunes both past and present. The show runs December 11-14, 2014.

Season tickets go on sale on Monday, August 4. Individual tickets, ranging anywhere from $20-$50, go on sale on October 1.

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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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