MID CITIES ARTS COLLECTIVE

by Pati Buehler - November 04, 2025

Who doesn't recognize the music, the dancing and the story?  Casa’s own Parker Esse is at the helm of directing and choreographing this high-energy piece, along with Phil Reno as musical director/conductor. Both are brilliant....

by Pati Buehler - September 03, 2025

This 'feel good' gem of a 1950's movie musical directed & choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, featuring Jean Hagen & Rita Moreno & Cyd Charisse, to name a few icons. ...

by Kate McCrory - April 04, 2025

The Kennedy Center canceled Dixie's Tupperware Party after D.C. outlawed fun and independent women. It’s funny because JFK loved ladies, and everyone loves Dixie. Their loss. ...

by Kate McCrory - March 13, 2025

Into the Breeches! delighted the audience on opening night at the Irving Arts Center. The comedy is set in Irving, Texas, in 1942 at the beginning of World War II. Into the Breeches! uses a familiar trope about a play within a play. ...

by Kate McCrory - March 04, 2025

Family Music Theatre presents Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical at the New Vida Center through March 8th as part of their commitment to family-oriented productions.This musical is based on the 1997 movie taking place when the Russian Revolution began and leading into the 1920’s. Anya is an orphan ...

by Sam Lisman - February 04, 2025

A year or so ago, two DFW theaters in neighboring cities both performed the same play, on the same days, at the same times.  If you were willing to pay to use the Tollway, and depending on traffic, they were about ten minutes aways from each other.  I chock that up to bad timing and poor coordinatio...

by Kate McCrory - February 02, 2025

DESTROYING DAVID is a triumph for Jason Odell Williams, Amanda Reyes, Evan Michael Woods, and Circle Theater. DESTROYING DAVID is mesmerizing from start to finish. To answer your question: Yes, you should see it....

by Sam Lisman - January 23, 2025

Those who knock Shakespeare like to say that his plays aren’t relevant to our lives or our society – what I think they really mean is that the language he uses is challenging for us, and thus doesn’t seem relevant, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.  Rather than point them to Anthony Jese...

by Theresa Bertram - November 11, 2024

Going to MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL 2: CRUISING THROUGH THE CHANGE at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, which was presented November 1-3, was like joining a big party bound by women who were embracing the aging process and laughing in the face of every hot flash, mood swing, and memory lapse! Ba...