Posts Tagged ‘Stage West’
Best Bette at Stage West
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s “Stage” page features an interview with Morgana Shaw, North Texas actor-singer-choreographer-occasional Bette Davis interpreter. Taking a break from her prolific film and TV career, she stars in Stage West’s...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Russell
Jimmy FowlerThis past Wednesday was the 75th birthday of Jerry Russell, founder and current producing director of Stage West. His theatrical accomplishments are way too numerous to list here, so instead let’s look for the best word to de...
Young Playwrights at Stage West
Jimmy FowlerAs part of its Neighborhood Play Contest, Stage West is offering free basic playwriting classes for kid scribes from grade school to high school age. Interested older folks are invited, too. Class schedule is 10-11:30am Novembe...
Stage West Takes “Steps”
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s ”Stage” page features an interview with Jim Covault, artistic director of Stage West and director of their current comic production Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, which opens tomorrow (Thursday). AH39S is...
Stage West Seeks Visual Artists
Jimmy FowlerFor Stage West’s upcoming 32nd season – which runs from October to September, 2011 – the theater company is seeking visual artists to exhibit their work during the run of each show. Paintings, drawings, prints, photos, an...
Stage West’s Playwriting Festival
Jimmy FowlerThe naked word is celebrated by some of the Fort’s top actors and directors at this weekend’s Texas Playwriting Competition Festival May 28-30. For the third consecutive year, Stage West will produce and host staged reading...
Stage West’s Nuclear Option
Jimmy FowlerThis week’s ”Stage” page offers a review of Michael Frayn’s ultra-cerebral and kinda frosty WWII meditation “Copenhagen,” currently receiving a looong but spirited production at Stage West. As the great nuclear phys...
Attention FW Playwrights
Jimmy FowlerNorth Texas stage scribes have a little more than six weeks left to submit their mind-blowing, redefining-theater-as-we-know-it scripts to Stage West’s Fourth Annual Texas Playwriting Competition. Submissions with entry forms...
A 2010 Stage Sked
Jimmy FowlerFort Worth’s top four small theater groups have announced most of their 2010 schedules by now, and the offerings look unusually scrumptious. I don’t know how much the long national mood of unrest and pessimism has influence...
Stage West Announces Winners
Jimmy FowlerWinners of Stage West’s third annual Texas Playwriting Competition were announced today, and the judges couldn’t pick between two scripts – “Binge” by Waco’s Thomas Ward and “Certificate of Death” by Arlington...