Jerry Russell News

The inmates are running the asylum! Well, not really, but it might be better if that were the case, in Joe Orton's classic sex-farce-with-a-kick What the Butler Saw, beginning its run at Fort Worth's Stage West on Thursday, July 5. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

It's 1656, and a large number of Portuguese Jews have found asylum in Amsterdam from the Inquisition.

George Bernard Shaw's pointed and charming classic Arms and the Man will begin the 2011-2012 season for Fort Worth's Stage West on Thursday, October 20.

George Bernard Shaw's pointed and charming classic Arms and the Man will begin the 2011-2012 season for Fort Worth's Stage West on Thursday, October 20.

Dallas Theater Center launches its 2011-2012 season with Shakespeare's beloved final play, The Tempest, at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Sept. 9 - Oct. 9.

According to the Dallas Theater Center's website, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka has been cast as in the Center's upcoming production of THE TEMPEST as Ariel.

'Your numbers are lower than Gandhi's cholesterol; and, after the election, we'll see you at Swap Meets signing autographs. You LOSER.' It's not easy to be a president running for re-election, clearly, in David Mamet's scathingly hilarious November, beginning its area premiere at Stage West on Thursday, June 23.

I'm Just Feeling a sudden sense of urgency mixed with intense exhaustion That's called middle age Alan Uh I am not Middle-aged That's also called middle age

I'm Just Feeling a sudden sense of urgency mixed with intense exhaustion That's called middle age Alan Uh I am not Middle-aged That's also called middle age

Justin Lazenby and Julie-Ann Jobson are newly engaged, living happily in Justin's apartment in the London Docklands area. And they have decided to throw a dinner party so that they can meet each other's parents, and the parents can meet each other.

Justin Lazenby and Julie-Ann Jobson are newly engaged, living happily in Justin's apartment in the London Docklands area. And they have decided to throw a dinner party so that they can meet each other's parents, and the parents can meet each other.

Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life. (Margrethe Bohr, in Copenhagen)

Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life. (Margrethe Bohr, in Copenhagen)

Gunner Johnson is not filled with the Christmas spirit. 'I'm tellin' ya, it's just another Hallmark holiday that got outta control,' he tells his wife Clara. But he's about to have to learn how to stop being a Grinch, as Stage West presents the utterly hilarious A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol, through January 17.

Gunner Johnson is not filled with the Christmas spirit. 'I'm tellin' ya, it's just another Hallmark holiday that got outta control,' he tells his wife Clara. But he's about to have to learn how to stop being a Grinch, as Stage West presents the utterly hilarious A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol, beginning Thursday, December 10.

Gunner Johnson is not filled with the Christmas spirit. 'I'm tellin' ya, it's just another Hallmark holiday that got outta control,' he tells his wife Clara. But he's about to have to learn how to stop being a Grinch, as Stage West presents the utterly hilarious A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol, beginning Thursday, December 10.

A wife who looks after the home. A husband who is an inventor. Two growing children. A knowing and unreliable maid, and two pets.

A wife who looks after the home. A husband who is an inventor. Two growing children. A knowing and unreliable maid, and two pets.

Welcome to Gilead, a picturesque (and fictional) small town in western Wisconsin, where everyone knows your name, and the fall colors along Copper Creek are dazzling. At least, that's how it seemed to Percy Talbott in the picture she found in a travel book. Reality turns out to be somewhat different, of course, as Stage West presents its first musical since moving back to its Vickery playhouse, James Valcq and Fred Alley's engaging and warm-hearted The Spitfire Grill, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff, beginning Thursday, July 9.

Welcome to Gilead, a picturesque (and fictional) small town in western Wisconsin, where everyone knows your name, and the fall colors along Copper Creek are dazzling. At least, that's how it seemed to Percy Talbott in the picture she found in a travel book. Reality turns out to be somewhat different, of course, as Stage West presents its first musical since moving back to its Vickery playhouse, James Valcq and Fred Alley's engaging and warm-hearted The Spitfire Grill, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff, beginning Thursday, July 9.