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Dallas Opera director John Copley putting on final show

A FINAL BOW: British opera director John Copley, right, directs the Dallas Opera’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with Daniel Okulitch, left, and Lyubov Petrova, center, as the lovers. It will be Copley’s final opera in Dallas. John ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  14 Nov 2008

Theater review: Topdog/Underdog

At a time when major corporations like WaMu and Chrylser are closing or on the brink of disintegrating before our eyes, the aptly-named Upstart Productions is doing the unthinkable right now: Launching a new theater company in buzz-starved Deep Ellum ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  14 Nov 2008

Theater review: Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn

HEART AND MUSIC: Williams, Erica Peterman, Mark Mullino, Stevenson and Deaton turn the very gay songs of William Finn into a delightful cabaret — call it a “gaybaret” — at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre. If Woody Allen were gay and into musical theater, ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  7 Nov 2008

Theater reviews: The Light in the Piazza and The Mummy's Claw

If you didn’t know any better, the concept of The Light in the Piazza sounds like a screwball comedy: A mentally slow American meets a handsome Italian while visiting Florence, and because neither speaks the others’ language well, he doesn’t seem to ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  31 Oct 2008

Theater review part deux: The Good Negro

A preacher (Billy Eugene Jones, left) is comforted after a tragedy by a colleague (J. Bernard Calloway, center) while an FBI agent (Steven Walters) secretly records them in the world premiere of The Good Negro at DTC. Will the real African-American, ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  24 Oct 2008

Theater reviews: Fiorello!, On Golden Pond, and Ghosts

I wonder whether local theater companies, in planning their seasons, spent much time thinking about how close to the presidential election their productions would run, and if they considered any deeper messages in the selection of shows. Because it ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  17 Oct 2008

Texas Ballet Theater dancer graceful under pressure

Most gay men of a certain age probably remember the first time they saw Mikhail Baryshnikov — muscular legs clad in tights, leaping through the air with gravity-defying grace and athleticism — and swooning a little. For some, it may be when they first ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  17 Oct 2008

Theater review: Doubt, A Parable

If there’s one thing that makes all gay people uncomfortable to talk about, it’s child abuse. I know from experience that every time I hear on the news that a male high school teacher (or, god help me, elementary school) has been arrested for indecency ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  10 Oct 2008

Theater reviews: Legends and Look What's Happened to Pixie DeCosta

LOCAL ‘LEGENDS:’ Fictional stars Sylvia Glenn and Leatrice Monsee have nothing on the actors portraying them at Uptown Players — the crazy comic geniuses B.J. Cleveland, left, and Coy Covington. James Kirkwood’s play Legends — about a producer trying ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  10 Oct 2008

Theater review part deux: The Color Purple

THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN’: Shug Avery (Angela Robinson) can really “Push Da Button” of Celie — if only we saw more of that. Ideally, musical theater should be like bran cereal: good and good for you! Do your job well enough, and the benefits manifest ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  3 Oct 2008

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