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Two local DFW artists are coming together in AT&T Performing Arts Center's next show in the Elevator Project lineup. Slide By is a play written by our very own Thomas Ward and produced and directed by Elevator Project alum, Jake Nice.

2019 TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award Recipient Bishop Arts Theatre Center presents The Wild Party, a steamy prohibition tale, by Andrew Lippa. Directed by Adam Adolfo at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center, The Wild Party runs October 10 through October 27. Press Night/Opening Night will be Saturday, October 12 at 8:00 p.m.

The Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC), Oak Cliff's multicultural and multidiscipline center for the arts, continues its 25th Anniversary 'Silver Threads' season with playwright Kathleen Anderson Culebro's La Llorona: A Love Story. The production previews on February 7th with opening night Today, February 8th and continuing performances through February 24th.

The Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC), Oak Cliff's multicultural and multidiscipline center for the arts, continues its 25th Anniversary 'Silver Threads' season with playwright Kathleen Anderson Culebro's La Llorona: A Love Story. The production previews on February 7th with opening night Friday, February 8th and continuing performances through February 24th.

The Bishop Arts Theatre Center (BATC), Oak Cliff's multicultural and multidiscipline center for the arts, continues its 25th Anniversary 'Silver Threads' season with playwright Kathleen Anderson Culebro's La Llorona: A Love Story. The production previews on February 7th with opening night Friday, February 8th and continuing performances through February 24th.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund ("DLDF") is pleased to present the third annual Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret in fifteen cities as a part of Banned Books Week (September 24-29) the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The show will be performed over one week, some simultaneously, in the following cities:

Theatre Arlington is stepping outside the box this spring and asking the question, "What do you see?" in Red by John Logan.  Winner of six Tony Awards in 2010, including Best Play, Red goes inside the studio of famed Abstract-Expressionist artist Mark Rothko at the height of his career in 1958. Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art at the time, but is struggling with his young, idealistic assistant, Ken, and his own inner demons. Ken's answers to the initial question result in more thought-provoking and probing questions, shedding light on the meaning of art, integrity and commercialism. The two artists explosively challenge each other, revealing their own fears, philosophies, visions and secrets.

The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center today reminded all Dallas-based arts groups and artists that the application period for the Elevator Project 2018/2019 season closes next week. Applications will be accepted through Wednesday, January 31, 2018 online here. The Elevator Project is a program that presents small, emerging and/or culturally specific Dallas-based arts groups and artists in performance spaces on the Center's campus in the Dallas Arts District.

The nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center has started its new online submission process for the Elevator Project 2018/2019 season. Applications will be accepted beginning today through Wednesday, January 31, 2018 online here. The Elevator Project is a program that presents small, emerging and/or culturally specific Dallas-based arts groups and artists in performance space on the Center's campus in the Dallas Arts District. Applications can be submitted starting today at attpac.org/elevatorprojectapply.

Casting is now complete for the upcoming production of ELEMENTAL: Nature's Rhapsody. Alex Peters takes on the role of a young man struggling with the harsh realities of literary rejection while coping with the loss of his father. Currently in his first year of training in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting in the United Kingdom, Alex will return to North Texas next spring to play 'The Poet' in Adam Adolfo's ELEMENTAL: Nature's Rhapsody which is debuting in April at the AT&T Performing Arts Center as part of the Elevator Project series. After previously working with Adolfo on Theatre Arlington's Legally Blonde: The Musical, Peters interned in the Music Department on Dallas Theater Center's production of HAIR.

Director Adam Adolfo is proud to announce that ELEMENTAL: Nature's Rhapsody has cast Kimberly M. Oliver as Mother in the production receiving its premiere this spring as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center Elevator Project Season. Ms. Oliver was recently seen onstage as Ursula in Disney's When You Wish at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. She was also featured as Vivienne Kensington in Theatre Arlington's Legally Blonde The Musical, also directed by Adolfo. Kimberly is also the host of Broadway On Tuesdays at Alexandre's Bar. ELEMENTAL: Nature's Rhapsody is still casting its principle 19 performers via video submissions. For more information on auditioning via video submission please visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/1459361837478857/

Artes de la Rosa is proud to announce principle casting for the REGIONAL PREMIERE of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown receiving its first North Texas staging this July.

Artes de la Rosa will open on May 21st the Regional Premiere of WELCOME TO ARROYO'S by Pulitzer Prize Nominee Kristoffer Diaz.

Artes de la Rosa will open on May 21st the Regional Premiere of WELCOME TO ARROYO'S by Pulitzer Prize Nominee Kristoffer Diaz.

?Artes de la Rosa is proud to announce principle casting for the Artes de la Rosa Regional Premiere production of Welcome To Arroyo's by Pulitzer Prize Nominee Kristoffer Diaz. In it, two DJ's emcee four lives looping together for an entertaining mix tape in this thinking man's romantic comedy that explores family identity through a hip hop kaleidoscope.

On opening night, March 5th, of Artes de la Rosa's production of BIG FISH: THE MUSICAL 12 CHAIRS version, the production team, cast, and crew helped former Artes de la Rosa actor, Jonathan Flippo propose to his girlfriend, Erin Hardy who is also an Artes alum. Utilizing the 13-member cast of BIG FISH as back up, Jonathan, last seen in Man of La Mancha, sang 'Come What May' from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Scroll down for photos and video of the big proposal!

Artes de la Rosa is proud to announce BIG FISH: The Musical 12 Chairs Version will receive its first North Texas staging this March. The cast features 12 Artes de la Rosa stage debuts for this new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the Columbia Motion Picture directed by Tim Burton. Artistic Director Adam Adolfo directs the production. He reunites with Award Winning Musical Director Kristin Spires, who previously collaborated on the North Texas premiere of In the Heights, as well as productions of Into the Woods and Man of La Mancha. Serving as Choreographer is Austin Ray Beck whose work was last seen at the Rose Marine Theatre, Artes de la Rosa's home, in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. The production team also includes Kyle Harris as Lighting Designer, Mark Howard as Sound Designer, and Costume Design by Bentleigh Nesbit and Rodney Hudson. 

Artes de la Rosa is proud to announce principle casting for the Artes de la Rosa production of BIG FISH: 12 Chairs Version receiving its first North Texas staging this March.

The lively Dallas/Fort Worth theatre scene thrives due to the many local artists working for little more than applause. While not every production can be a home run, it's always nice to see a company attempt to create something new and unique. With MAN OF LA MANCHA at Artes de la Rosa, kudos are due for their experimental, daring approach to this oft-performed piece.