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825 Exposition Ave. Dallas, TX 75226-1743

214-826-6273

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Best Place to See a Weird Play
Award Winner 2009

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Cicerone

8:15 p.m. every Fri., Sat. from May 19 until June 9

An original production by Matthew Posey that expresses the 1930s Parisian art scene. Complete with original music.

2009 | Best Place to See a Weird Play

Actor-writer-director and self-described madman Matthew Posey lives not just for the theater but in one. The Ochre House, tucked between a couple of bars on Exposition Avenue just a corndog's throw from Fair Park, is Posey's experimental playhouse and his home (shared with a dog named Walter). The theater space is up front--a small stage, plastic chairs and shelves showing off Posey's collection of oddities. This year he's done X-rated puppet shows, premiered a biographical "autopsy" on... More »

Tropical Heat Wave

By Jennifer Davis-lamm | Thu, May 17, 2012

Tropic of Cancer is one of those watershed books. You hear about it in high school English class from some know-it-all literary snob who tells you how it is stuffed full of sex scenes and was banned in this country for years. And then you procure ... More »
Mean Scenes

By Merritt Martin | Thu, February 16, 2012

Here’s a question people rarely think about when they wake up in the morning: Would the world be better with or without Charles Manson and the Order of the Rainbow? Through March 10, that’s exactly what audiences of the Ochre House will be mulling... More »
Pay a Little, Enjoy a Lot of Drama Tonight at Ochre House's Frida Kahlo Play, Ex Voto

By Elaine Liner | Mon, November 14, 2011

Have a buck? You could see a play tonight. And a good one at that. The Ochre House theater, Matthew Posey's hothouse of experimental work, is doing a pay-what-you-can performance of its latest, Ex Vo... More »
Elizabeth Evans: Frida Be Who She Wants to Be

By Elaine Liner | Wed, November 9, 2011

With her dark unibrow and shadow of upper lip fuzz, Dallas actress Elizabeth Evans looks eerily like the title character in the Ochre House's latest production, Ex Voto: The Immaculate Conceptions of ... More »
The Fun in Dysfunction

By Jesse Hughey | Thu, September 15, 2011

The Ochre House earned the "Best Place To See A Weird Play" distinction in our 2009 Best of DallasTM(r)(c) awards, and it doesn't look like Matthew Posey's theater is giving up its hold on that claim any time soon. The current production, written ... More »
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The Ochre House

825 Exposition Ave. Dallas, TX 75226-1743

214-826-6273

Description

Cicerone

8:15 p.m. every Fri., Sat. from May 19 until June 9

2009 | Best Place to See a Weird Play

Tropical Heat Wave

By Jennifer Davis-lamm | Thu, May 17, 2012

Mean Scenes

By Merritt Martin | Thu, February 16, 2012

Pay a Little, Enjoy a Lot of Drama Tonight at Ochre House's Frida Kahlo Play, Ex Voto

By Elaine Liner | Mon, November 14, 2011

Elizabeth Evans: Frida Be Who She Wants to Be

By Elaine Liner | Wed, November 9, 2011

The Fun in Dysfunction

By Jesse Hughey | Thu, September 15, 2011