Ben Bryant News

City Springs Theatre Company will continue its sixth season with the crowd-pleasing Legally Blonde: The Musical, part of the 2023-2024 PNC Bank Season, May 3 - 19, with direction and choreography by Broadway star Nikki Snelson.

American theater icon, Tony award winning playwright and longtime Undermain Theatre collaborator, David Rabe is back! The long-awaited workshop production of his new play HE’S BORN, HE’S BORNE will be staged at Undermain Theatre in a limited run this April. In this new play, Rabe explores a primitive, medieval world inhabited by humble peasants, angels who tend the moon and stars and the specter of death who walks among them.  

Multi-award-winning songwriter Tones And I has returned with “I Made It.” The new song, which is available now on all streaming platforms, was composed by Tones And I for the Netflix Film True Spirit. “I Made It” is inspired by True Spirit, which chronicles the life of the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson (Teagan Croft).

True Spirit is directed by Sarah Spillane, written by Sarah Spillane, Rebecca Banner and Cathy Randall and stars Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis, Bridget Webb, Vivien Turner, Stacy Clausen, Todd Lasance, with Josh Lawson and Anna Paquin. Watch the new video trailer now!

The Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) will offer its annual Broadway Boot Camp this July for students Grades 8-12 with an additional option for Grades 1-7. This year's special guest instructors will be Ben Bryant and Lonnie E. Davis Jr.

Ochre House Theater presents the World Premiere of MOUSEY, a new dark musical written and directed by Carla Parker. Things have gone rotten in the world of toys. Mrs. Mousey begins to suspect that there is more to life than just being a toy and launches into the dangerous journey that questions the very existence of their innocent lives. Rebellion and unrest erupt and turn the toys' once harmonious lives into bitter-sweet chaos, where once peace-loving and compliant toys turn on one another in search of a Utopia that does not exist. Original music, dance, and spectacle create a riveting story of loss of innocence and awakening. 'If we aren't toys, then what are we?'

Ochre House Theater presents the World Premiere of MOUSEY, a new dark musical written and directed by Carla Parker. Things have gone rotten in the world of toys. Mrs. Mousey begins to suspect that there is more to life than just being a toy and launches into the dangerous journey that questions the very existence of their innocent lives. Rebellion and unrest erupt and turn the toys' once harmonious lives into bitter-sweet chaos, where once peace-loving and compliant toys turn on one another in search of a Utopia that does not exist. Original music, dance, and spectacle create a riveting story of loss of innocence and awakening. 'If we aren't toys, then what are we?'

BAThe 2018 vintage at Jacob's Creek got the VIP treatment, as acclaimed actor Chris Hemsworth joined the team to get an insider's view on creating one of the world's most unique wines, Double Barrel.

Ochre House Theater is pleased to present the world premiere of KAPTAIN KOCKADOO, an exciting new musical, written and directed by Carla Parker. Join the Kaptain and his crew as they navigate the world of children's television through the eyes of a religious zealot.

Ochre House Theater will present the world premiere of DREAMING ELECTRIC, by Kevin Grammer.

If you know your old movies, you probably know about the old studio system. A studio would put actors under contract for a period of time during which the actor was obligated to appear in a certain number of films.

Pegasus Theatre kicks off its 29th season with a production of REHEARSAL FOR MURDER! by Kurt Kleinmann. REHEARSAL FOR MURDER! is another entry in the popular Living Black & White series of plays that chronicle the adventures of Harry Hunsacker, would-be actor turned would-be detective, Nigel Grouse, Harry's paid-by-the-hour assistant and friend, and Lt. Foster of the real police. The production will begin Sneak Preview Performances on December 29, 2013 and open officially on Thursday, January 2, 2014. There will be a Special New Year's Eve performance featuring Champagne and Cake after the show. There are more details in the performance schedule which follows.

XSR: Die! (Cross Stage Right--Die!) by Kurt Kleinmann will be presented by Pegasus Theatre, opening tonight, December 31, 2012, and running through January 20, 2013, at the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts, 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson.

XSR: Die! (Cross Stage Right--Die!) by Kurt Kleinmann will be presented by Pegasus Theatre, opening December 31, 2012, and running through January 20, 2013, at the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts, 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson.

Pegasus Theater will present The Frequency of Death!, a new play in the much beloved series of 'Living Black & White' shows designed and produced by Pegasus Theater since 1986.

WaterTower Theatre (WTT) continues its 12th season with the regional premiere of Is He Dead?, a newly discovered Mark Twain comedy.

WaterTower Theatre (WTT) continues its 12th season with the regional premiere of Is He Dead?, a newly discovered Mark Twain comedy.

WaterTower Theatre (WTT) continues its 12th season with the regional premiere of Is He Dead?, a newly discovered Mark Twain comedy. Is He Dead? will run April 1 - 25 at the Addison Theatre Centre.