“One-Man Star Wars Trilogy:” The Force is strong in these samples
Lawson Taitte today writes about Charlie Ross of the One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, coming Thursday as part of the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. Here are a couple of YouTube clips, recorded for Cinemax,...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 3: Mamas’ Mother
In a week of notable theater, perhaps the most moving thing I’ve seen was at Addison’ Stone Cottage Theatre today in WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. An ad hoc group calling itself...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 4: Googleplex
An ad hoc group called Uncommon Ground (whose common ground has mostly been working for Uptown Players) put together a production of Jason Schafer’s comedy I Google Myself for this year’s Out of the...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 5: “Straight” man and Fairytales
Along with the Starwars guy, the big out-of-town act this first weekend of WaterTower Theatre’s 2009 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival was Seattle journalist (that’s right) David Schmader. I missed his...
View ArticleTaylor Hicks to star in Fort Worth “Grease”
American Idol winner Taylor Hicks is set to star in Grease when it comes to Casa Manana and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth September … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleLooping the Loop 6: Green
Flying Man Productions, a new company, gave the world premiere of Green as part of the 2009 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. Only three performances were on the schedule, and I caught the last one on...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 7: Some People
Thomas Riccio’s Some People, presented by Project X: Theatre, had the first of three performances in WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival this evening. At nearly 100 minutes, it’s a...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 8: The Play about the Coach
Plays about sports tempt writers into all kinds of strained metaphors, but here’s a simple one: The Play about the Coach is a winner. WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival imported this...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 9: Two shows
On the next-to-last day of WaterTower Theatre’s 2009 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, I got to two shows. SceneShop’s The Interrogation of Vince Banyon turned out to be a weak script, weakly performed....
View ArticleLooping the Loop 10: Onstage religion
The snippety attitude Variety took when it discovered this week that Baylor University was sending performers to New York (in a show that originated at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Festival...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 11: Endgame
The last two shows I saw at this year’s Out of the Loop Festival both happened in the Studio Theatre. Director Jocelyn Wiebe did what she could with [sic], but the piece about three artistic wannabees...
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Looping the Loop 1: On the way
I’m about to leave for the opening night of WaterTower Theatre’s 2010 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, where I’ll see the first of five different one-man shows New York-based performance artists Mike...
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Looping the Loop 2: Talking about “I Sing!”
Theater people — and I suspect audiences — have to relate a new work to something they already know in order to begin taking it in. For the first matinee slot in this year’s Out of the Loop Fringe...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 3: Sex
It’s sometimes difficult to believe that barely more than a generation ago someone like Lenny Bruce could get put in jail for saying a certain four-letter word onstage. Especially when you see a show...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 4: A punishment for gluttony
Rite of Passage Theatre Company has been around for the last year — at festivals only, far as I can tell. The previous offerings were scripts by co-founder Clay Wheeler. At this year’s Out of the Loop,...
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Looping the Loop 5: Chopping and dishing
The second and third shows I saw Sunday at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival were both one-man shows written by the performer. The similarities pretty much end … [visit site to read...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 6: Cyrano Players
On a Tuesday evening, it’s terrific to see the WaterTower Theatre parking filled nearly to capacity for the OUt of the Loop Fringe Festival. A lot of Dallas theater folk are here to see the staged...
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Looping the Loop 7: A Bible story from Denton
Contemporary drama has quite a repertoire of dramas based on the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. The latest comes from Denton by way of Addison: Videotape, Sundown Collaborative Theatre’s … [visit...
View ArticleLooping the Loop 8: Theater machine
The last show I saw at this year’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre — I’m taking a much-needed few days off beginning in the morning — was David Bithell’s The Difference Engine....
View ArticleOut of the Loop 2012: International Falls
I thought Thomas Ward’s new play International Falls was one of the best original scripts I’ve ever seen produced in Dallas. I have to say, though, that it was kind of a comfort that Ward stars in the...
View ArticleVote for favorite WaterTower Loop show
For the first time ever, WaterTower Theatre is allowing Out of the Loop Fringe Festival patrons to vote for their favorite show in each of the three venues of the festival. The winner in each category...
View ArticleMontgomery Sutton: Actor and now…playwright!
About Your Colonel from Montgomery Sutton on Vimeo. I see Montgomery Sutton around the Dallas theater scene a lot, which is refreshing about a guy who lives in New York. The area native played Romeo...
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Don’t sit at home: Dallas and Fort Worth are bursting with great theater this...
The lobby of Fort Worth's new Amphibian Stage Productions (Lawson Taitte/Staff)visit site to read more]
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Looping the Loop 1: WaterTower Theatre opens the 2013 Out of the Loop Fringe...
From left, Natalie Young as Fanny, Montgomery Sutton as Lette and Ted Wold as Scheffler performed in The Ugly One at the WaterTower Theatre (Nan Coulter/Special)visit site to read more]
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Out of the Loop Fringe Festival: A ten day arts festival in Addison
Longford Dance Festival in Longford, Ireland (Fiona MacGinty, flickr.com)visit site to read more]
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Looping the Loop 2: Visit to a small ex-planet
After squeezing into a sold-out audience on the opening night of the 2013 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, it was a bit of a … [visit site to read more]
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Looping the Loop 3: American Actors Company returns with ‘Phoenix’
Lincoln Thompson and Lindsey Christian in "Phoenix" (Ben Torres/Special)visit site to read more]
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Looping the Loop 4: A photo tour of arriving at a theater festival — at...
I’m still getting used to taking photos with my current phone, though it’s more than a year old. I’ve never had a very steady hand with a camera, so my DSLR has one of those steadycam devices. So bear...
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Looping the Loop 5: A roundup of the four dramas I saw Friday and Saturday at...
Elizabeth Evans and Duc Nguyen in "Circus Tracks"visit site to read more]
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Looping the Loop 6: So much going on at WaterTower Theatre in Addison
Walter Lee singing at the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival on Saturday evening (Lawson Taitte/Staff)visit site to read more]
View ArticleLooping the Loop 7: Great solo acts at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop...
As a theater critic — or maybe it’s just personal taste — I naturally gravitate towards actual plays, where more than one actor is performing, over one-person shows. So the first six entries I saw at...
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One-person shows spark the 2013 Out of the Loop festival
Ayana Hampton in 'The Morning After Show' at the 2013 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival (Robert W. Hart/Special)visit site to read more]
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WaterTower Theatre adds performances Sunday evening of 3 “Best of the Loop”...
Diana Sheehan (2012 file photo) Once again, … [visit site to read more]
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Seven world premieres at WaterTower’s 13th annual Out of the Loop Fringe...
Cynthia Scott's one-woman show, 'One Raelette's Journey,' will be one of the highlights of this year's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival (Cynthia Scott)visit site to read more]
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‘Trick Boxing,’‘No Show,’‘Roberts’ Eternal Goldfish’ win Best of Loop
Roberts' Eternal Goldfish (Audacity Theatre Lab) Trick … [visit site to read more]
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All for one: Dallas Solo Fest 2014 will feature 8 solo shows
Roberts' Eternal Goldfish (Audacity Theatre Lab) How do you … [visit site to read more]
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‘Beware of Plastics,’ excellent teen show at Out of the Loop, to offer Friday...
Beware of Plastics played the Out of the Loop and will be performed again at the Actors Conservatory Theatre (Actors Conservatory Theatre)visit site to read more]
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Risk-taking rewarded as DTC’s Les Mis & Elevator Project’s first show honored...
(Ben Torres/Special Contributor)Director Liesl Tommy's controversial new take on Les Miserables earned honors from the DFW Theater Critics Forum this year.visit site to read more]
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How Loopy are you? Out of Loop Fringe Festival open for submissions
(Kelsey Leigh Ervi)'Honky' was one of the Out of the Loop offerings in 2014 Got a dream project in … [visit site to read more]
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Patti LuPone, Out of the Loop among this week’s top five theater picks
Patti Lupone performing Woulda , Coulda, Shoulda at 54 Below on July 22, 2013. Some sing about the man that got away. Patti LuPone sings about the shows that got … [visit site to read more]
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