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Best Local Theater
Award Winner 2011

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2011 | Best Local Theater

With government support of the arts disappearing, public support of live theater is going strong at Dallas Theater Center. The 2010-'11 season, starting with Shakespeare's Henry IV and ending with The Wiz, was 51-year-old DTC's biggest-ever box office year. Patrons packed the house for Arsenic and Old Lace (performed at Kalita Humphreys Theater, DTC's first home). Cabaret, which reconfigured the 600-seat Wyly into a massive Berlin nightclub, had waiting lists for tickets. Artistic director... More »
2010 | Best Theater Director

In three years as artistic director at Dallas Theater Center, Kevin Moriarty has experienced the high of moving his company into the shiny new Wyly Theatre downtown, and the low of a box office bomb like the Bible-themed In the Beginning (which he directed). But nobody faults the guy for taking big chances. Moriarty, an Indiana native who came to Dallas after working at major theaters on the East Coast, is a bold director of classics and new work and a major champion of local talent. All of... More »
2010 | Best Christmas Show

Dallas Theater Center returns to its old home at Kalita Humphreys Theater one more time this year for the last performances of its beloved version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Adapted by Richard Hellesen, with music by David de Berry, the show is a heart-melting, spectacularly staged run-up to the holidays. This year's production, directed by DTC company member Matthew Gray, will star Dallas actor Chamblee Ferguson as Scrooge (he's played Bob Cratchit before). Funny, scary,... More »
2008 | Best Local Playwright

A few years ago Lee Trull was just another unemployed actor/playwright. The college dropout was struggling to get by on temp jobs and the occasional small roles, mostly smart-alecky dweebs. Then came the Kitchen Dog Theater premiere of Allison Moore's Dust Bowl drama End Times. Like a young Jimmy Stewart, Trull ambled across the stage, acted the thing to pieces and became a local star. After that came mostly comedic roles at Second Thought, Theatre Three and the Out of the Loop Festival.... More »
2008 | Best Professional Theater

In its 50th season the theater founded in 1959 by renegade director Paul Baker will spend a year saying goodbye to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building on Turtle Creek (now owned by the city of Dallas). In 2009 DTC will move into the 12-story Wyly Theatre (designed by Rem Koolhaas) at the multi-venue downtown Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Before the relocation, it's time to recognize a shift in attitude and a new dedication to local talent at DTC. Under new artistic director... More »
2008 | Best New Player

When Kevin Moriarty stood up to announce the 50th season lineup for Dallas Theater Center, no one knew what to expect. Then came his stunning news. His first directorial work would be the vintage rock musical The Who's Tommy, about as un-DTC as you can get. Also, he was hiring a nine-member resident company of local actors, something DTC hasn't had in more than two decades. And most shocking of all, he dared to utter the name of DTC's revered but oft unmentioned founder, Paul Baker. This... More »
2008 | Best Local Actor

Having already played Hamlet, getting the lead as Jack, the main pup in Theatre Three's whimsical musical A Dog's Life, could have felt like a bit of a comedown. Gregory Lush, however, sank his canines into the part and made the show and his performance moving and memorable. The darkly handsome 36-year-old actor, a grad of UT-Arlington with an MFA from Ole Miss, has worked professionally in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Facing extended unemployment, he returned to Dallas last year and landed... More »
2008 | Best Scenic Designer

He's a three-peat choice in this category, but Randel Wright has little local competition in the area of theatrical set design. Wright now works full-time as design director for Dallas Children's Theater, but his exquisitely rendered and beautifully constructed set pieces have adorned stages at Dallas Theater Center, WaterTower, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Circle Theatre and others. A midlife return to theater design was a big career risk for the architecturally trained designer, but he... More »
2007 | Best Ghost

The Dallas Theater Center will move out of the cantilevered layer-cake building on Turtle Creek when the new Wyly arts complex downtown is finished in 2009. But we're wondering if the ghost of the building's legendary architect will make the move too. Since the theater opened nearly 48 years ago, it's been part of its colorful lore that the ghost of architect Frank Lloyd Wright haunts the scene shop's elevator. Seems Wright designed DTC with no right angles (making those steps to the... More »

Waiting For The Big Cat To Pounce

By Jamie Laughlin | Thu, March 08, 2012

Disaster stalks the characters of Tigers Be Still even more aggressively than the reportedly loose jungle cat that’s patrolling the neighborhood. Penned by playwright Kim Rosenstock, Tigers Be Still focuses on the lives of several suburban familie... More »
Giant Cast and Design Team Announced, Tickets On Sale, Like, Right Now

By Nick Rallo | Mon, November 14, 2011

Back in March, Elaine had a Giant announcement on Unfair Park: The full Dallas Theater Center's lineup from artistic director Kevin Moriarty, which included the Michael John LaChiusa musical Giant (ba... More »
No Magic from The Wiz

By Elaine Liner | Thu, July 21, 2011

Buy a seat in one of the movable "pods" available at The Wiz, the musical Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Black Dance Theatre are doing together at the Wyly Theatre, and you'll spend a good chunk of the show being rolled around by sweaty stagehan... More »
First-time Director Lee Trull Talks about Dying City and Keeping Theater Alive

By Elaine Liner | Fri, June 24, 2011

The final show of Second Thought Theatre's seventh and so far strongest season is Christopher Shinn's Dying City (reviewed in this week's paper). The two-actor (Grace Heid, Rhett Henckel), three-chara... More »
Dallas Theater Center Scores Two New Works From Kristoffer Diaz

By Elizabeth Bair | Thu, June 23, 2011

For most people, Mondays suck, but not for playwright Kristoffer Diaz who got to do triple the celebrating this past Monday. First, The New York Times crowned him as the 2011 New York Times Outstandin... More »
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Dallas Theater Center

2400 Flora Street Dallas, TX 75201

214-522-8499

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2011 | Best Local Theater

2010 | Best Theater Director

2010 | Best Christmas Show

2008 | Best Local Playwright

2008 | Best Professional Theater

2008 | Best New Player

2008 | Best Local Actor

2008 | Best Scenic Designer

2007 | Best Ghost

Waiting For The Big Cat To Pounce

By Jamie Laughlin | Thu, March 08, 2012

Giant Cast and Design Team Announced, Tickets On Sale, Like, Right Now

By Nick Rallo | Mon, November 14, 2011

No Magic from The Wiz

By Elaine Liner | Thu, July 21, 2011

First-time Director Lee Trull Talks about Dying City and Keeping Theater Alive

By Elaine Liner | Fri, June 24, 2011

Dallas Theater Center Scores Two New Works From Kristoffer Diaz

By Elizabeth Bair | Thu, June 23, 2011