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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Dallas Theater Center announces 2008-2009 season

By Pegasus News wire

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Earlier this week, Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty talked about changing Dallas Theater Center and making it a company "for Dallas audiences with Dallas actors." Along with this change, he also revealed the new season and what he hopes to accomplish:

Welcome to our 50th Anniversary Season! For a half-century Dallas Theater Center has presented hundreds of plays of all kinds, for hundreds of thousands of playgoers of all ages. Some members of our audience saw their very first play at DTC. Others have been loyal subscribers from the very beginning. I am so excited to join you in the DTC family and become a part of this proud tradition. I can assure you that we are more committed than ever to enriching the life of our community through the power of theater, and that we’ll make excellent use of our experience to offer you the most exhilarating season in our history!

Join us on a journey through a dazzling array of dynamic, surprising, and moving productions – a mix of vibrant musicals, classic stories, and world premieres. We’ll build on our tradition of bringing together a company of compelling, diverse, talented professional theater artists from here in Dallas — and from Broadway to Hollywood — to create once-in-a-lifetime productions made specifically for our community!

We’ll have something for everyone at DTC this year. For the first time ever our season includes two dynamic musicals, three new plays, two world premieres, and a collection of classic stories that lie at the heart of Western civilization and unite us in our shared humanity. We’ll journey from the world of classic rock to the Bible, from a Major League Baseball diamond to a Kansas farmhouse, from the creation of the world to the birth of the modern civil rights movement. We’ll explore questions of justice, heroism, and love, celebrate our faith and our common values, and look to the past to understand who we are today.

And that’s not all! We’re inviting you to join us in a season-long conversation with your friends and neighbors throughout the community. Stay after any production and share your thoughts in a post-show audience conversation. Enroll in one of our invigorating enrichment opportunities for adults, children or families. Revel with your friends — and meet new ones — at pre- and post-show cocktail parties in our affinity group series, where you’ll get to socialize with the artists whose work you’ve enjoyed on stage. And bring your family together to relive the spirit of the season with our annual production of A Christmas Carol.

After 50 years, we believe more strongly than ever in the power of theater to change people’s lives, bring communities together, contribute to the education of our citizens, and help us understand and celebrate each other and ourselves.

I hope to see you throughout the year at our historic Kalita Humphreys Theater as we continue to pursue the vision set forth by DTC’s founders: to engage, entertain, and inspire our entire community. I look forward to welcoming you to your Dallas Theater Center and joining you in a dialogue in our public square.

Kevin Moriarty

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

  • The Who's Tommy from August 27 – September 21, 2008. Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend, Book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff, with additional music and lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon. Directed by Kevin Moriarty. Since it exploded on the charts almost 40 years ago as the first rock opera ever written, Tommy has been freshly re-interpreted for each generation in concerts, on film, and on stage. Now this classic, cross-generational, pop phenomenon comes to life at DTC in a new, vibrant, once-in-a-lifetime production.
  • The Good Negro from October 15 – November 9, 2008. By Tracey Scott Wilson. Directed by Liesl Tommy, and co-production with PUBLIC. Alabama. 1962. When an African-American woman is beaten and arrested for taking her young daughter into a whites-only restroom, a trio of burgeoning civil rights leaders decides to make a stand. But first they must convince their community that now is the time to throw off the shackles of being “good negroes” and to rise up against hate and injustice.
  • A Christmas Carol from November 22 – December 28, 2008. By Charles Dickens, adapted by Richard Hellesen, music by David de Berry. Directed by Joel Ferrell. Think of it as the ultimate scary ghost story, but with a happy ending! Charles Dickens’ beloved classic about a mean old man spooked into rediscovering what life’s about jumps across the footlights in this annual DTC revival of a holiday favorite.
  • In The Beginning from January 21 – February 15, 2009. Co-production with Southern Methodist University. Directed by Kevin Moriarty. Step back in time to discover the magic of these rarely produced plays that bring to life your favorite stories from the book of Genesis. Marvel at the mix of poetry and pageantry that makes these medieval plays as compelling today as they were more than 500 years ago.
  • Back Back Back from March 11 – April 5, 2009. By Itamar Moses. Back Back Back is a rollicking saga of two of America’s greatest pastimes: baseball...and running from the past. In a tense drama spanning two turbulent decades of modern baseball history, acclaimed playwright Itamar Moses penetrates the sensational headlines to reveal the human reality of the sporting life and the complex pressures that lead some men to cheat.
  • A Family Musical from April 22 – May 17, 2009. The final show of our season will be the world premiere of an enchanting new family musical based on a Newberry Award-winning novel. It’s so fresh and new, we can’t yet reveal the title!

Posted by Shawn

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Carol Rice

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What a great sounding season! (Other than A Christmas Carol, which I just can't stomach yet again, no matter how well done. I know there are some folks who just love it, though, and it DOES bring in the bucks.) I may have to see a show there again - it's been years. I got tired of them importing all their actors, but this sounds fun.

Carol M. Rice, Artistic Director of Rover Dramawerks in Plano

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