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• Bad Dates Offers a Good Time at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas

  By Elaine Liner | Fri, October 28, 2011

  ​Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder -- or a teaser, if you procrastinate -- of her full-length reviews in T More >

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  Theresa Rebeck hits high note in solo comedy; Theatre Three musical falls flat.

  By Elaine Liner | Thu, October 27, 2011

  Two good Dallas actresses are getting their due in a pair of shows obsessed with courtship, marriage and the whole damn thing called love. One play will make you feel good about all that. The other won't, but it does afford its star, Sally Soldo, ... More >

• Barrett Nash Grooms Her Comedy Skills as Funniest of CDT's Five Women

  By Elaine Liner | Thu, June 23, 2011

  ​ Before being cast as Georgeanne in Contemporary Theatre of Dallas' current comedy hit, Alan Ball's Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Dallas actress Barrett Nash had played a lot of angst-y te More >

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  In Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Bridesmaids From Hell Heat Up Contemporary Theatre

  By Elaine Liner | Thu, June 23, 2011

  In their shiny bridesmaids' gowns, the title characters in Contemporary Theatre of Dallas' fun, frothy comedy Five Women Wearing the Same Dress resemble bright dollops of strawberry sherbet. Plopped on their heads are matching hats, shaped like th... More >

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  Foote Traffic: WaterTower, Kitchen Dog and Contemporary Theatre join the ongoing marathon of folksy plays.

  By Elaine Liner | Thu, April 14, 2011

  Bring on the Mamet. Cue up some Neil LaBute. Somebody, quick, stage something full of cussin' and screwin' and gettin' all nekkid. A month into the ongoing Horton Foote Festival on local stages, the surfeit of antimacassars and rocking chairs in t... More >

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  | Wed, May 06, 2009

  When she was 5, she performed an "interpretive dance" to Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and a career was born. Lydia Mackay, 31, comes from a family of actors and artists, so playing dress-up even as a grown-up is a snap. The SMU MFA grad recently played Blanche DuBois in Contemporary Theatre's A Streetcar Named Desire, Rosalind in As You Like It, Arkadina in The Seagull and Lady Macbeth. If she has a specialty onstage, it's classical roles, but she's oomphy enough to play bombshells. Here's what she says about being a Dallas actor: "So many people seem to think that you have to live in New York or L.A. to be a serious actor. Bullshit. Dallas creates a fertile ground for people who are serious about being working actors." See why we love her?

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