Jesus Christ: King of the Jews. Janelle Lutz: Queen of the Judys. One of our all-time favorite Uptown Players actors returns to the role she was born to play in A Very Judy Christmas, a variety show-style extravaganza reminiscent of the best (and cheesiest) holiday specials of the 1950s and 60s. Written and directed by BJ Cleveland, the star-studded production features Lutz […]
We’ve gotten accustomed to spectacle. Bigger! Louder! Chorus line-ier! That’s because Uptown Players continues to outdo itself with one Broadway-worthy production after another. Yet in celebration of LGBT History Month, they’re shifting gears to focus on a pair of smaller-scale shows and we’re totally into it. Takes us back to the days when the theater troupe performed at the tiny KD Studio Theatre. Starting tonight and […]
You may never watch 1950s sitcoms the same way ever again. Imagine I Love Lucy if Ricky and Fred were pushing the twin beds together for a little afternoon action on all fours while Lucy and Ethel do interesting things with spatulas and whisks in the kitchen. That’s a down-and-dirty simplification of the plot of Uptown Players’ closing production, Perfect Arrangement. In this […]
The best drag queen road-trip movie ever (sorry, To Wong Foo) makes for one of the best stage musicals ever, too. Go figure. We’ve seen the Broadway version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and loved it (especially the part where they pulled us onstage to dance in a musical number). But we’re thrilled to see it on a smaller scale with […]
We hate weddings. Unless they’re disastrous. Then seat us in the front row! Our nuptials-gone-nasty dreams come true tonight through April 9 as Uptown Players presents It Shoulda Been You. The musical comedy hilariously brings together anything and everything that could possibly go wrong for a bride and groom, whether it’s religious clashes, drunken mothers-in-law, ex-boyfriends or long-buried scandals. It all […]
A lot has happened in the 23 years since Angels In America debuted. And that’s the exact reason to see the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play when Uptown Players brings the story back to the Dallas stage with the first of the two-part epic, Angels In America Part One: Millennium Approaches. Tony Kushner’s drama captures a time in LGBT […]
In the category of Most Unlikely Films To Be Made Into Broadway Musicals EVER, few titles have raised our eyebrows higher than The Toxic Avenger. The super-low-budget cult classic from the 1980s was schlocky fun at its finest. The reason midnight movie screenings exist. (The reason fast-forward buttons on VCRs exist.) Yet somebody thought the tale of a nerd who […]
In the era of social media, there’s no such thing as waiting for theater reviews to hit newsstands. As soon as audience members and critics leave, they immediately publish their reactions to what just unfolded onstage. That’s if they can resist tweeting during intermission. But back in 1982, a production’s cast, crew, playwright and director would agonize for hours over […]
Oh, the dramedy! Leave it to playwright Terrence McNally to find humor and humanity in the most unlikely of places: the relationship between a gay man and his dead partner’s mother. That’s the central conflict at the heart of Mothers and Sons, an Uptown Players regional premiere debuting Friday at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The visit from this mother-in-law is […]
Biting and touching: two of our favorite verbs! But they’re about to become our favorite adjectives, too, as they’re being used to describe the comedy, Harbor, which closes out the season for Uptown Players. The story focuses on Kevin, a gay man whose world is shaken in a manner only previously measurable by the Richter scale.When his irresponsible sister, Donna, […]
