You’ve got a story to tell. Perhaps six or seven. (Or as many as 43 if you were on the gay scene back in the 1970s.) Uptown Players is looking for the very best tales as part of Pride Write, a competition seeking original one-act plays for the 2016 Uptown Players Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival. The judging panel is […]
Most of us are about to enjoy a long weekend thanks to the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday. And just in time, calendars are finally filling up with events competing for our attention. Here are five worthy contenders: Friday Late Night at the DMA What: Join fellow art lovers until midnight at the Dallas Museum of […]
When a love triangle happens in Egypt, is it a love pyramid? That’s the question that pops to mind every time we think of Aida, the Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation with music by Elton John and Lyrics by Tim Rice. Next weekend, Uptown Players and Turtle Creek Chorale join forces for a concert version of the hit musical. With a […]
Adios, Big Tex! It’s the last weekend of the State Fair, so we know many of you will be making a last-chance visit. But there are plenty of great things to do that don’t involve mass amounts of people and overpriced things on sticks. Carve out some time in your schedule for these five great options this weekend. Tonight-Sunday Harbor […]
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, […]
We are giving our loyal subscribers a chance to win tickets to Uptown Players “Harbor.” Enter below for your chance to win by 11:59 p.m. on October 13. Winners selected at random. For more information, visit the online edition here. a Rafflecopter giveaway
Soak up the sun while you can. The stores already have Halloween candy out, so cooler temps and bulkier clothes will be here before you know it. Until then, it’s still summer, bitches! So live it up and hit one or all of these five great events around town. Friday to September 13 Hedwig and The Angry Inch What: The […]
Encore! Encore! There are only four musicals ever written that we will see over and over again, anywhere from high school theaters to the massive stages of Broadway. And every cruise ship in between. For anyone keeping score, that very short list includes Cabaret, Chicago and Avenue Q. And because you’re smart, you’ve figured out #4 based solely on the […]
We are giving our loyal subscribers a chance to win a pair tickets to Uptown Players Hedwig and the Angry Inch performance. Enter below for your chance to win by 11:59 p.m. on August 26. Winners selected at random. For more information, go to the online edition here. a Rafflecopter giveaway
We love to pretend. Or “cos play” as the kids call it. If you need a Civil War captain, a bootleg Eeyore or a naughty leather daddy, we’re your guy. Heck, we’ve been known to slap on a harness, the donkey head and carry around a musket when we’re feeling indecisive. So we have mad respect for Frank Abangale, Jr., […]
