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Imani Thomas
For its first live performance in more than a year, the Dallas Theater Center wants to make sure its VIP audience gets the best seats. The doors will open a full hour before performances of
Working: A Musical for essential workers to find their ideal spot on the lawn at the Annette Strauss Square in the AT&T Performing Arts Center in the Dallas Arts District. The musical based on Studs Terkel’s bestselling book runs July 7-18.
Featuring original songs by Stephen Schwartz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Taylor and others, the musical chronicles the working lives of average Americans, including teachers, waiters, and truck drivers. It is the story of the essential workers who are too often taken for granted.
Something Grim(m).
NBC DFW: Why are Grimm fairy tales a good literary basis for this theatrical event?
Tiffany Nichole Greene: Grimm fairy tales peep into humanity’s darkest corners and expose the sides of us we try to hide or present doesn’t exist. Few are bold enough to go there the way the Grimms do. The lessons they teach are rarely attacked from such an angle. Most people don’t want to admit how horrible we can be to one another. But we can’t change something we’re not willing to admit exists.
NBC DFW: Part of the magic of theater is a live audience engaging with live actors in the same room. How do you make this feel like a piece of theater when the audience is not in a theater and the actors are filmed?
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“Something Grimm,” an immersive theatrical experience, opens at Dallas Theater Center Feb. 20. The original production created by Director Tiffany Nichole Greene was devised with the Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company.
Grimm’s fairy tales inspired the creative journey that winds around the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. Guests will take a self-guided tour through various locations, starting in the Lexus Silver parking garage. From there, the story unfolds in several segments, each step along the path revealing a new chapter. The production will include comic strips and pop-up story books, as well as pre-recorded video and audio elements. Characters include a gardener, a maid, a cook, a farmer, and a very special child on an exploration of power and privilege and a journey back home.
Updated on December 11, 2020 at 4:44 pm
Imani Thomas
It’s beginning to look a lot like a pandemic Christmas at the Dallas Theater Center. The Tony Award-winning theater reimagined its traditionally spectacular production of “A Christmas Carol” into a simple, heartfelt filmed theatrical piece,
In the Bleak Midwinter: A Christmas Carol for Our Time, now available to view via the theater’s website.
Dallas Theater Center closed for in-person performances in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The theater spent months working with artistic unions and health officials to develop health and safety protocols so this holiday tradition could continue.
Imani Thomas