Dallas / Fort Worth Area Theater

Dallas Theater Companies

• Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
  What was once a small brick church is now a performance space with a bar at the back of the audience - a good place for a night out.
• Dallas Children's Theatre
  Theater for children and teens at the Rosewood Center.
• The Dallas Opera
  Theater, yes? The original "musical" theater.
• Dallas Summer Musicals
  Dallas Summer Musicals started in 1941 with Opera Under the Stars in Fair Park's Band Shell. DSM both produces musicals and brings touring Broadway musicals to Dallas.
• The Dallas Theater Center
  The BIG theater in Dallas. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. DTC also presents at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theat
• Echo Theatre
  Works by women at the Bath House. Recently produced a season by and about Aphra Behn, the first women to work under her own name as a playwright in the English language.
• Kitchen Dog Theater
  Resident company at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, know for classic, edgy, and new works.
• Pocket Sandwich Theatre
  Dinner-ish theater - an institution!
• Second Thought Theatre
  Founded in 2003 - mostly by Baylor grads. They now perform next-door to Frank Lloyd Wright's original Theater Center theater.
• Shakespeare Dallas
  Dallas' summer Shakespeare festival, making their home at Samuel Grand Park and touring their fall show to Addison.
• SMU Meadows School of the Arts
  The respected theater program at Southern Methodist University puts on student theater and dance performances... ----- And this might be a good time to shout out to Brookhaven College, TCU, UT Dallas, University of Dallas, UNT, Collin County Communit
• Teatro Dallas
  Latino theater of many backgrounds.
• Theatre Three
  Founded in 1961 in Uptown, just north of downtown Dallas. They perform in two spaces: the Theatre Three main space upstairs and the smaller Theatre Too downstairs.
• Undermain Theatre
  Literally underground at Main St. in Deep Ellum and occasionally at the new City Performance Hall in the Arts District. Highly artistic work.
• Uptown Players
  Uptown Players was founded in 2001 to provide quality theatre to the Uptown and Oak Lawn communities. In 2010 they moved to the historic Kalita Humphreys theater.
• Wingspan Theatre Company
  A small company with a bigger reputation. Women's and intellectual plays like Edward Albee's at the Bath House.

Fort Worth Theater Companies - (Incomplete list - more coming)

• Amphibian Productions
  Amphibian Stage Productions strives for innovative and engaging works of theatre that challenge the way we see the world around us.
• Casa Manana
  Housed in a large silver geodesic dome, this theater stages or imports musicals and other shows, and has a large children's program.
• Circle Theatre
  An intimate theater that does excellent work actually under downtown's Sundance Square.
• Fort Worth Opera
  Opera!
• Jubilee Theatre
  A downtown theater that creates and presents theatrical works which reflect the African-American experience.
• Hip Pocket Theatre
  An outdoor theater famous for creating one-of-a-kind productions mixing live theater and puppets and all sorts of wonderful things.
• Kids Who Care
  Theater school.
• Stage West
  31 years of professional theater.
• Texas Christian University - Department of Theater
  Noted Fort Worth university theater program. Home stage of Trinity Shakespeare Festival.
• Trinity Shakespeare Festival
  Excellent summer Shakespeare... in air conditioning!

Mid-Cities and Suburban Companies

• Creative Arts Theatre & School (CATS)
  Arlington, TX theater and (mostly) a school.
• Fun House Theater and Film
  This is a TERRIFIC children's stage and video program, run by really talented folks. Their recent all-kid version of Hamlet was a smash hit - winning amazing reviews from serious grown-up theater critics. The recent Mamet-inspired play called The Da
• Lyric Stage
  Irving, TX. Lyric Stage is Dallas County's only locally produced, professional musical theater company - well known (even outside the region) for staging new and reviving worthy historic musicals. Its reputation just keeps growing...
• WaterTower Theatre
  Addison, TX. Largest and most accomplished of the suburban theaters (rivaling the DTC), in an innovative theater designed by architect Corky Cunningham at the Addison Theatre Centre complex.

• Denton Community Theatre
  Denton, TX
• Flowermound Performing Arts Center
  Flowermound, TX-
• Garland Civic Theatre
  GARLAND - My hometown community theater group.
• Irving Community Theatre
  IRVING - Great facility and wins lots of awards.
• Mesquite Community Theatre
  Mesquite, TX - in the Black Box Theater in the Mesquite Arts Center (MAC).
• Onstage in Bedford
  Bedford, TX
• Rockwall Community Playhouse
  Rockwall, TX
• Runway Theatre
  Grapevine, TX

DFW Area Performance Spaces

• Addison Theatre Centre
  ADDISON - The City art complex includes a theater building designed by architect Corky Cunningham with a main stage and a small black box venue, plus the Stone Cottage, as well as convention facilities, all across the street from a park developed to
• The Bath House Cultural Center
  DALLAS - This Art Deco bath house for White Rock Lake park has been converted into an art gallery, a small museum, and a performance space.
• City Performance Hall
  DALLAS - This Arts District facility is scheduled to open in 2012. Designed by the iconic American architectural firm SOM (Skidmore Owings Merrill), it will include a 750-seat hall suitable for music, dance, and theater.
• Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs - Facilities
  DALLAS - A listing of city-owned performance (and other arts) facilities.
• Dallas Arts District Venues
  All of the performance venues in the Dallas Arts District... almost. The brand new Third Venue - a 700+ seat multi-use performance center - seems to be missing.
• The Dee and Charles Wyly Theater
  DALLAS - Part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Wyly is the new home of the Dallas Theater Center and one of the newest additions to Dallas's Arts District. It was designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas, replacing an earlier tempo
• Fair Park Music Hall
  DALLAS - The 3,420 seat Music Hall is the largest enclosed performing arts venue in Dallas (not counting the American Airlines []). It was designed by Dallas architects Lang & Witchell in 1925, then expanded by Jarvis Putty Jarvis in 1972. Home o
• The Kalita Humphreys Theater
  DALLAS - Built in 1959 - designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as home for the Dallas Theater Center, this space is still used by that group, although their primary home is now the Wylie Theater. The resident company at the Kalita Humphreys is now Uptown Pl
• The Majestic Theatre
  DALLAS - This 1920 film theater was refurbished and reopened in 1983. It is owned by the City of Dallas and is presently managed by Dallas Summer Musicals.
• Samuel Grand Park
  DALLAS - The outdoor stage is home to Dallas Shakespeare.
• Irving Arts Center
  The Irving Arts Center has the 710 seat Carpenter Performance Hall (home of Lyric Stage) and the 250 seat Dupree Theater (home of Irving Community Theatre) and a Rehearsal Hall.
• KD Studios Theater
  DALLAS - 120 seat theater at KD Studio Actors Conservatory. (Former home of Uptown Players.)
• The Rosewood Center
  DALLAS - Home of the Dallas Children's Theatre
• Bass Hall
  FORT WORTH - a grand opera-style house in downtown, with largely traveling productions.

• The Dallas News
  The leading Dallas newspaper.
• The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  Fort Worth's leading paper.
• Theater Jones
  DFW's internet theater "magazine"
• The Column
  On-line theater community with reviews (including non-Equity shows), annual awards, and a virtual newsletter full of audition listings and jobs, Broadway buzz, and local theatrical news. The site is here, but it's the Column e-newsletter you NEED - s
• criticalrant.com Alexandra Bonifield
  An independent web based reviewer
• The Dallas Voice
  Reviews from Dallas' GLBT community.
• The Dallas Observer
  Reviews from the paper with the naughty ads.

• Live Theatre League of Tarrant County
  The association for theaters in Fort Worth and the county around it.
• DFW Stage Designers' Circle
  An association of DFW stage designers.
• Gifts for Theater Folk
  Opening Night presents?

• Dallas Theater.com
  More information on touring shows and concerts, as well as on DFW's largest venues.