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Best Scenic Designer
Award Winner 2008

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday noon - 6pm (during performance runs) Tuesday - Friday noon - 6pm Open one hour before all performances.

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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 »
2002 | Best Local Theater

This theater space, like a good actor, never does it the same way twice. For every play, the 32,000-square-foot interior of this glass and concrete space is reconfigured. Sometimes it's arena-style, sometimes thrust. For Book of Days, the Lanford Wilson drama performed this summer, actors trod a long runway that ran nearly the full length of the theater. For Always...Patsy Cline, the 200 seats and stage were shifted into an intimate, clublike setting. But aside from the aesthetic aspects... More »
2002 | Best Theater Director

Addison Theater mecca Whodathunk that a few years ago Then along came an Alabama grad named Terry Martin, determined to turn a small but well-loved community theater company into a major force in Dallas-area arts. He's done that by consistently raising the bar in the choices of plays, casting the best-trained professional actors and overseeing the redesign of the interior of the WaterTower space in a compelling way for every new production. As a director, Martin, 45, recently... More »

One From the Attic

By Patrick Williams | Thu, January 05, 2012

“I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!” teen diarist Anne Frank wrote during the two years she and seven other Jews spent hiding in an attic in Holland, attemp... More »
WaterTower's Rockin' Christmas Party Deserves a Big Lump of Coal

By Elaine Liner | Wed, December 7, 2011

If you remember flopping on the divan in your flannels and scuffies to watch TV Christmas specials starring Perry Como, the King Sisters and the Osmonds back in the day, you'll feel right at home at W... More »
Deck the Halls and Stages with Fa-la-lots of Holiday Shows

By Elaine Liner | Wed, November 23, 2011

If you have to use "the Method" to act excited about seeing in-laws at your holiday gatherings, you have something in common with all the actors in Scrooge and Santa drag night after night from now ti... More »
Spring Awakening Lets Young Talent Bloom at WaterTower Theatre

By Elaine Liner | Thu, October 20, 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 The Mixm... More »
At WaterTower Theatre, a Spring Awakening Not Quite Awake Enough.

By Elaine Liner | Thu, October 13, 2011

For Spring Awakening to work its magic, it needs young performers who look hot, sing hotter and radiate sexuality with the heat of a thousand suns. At Addison's WaterTower Theatre, where the first local production of the Tony-winning musical is no... More »
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