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Theater review part deux: Slasher

Leave it to Kitchen Dog, those great contrarians of Dallas theater, to usher in the holidays with a play called Slasher (now playing at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary). There’s a long-standing tradition of holiday-themed splatter films, from ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eli Roth,  Wes Craven,  Piper Laurie,  Sissy Spacek

Restaurant review: Bailey's Prime Plus Steakhouse in Dallas

There is both a reckless arrogance and a casual safeness in opening one of three types of restaurants in Dallas: a taqueria, a corn dog stand, and a steakhouse. Texans know from each of these cuisines — it’s almost chemical. Chinese and Italian? You ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ed Bailey

Theater reviews: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Talk Radio

In hindsight, Dallas Theater Center kinda-hadda open its 51st season — its first in the boxy new Wyly Theatre in the Arts District — with a play, and a production, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Like a kid on Christmas morning overwhelmed by the ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Black Eyed Peas,  Keith Haring,  Barack Obama

Theater reviews: The Road to Qatar, Breathe, and My Sister in This House

MUSICALIBAN | ‘Two short Jews’ write an Arab musical comedy in Lyric Stage’s tuneful world premiere. The title of The Road to Qatar (now playing at the Irving Arts Center) is meant to conjure up those zany Hope-Crosby films where two hapless Americans ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Cole

Theater review part deux: Grey Gardens

If you’ve never seen the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, then open a new tab in your browser and add it to your Netflix queue. It’s schadenfreude at its most bizarre. Not only is it a cult-classic must-see for any gay person, it’s also recommended ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Doug Wright,  Drew Barrymore,  Jessica Lange,  HBO,  Edith Bouvier Beale

Theater reviews: Funny Girl and Vigils

I may be risking life and limb saying this, but here goes: Funny Girl does not require Barbra Streisand to be good. There it is; it’s out there now. Don’t send James Brolin to beat me up and steal my toaster oven. Yes, Babs became a star — and began ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: James Brolin,  Fanny Brice,  Jule Styne,  Rachel Dratch,  Ethel Merman

Theater reviews: Deathtrap and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Most gay men, at least those of a certain age, know the big twist in Deathtrap better than their straight brethren, based primarily on the film version. The stage version now at Pocket Sandwich Theatre doesn’t have the infamous surprise kiss (a ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ira Levin,  Neil Simon

Dallas' Martice Enterprises theater troupe putting on final show, Daddy Diaries: Diary of a Dad Man

WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING BADGES: Martice co-founder Marco Rodriguez often combined saucy Latino humor with a gay sensibility in the eight years of his theater troupe. Eight years might not qualify as an “era” to a geologist, but crammed into those ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Tyler Perry

Theatre Three presenting Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

ART IMITATING LIFE: Actor Bob Hess and director Terry Dobson both identified with the middle-aged gay man in . Bob Hess and Terry Dobson are both men “of a certain age” — which in the gay world means over 30 (not to say 40!) … and, therefore, ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Mark Hamill,  David Hyde Pierce,  Uta Hagen

Theater review: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

KLAN KLAN KLAN WENT THE TROLLEY: A new recruit (Trey Birkhead, center) deals with an alcoholic mechanic mechanic (Kevin Moore) and a racist colonel (John S. Davies) in CTD’s final play in the Texas Trilogy. If you know the locale (West Texas) and the ...

From ARNOLD WAYNE JONES OF DALLAS VOICE, Pegasus News,  21 Aug 2009

Related Topics: John Davies

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