Palanaki Community Outreach With Urban Arts Collective Partners For Urban Arts' CINDERELLA Production
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 27, 2022
Dallas' premiere urban theater, Urban Arts Center (UAC), partners with Palanaki Community Outreach for their youth-centered production of Cinderella. Palanaki Community Outreach is a guiding light to provide a safe and loving environment for children. They recognize that early physical, cognitive, social, and emotional developments are an important beginning to a lifetime of success.
Duke Ellington Takes Center Stage In Urban Arts Center's LOVE YOU MADLY
by Stephi Wild
- May 24, 2022
Dallas' premiere urban theater, Urban Arts Center (UAC) closes its 2nd season with a big band tribute to the Harlem Cotton Club of the 1920s with “Love You Madly: Celebrating the Music of Duke Ellington.” UAC Producing Executive Director, Jiles R. King II, helms the Dallas based jazz band, dancers, singers and narrators.
The BLK Experience Pop-Up Museum Returns for Second Immersive Installation
by Stephi Wild
- Jan 31, 2022
The BLK Experience Museum, an innovative pop-up museum dedicated to celebrating black lives and black excellence returns to Dallas’ Urban Arts Center for the month of February 2022. The limited engagement exhibition will open to the public on February 5th and run throughout Black History Month.
Oak Cliff Gets Its Own Holiday Tradition With AN OAK CLIFF CAROL
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 29, 2021
Dallas' premiere urban theater, Urban Arts Center continues its 2nd season with a female focused adaptation of Charles Dicken's “A Christmas Carol.” Set in the heart of Dallas' southern sector, An Oak Cliff Carol follows the journey of Elana Scrooge (JuNene K), a self-made business woman, as she is shown the err of her ways. Filled with all the familiar characters, Dickens' story, adapted by UAC Producing Artistic Director Jiles R King II, is filled with R&B, soul, and gospel music.
BWW Reviews: Outstanding Writing, Direction, and Acting Elevates THE BROTHERS SIZE to Antiquity and Back
by Buster Spiller
- Sep 30, 2014
Despite its billing of a tale woven in the Louisiana bayou during the 21st century as written by 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney, 'The Brothers Size' actually has its genesis in some West African village over 3,700 miles away across the Atlantic Ocean, serving as a cultural bridge connecting the ancient with the contemporary.
With musician S-Ankh Rasa who hails from Dakar, Senegal operating as a silent but completely integrated spiritual guide with his solitary drum, unseen to the characters but very present to the audience, the beats which emanate from his instrument creates the storytelling space for three modern day male griots to narrate a tale so visually moving and powerful that it simples leave you speechless from start to finish.
Under the outstanding production team of director Tre Garrett and assistant director George W. Donaldson III, running at one hour and 15 minutes, the show reviewed was one of several preview shows before the production opens on Fri., Oct. 3.
Jim Crawford, Jessica Cavanagh & More to Lead WaterTower Theatre's GOOD PEOPLE, 6/6-29
by Tyler Peterson
- May 5, 2014
WaterTower Theatre today announced the cast for David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, running June 6 - June 29, 2014 at the Addison Theatre Centre. The ensemble cast stars Jessica Cavanagh as Margaret, Jim Crawford as Mike, Michelle Courtney Schwartz as Jean, Pam Dougherty as Dottie, JuNene K. as Kate and David Price as Stevie.
BWW Reviews: BLACK AT THE ASSASSINATION Deserves A+ for Compelling History Lesson
by Buster Spiller
- Oct 21, 2013
Directed by Becki McDonald, who makes some excellent directing choices with her large cast of fifteen adult and children actors by combining brief oratory, traditional dialogue, and injecting cast members into the audience to DRAW viewers dead smack into the action. This created a theater experience that is equally educational, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Use of mixed media was also a component but the limitations of the performance space really hampered full immersion into the subject matter created by Robertson and Spencer in their script.
Norton and Whitfield Lead the Pack in the BEST OF THE BEST
by Buster Spiller
- Feb 20, 2012
Teco Theatrical Productions has reached a milestone with its Annual New Play Competition. Now in its 10th year, this staple of the Dallas theater community celebrates six (6) local playwrights selected by a reading committee who compete for an opportunity to win $1,000 by audience vote of their favorite 1-act play.
SATER Presents MY FIRST TIME At Dalls Hub Theater 4/4-4/17
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 4, 2009
The Shane-Arts Theatrical Ensemble Repertory (SATER) continues their tradition of bringing an exciting premiere to the Fringe and local theater festivals. From their critically acclaimed and hit production of Matt & Ben during the first festival, Transposing Shakespeare in the second, the world premiere of Reason for Referral last year and they will not disappoint with their entry for 2009.
SATER Presents MY FIRST TIME At Dalls Hub Theater 4/4-4/17
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Mar 25, 2009
The Shane-Arts Theatrical Ensemble Repertory (SATER) continues their tradition of bringing an exciting premiere to the Fringe and local theater festivals. From their critically acclaimed and hit production of Matt & Ben during the first festival, Transposing Shakespeare in the second, the world premiere of Reason for Referral last year and they will not disappoint with their entry for 2009.
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