Theatrically Speaking for January & February 2021

From Stories of the Past to Futuristic Science Fiction, Theaters are Streaming Tales All Over Space and Time

By Nancy Churnin

With the Covid-19 pandemic halting most live performances, Dallas-Fort Worth theaters have gotten creative. We have the top six productions in the area for your consideration. Dallas Theater Center is planning an outdoor show with locations to be announced, while other companies are focusing on streamed shows that will whisk audiences away to a Fiddler on the Roof era shtetl, a fancy Manhattan boarding school, outer space, and more.

Something Grim(m)
Devised by Tiffany Nichole Greene with members of the Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center
This unique performance art production will encompass visual art, interaction, and an audio soundtrack in an outdoor setting.

Where:    Location to be determined
When:     February 12-21
Cost:        $35, subject to change
Web:        www.dallastheatercenter.org

STREAMING ON YOUR TV,
COMPUTER, TABLET OR PHONE
** Be sure to check with each theatre before you attend or stream; prices are subject to change.

Do No Harm
By Anyika McMillan-Herod
Soul Rep Theatre continues its 25th season with the streaming of a filmed world premiere historical drama commissioned by Dr. Evelyn Parker at Southern Methodist University and the Association of Practical Theology about three enslaved women who were experimented on without anesthesia by Dr. J. Marion Sims, credited as the father of modern gynecology. The play was filmed in an actual slave cabin at Dallas Heritage Village and was scheduled to be performed at APT’s international conference in Houston last year, but was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Where:   Your Computer, Tablet, or Smartphone
When:    Streaming, Monday Jan. 11 – Sunday, January 31
Cost:       $14
Web:       www.soulrep.org

Things Missing/Missed
By Justin Locklear, Melissa Flower, and Philip Hay
Undermain Theatre offers a co-production with the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group about a couple battling the gaps in their memories, home, and relationship in a production filled with surreal stagecraft.

Where:    Your Computer, Tablet, or Smartphone
When:     Streaming, Wednesday, January 13 – Sunday, January 31
Cost:        $15
Web:        https://undermain.secure.force.com/ticket#/

Application Pending
By Greg Edwards and Andy Sanberg
Uptown Players turns the spotlight on popular local actor B.J. Cleveland, who stars as Chris Evans, a kindergarten assistant at an elite Manhattan private school, and all the people he has to deal with in this funny and touching one-person show.

Where:   Your Computer, Tablet, or Smartphone
When:    Streaming, Friday, January 29 – Sunday, February 7
Cost:      $20–$30
Web:     uptownplayers.org

Before Fiddler
By Hershey Felder
Dallas Summer Musicals presents Hershey Felder, famed for his Irving Berlin show, in a world premiere one-person show about Sholem Aleichem, the writer whose stories would become world-famous in a Tony Award-winning musical adaptation called Fiddler on the Roof, and the music associated with Aleichem and Eastern European Jews: Klezmer.

Where:    Your Computer, Tablet, or Smartphone
When:      Streaming, Sunday, February 7
Cost:         $55
Web:         dallassummermusicals.com

Last Ship to Proxima Centauri
By Greg Lam
Kitchen Dog Theater zooms audiences to outer space with this world premiere science fiction comedy about the last escape ship from uninhabitable earth to a planet full of people that are not happy to see them.

Where:    Your Computer, Tablet, or Smartphone
When:      Streaming, February/March — dates to be determined
Cost:         $15 and up
Web:         kitchendogtheater.org