September 10-October 10, 2010 By William Shakespeare
Directed by Kevin Moriarty
Potter Rose Performance Hall
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
A KING, HIS SON, AND A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER. You’ll see why this was the Bard’s most popular play during his lifetime. Raucous comedy and large-scale battlefield action punctuate the moving drama of a prodigal son who must learn to become a man and a king. With England torn by a civil war, the ailing King Henry is desperately fighting rebel armies. Meanwhile, his heir, Prince Hal, is partying with the London lowlifes, including (give him a cheer!) Shakespeare’s most beloved comic character, the drunken, obese knight, Sir John Falstaff—brought to life by the inimitable Randy Moore, the only actor who, over five decades, has been directed in productions by every one of Dallas Theater Center’s artistic directors.
RAIN
World Premiere November 5-December 5, 2010
By Regina Taylor
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
Potter Rose Performance Hall
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
A Co-Production with Goodman Theatre
LOYALTY, BETRAYAL... FAMILY. The world premiere of a moving, powerful new work by Dallas playwright Regina Taylor, the acclaimed writer of Crowns and Drowning Crow, promises to be a theatrical experience of unparalleled drama not to be missed. Fiercely independent Iris has made a successful life for herself as a journalist in New York City, but when her marriage fails, she begins to unravel. In search of solace, Iris returns to her mother’s home in Dallas’ South Oak Cliff. But her homecoming proves more confounding than consoling when her mother makes a shocking announcement. As long-buried family secrets come to light, Iris must face her past and make some difficult decisions about the future. Regina Taylor’s Rain is a moving exploration of family, loyalty and betrayal. A co-production with Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre, this warm, humor-laced play goes on to its Chicago run after its debut in Dallas.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
November 26-December 24, 2010
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Richard Hellesen
Music by David de Berry
Directed by Matthew Gray
Kalita Humphreys Theater
SCROOGE UP YOUR HOLIDAYS. It’s the Dallas Theater Center production everybody in town, from toddlers to grandparents, looks forward to the most. No holiday story compares to A Christmas Carol. And no holiday season is complete without this bright, funny, spooky, moving, soul-stirring, heart-warming, uplifting classic. It’s filled with traditional and original songs that will have you whistling on your way home as merrily as Mr. Fezziwig. For the first time, Brierley Resident Acting Company member and longtime Dallas Theater Center favorite, Chamblee Ferguson (Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) will portray the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Get in the spirit with this glorious production, which helps support the North Texas Food Bank. As Tiny Tim would say, “God bless us, every one!”
Community Partner North Texas Food Bank
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
February 4-March 13, 2011
By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Scott Schwartz
Starring
Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh
Kalita Humphreys Theater
A GAME OF OLD MAID TO DIE FOR. It’s murder most funny as the homicidal Brewster sisters of Brooklyn take to relieving the loneliness of old men by inviting them in for a nice glass of homemade elderberry wine. It just happens to be laced with a few additives: arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide. Award-winning Broadway legends Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh join forces in this fresh, new take of this black comic farce, one of the most popular plays in the history of American theater.
March 11-April 10, 2011
By Horton Foote
Directed by Joel Ferrell
Potter Rose Performance Hall
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Part of the Foote Festival
FAMILY MELTDOWN, TEXAS-STYLE. Texas playwright Horton Foote has delighted us with dozens of classic plays (The Trip to Bountiful) and films (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies). In an unprecedented collaboration, Dallas Theater Center brings together theaters and institutions across the metroplex for the region-wide Foote Festival to celebrate the work of the legendary “quiet voice of Texas.” As part of this history-making festival, Dallas Theater Center presents the regional premiere of this richly drawn character study of a multi-generational Texas family during the 1980s oil bust. A hit on Broadway last year, Dividing the Estate is a clear-eyed, witty portrayal of a family slow to surrender its sense of entitlement—and quick to start a feeding frenzy when the matriarch passes on.
Assistant Producing Partners Bank of Texas
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Jackson Walker, L.L.P.
CABARET
April 22-May 22, 2011
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Book by Joe Masteroff
Directed and Choreographed by Joel Ferrell
Potter Rose Performance Hall
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
IN HERE, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Wilkommen to the Kit Kat Club. Take your seat at a bar table, order a little something from your fetching cocktail waitress, and immerse yourself in the musical theater event of a lifetime. You’re not just at the show, you’re in the show as we transform the Wyly’s Potter Rose Performance Hall into 1930s Berlin. Inside the cabaret, Sally Bowles and the beguiling Emcee live in a seedy, sexy world of delicious decadence, while outside, the gathering storm of Nazi oppression grows. Filled with hit Broadway songs and a story that still speaks profoundly to us today, Cabaret is a knock-out, once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience.
Associate Producing Partner GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER, L.L.P.
Community Partner Dallas Holocaust Museum
THE WIZ
July 8-August 14, 2011
Book by William F. Brown
Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls
Directed by Kevin Moriarty
Potter Rose Performance Hall
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
A Collaboration with Dallas Black Dance Theatre
EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD. It’s got rock. It’s got gospel. It’s got soul. And oh my, the dancing! In a dream collaboration, Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Black Dance Theatre, the city’s oldest continuously operating dance company, fill the Wyly Theatre with dancing, singing and laughter for the dazzling musical that won seven Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 1975. Featuring Brierley Resident Acting Company members Liz Mikel and Cedric Neal, this eye-popping, high-energy family hit starts with a tornado and keeps lifting from there, as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion “Ease on Down the Road” and ultimately learn there’s no place like home.
The AT&T Performing Arts Center now offers secure underground parking immediately adjacent to the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Lexus Silver Parking. The Lexus Silver Parking facility is located beneath the currently under-construction City Performance Hall, directly across (East) Jack Evans from the Wyly Theatre. Lexus Silver Parking is a brightly lit, one story parking facility. There is a secure underground tunnel that provides direct access to the Wyly Theater from Lexus Silver Parking. More info
