Stage Notes: A Weekly Aggregate Post About Theater, Classical Music, Dance, Comedy, and Stage News

Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music, dance, comedy, and stage news, events, reviews, and other pertinent information.

Opening This Week:

• Amphibian Stage: Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?), opened Wednesday-April 12.
• Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Bartók, Rózsa & Brahms, opened Thursday-Saturday.
• The Cliburn: Cliburn Festival: America 250, through Sunday at The Modern.
• Onstage in Bedford: Sylvia, opened Thursday-April 12.
• Avant Chamber Ballet: Pulcinella: Reimagined with Orchestra of New Spain, Friday and Saturday at Moody Performance Hall.
• NTPA: Hello, Dolly!, Friday-April 4 at Willow Bend Center for the Arts, pictured.
• Art Centre Theatre: Masquerade of Shadows! A Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Whodunnit!!, Friday-April 5.
• Runway Theatre: Young Frankenstein, Friday-April 12.
• Dallas Theater Center: Ragtime, Friday-April 19.
• Jubilee Theatre: Test to Testimony, Friday-April 26.

Onstage Now:

• Circle Theatre: King James, through Saturday.
• Pocket Sandwich Theatre: Arsenic and Old Lace, through Saturday.
• Rover Dramawerks: All’s Fair in Love and Theatre, through Saturday.
• Allen Contemporary Theatre: Escanaba in da Moonlight, through Sunday.
• Broadway at the Bass: Back to the Future, through Sunday.
• The Firehouse Theatre: The Producers, through Sunday.
• Garland Civic Theatre: Rumors, through Sunday.
• Stage West: A Case for the Existence of God, through Sunday, pictured.
• Uptown Players: Pure Glitter, through Sunday.
• The Core Theatre: Charley’s Aunt, through April 12.
• Fever: SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of SAW, through April 12 at Theatre Too.
• WaterTower Theatre: Goodnight Oscar, through April 12.

Review: Garland Civic Theatre’s ‘Rumors’ is a Laugh-Filled Chaotic Romp

First, sincere apologies to GCT for this late review on closing weekend. Simply, time got away from me. But Rumors is still worth noting for its rampant fun. Director Eddy Herring juggled a cast into a production of comedic chaos that delivered with gusto.

Neil Simon’s story centers on an anniversary party. Four couples are due to arrive, but the first pair, Ken and Chris arrive to find their host, Charley, with a minor gunshot wound and their hostess, Myra, missing. What follows is a series of frantic cover-ups, mistaken identities, and increasingly preposterous lies that snowball as subsequent couples arrive and are drawn into an accidental conspiracy.

Dallas Theater Center Announces 2026/27 Season Under New Artistic Director

On Friday, DTC revealed the lineup of shows for its upcoming season. This also marks the first season with the new Enloe/Rose Artistic Director, Jaime Castañeda. A new era for DTC filled with new works and world premieres for the new season. The new lineup kicks off in September.

“New work is the engine of the American Theater, and Dallas Theater Center will be a laboratory for artists who have something urgent and honest to express today,” Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda said in today’s press release. “As I embark on my inaugural season at DTC, I am especially looking forward to expanding our DTC family with new artists while featuring local talent and our very own Brierley Resident Acting Company.”

“This season marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Dallas Theater Center,” Executive Director Kevin Moriarty added. “Jaime Castañeda brings extraordinary artistic vision, deep curiosity about the world, and a passionate commitment to our North Texas community. We are thrilled to welcome Jaime to Dallas and to begin this next era of artistry together with our audiences, artists, and partners across the city.”

The Season Includes:

• Sept. 11-27: Reykjavik86 by Gabe McKinley. This world premiere is a Cold War thriller that brings the 1986 nuclear summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to life on stage.
• Oct. 9-Nov. 1: The Monsters by Ngozi Anyanwu. Lil is a scrappy young fighter ready to enter the ring in this regional premiere.
• Nov. 27-Dec. 27: A Christmas Carol adapted by Kevin Moriarty. DTC’s annual holiday tradition brings Charles Dickens’ famed story to life of Ebenezer Scrooge’s path to redemption.
• March 26-April 11: Kill Local. Castañeda directs this world premiere by Mat Smart (book) and Liza Anne (music and lyrics).
• May 14-June 6: The Making of a Saint. Writer and director KJ Sanches is searching for something to believe in this world premiere.
• Feb. 5-27: To be announced June 1.

Undermain Reveals Its New Work Grant Recipient

At its Lumination Forward event on March 21, Undermain not only presented the staged reading of Jarrett King’s St. Miles, but also announced the newest recipient of a grant from the Katherine Owens/Undermain Fund for New Work, Erin Malone Turner.

Turner first worked with Undermain in 2022 when a reading of her play Spaced Out was featured in the Whither Goest Thou America Festival of New Play Readings. Since then she has worked with Amphibian Stage, Echo Theatre, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Soul Rep Theatre, and others.