{"id":152607,"date":"2026-02-05T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/152607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:20:16","slug":"stage-notes-dallas-actor-wins-del-shores-writers-search-broadwayworld-coms-area-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/152607\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Notes: Dallas actor wins Del Shores Writers Search; BroadwayWorld.com’s area award recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage Notes<\/a>\u00a0is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music, dance, comedy and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information.<\/p>\n

Stage Notes Calendar\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opening this week: <\/p>\n

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Fort Worth Opera: Cowboys & Culture, 6:30 p.m. today at Kimbell Art Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Onstage in Bedford: Greater Tuna, today-Feb. 22<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TITAS\/Dance Unbound: Flamenco Vivo by Carlota Santana, Friday and Saturday at Moody Performance Hall<\/a>, pictured.<\/p>\n

DSO Pops: How to Train Your Dragon \u2013 In Concert, Friday-Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Elevator Project: Remember Me by Sam Cormier, Friday-Sunday in the Wyly Studio Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Opera: The Little Prince, Friday-Feb. 14<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Theatre Coppell: The Fantasticks, Friday-Feb. 22<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Lewisville Playhouse: Ordinary People, Friday-Feb. 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stolen Shakespeare Guild: Sense and Sensibility, Friday-Feb. 22<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teatro Dallas: 22nd International Theatre Festival: Spectrum by ASTA \u2013 Teatro e Outra Artes (Portugal), 6 p.m. Saturday at the Latino Cultural Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n

McKinney Philharmonic Orchestra: \u201970s and \u201980s Rock and Pop Hits, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, McKinney Boyd HS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mesquite Symphony Orchestra: Trial & Tribulation, 7 p.m. Saturday at Mesquite Arts Center<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Las Colinas Symphony: Michelle Campos, harpist, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Irving Arts Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Orpheus Chamber Singers: For Better or For Worse, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Lovers Lane UMC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richardson Symphony Orchestra, The Legends of Country, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Eisemann<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lewisville Grand Theater: Texas Tunes with Jazzmeia Horn, 8 p.m. Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Art Centre Theatre: The Vagina Monologues, Saturday-Feb. 21<\/a>. <\/p>\n

St.Olaf Choir, 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Meyerson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cliburn: Counterpoint: Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher, 8 p.m. Tuesday at Tannahill\u2019s Tavern and Music Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Broadway at the Bass: Six, Tuesday-Feb. 15<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyric Stage: Dallas Divas, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Moody Performance Hall.<\/a><\/p>\n

Amphibian Stage: Bull in a China Shop, Wednesday-March 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Onstage now:<\/p>\n

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Stomping Ground Comedy:\u00a0The Last Five Years, through Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allen Contemporary Theatre:\u00a0Men on Boats, through Sunday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas Theater Center:\u00a0Fat Ham, through Sunday at the Kalita Humphreys Theater<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WaterTower Theatre,\u00a0The Graduate, through Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Circle Theatre:\u00a0A Night with Janis Joplin, through Feb. 14<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pocket Sandwich Theatre:\u00a0The Final Adventure of Hercules \u2013 The Melodrama, through Feb. 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Core Theatre:\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird, through Feb. 15<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Firehouse Theatre:\u00a0Ring of Fire, through Feb. 15<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Garland Civic Theatre:\u00a0Curtains, through Feb. 15<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stage West:\u00a0Where We Stand, through Feb. 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reid Cabaret Theatre:\u00a0Aretha: The Queen of Soul, through Feb. 22 at Casa Manana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Theatre Three:\u00a0Deer, through Feb. 22 in Theatre Too<\/a>, pictured.<\/p>\n

Jubilee Theatre:\u00a0Hype Man: A Break Beat Play, through Feb. 28<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BREAKING: Ashley White departs Circle Theatre<\/p>\n

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In a Facebook post earlier this Thursday afternoon, Circle Theatre\u2019s Ashley White, who served as the company\u2019s artistic director, announced her departure from the Fort Worth theater. <\/p>\n

From White\u2019s post:<\/p>\n

Effective today I am no longer affiliated with Circle Theatre. I wish the staff, its productions, and its production teams nothing but the absolute best moving forward.<\/p>\n

My entire life, I have dedicated myself to telling stories through this beautiful art form that not only spark imagination and conversation, but provide spaces in which artists can thrive. I have fought hard for it, and I have thrown my soul into it.<\/p>\n

It appears in this season of life, I have lost my way in that endeavor.<\/p>\n

I am reflecting upon this all very intently, and hope nothing but the best for DFW arts community and everyone within it.<\/p>\n

As I navigate this very hard transition, and consider what a future in theater may or may not mean for me, I want to thank everyone for their support through the years. Each moment of creation has left an indelible mark on my soul and my journey.<\/p>\n

Del Shores Foundation fourth annual Writers Search announces winners<\/p>\n

\"\"Jameson L. Black (Photo: Jordan Fraker)<\/p>\n

The Del Shores Foundation concluded its annual Writers Search which awards budding writers in categories of play, screenplay and web series\/short. DSF\u2019s Del Shores and Program Director Emerson Collins announced this year\u2019s recipients who all recieved a cash prize along with their award. Among the trio of winners was one Dallas stage actor.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s recipients included Eric Gustafson with Do You Take This\u2026? for Best Short\/Web Series with a $1,000 prize; Robbie Robertson with The Invalid for Best Screenplay with a $3,000 prize and the Best Play award went to Dallas actor and playwright Jameson L. Black for ANIMALS \u2013or\u2013 We Just Want Love\u2026 with a cash prize of $3,000.<\/p>\n

Black (they\/he) is a Dallas-based actor and playwright who is a senior at SMU getting their B.F.A. in Acting, and who has an Associates Degree from Tyler Junior College. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have a student winning Best Play,\u201d Del Shores said in the announcement video posted on Monday. \u201cI love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black told Shores and Collins that the inspiration for their work comes from growing up in a rural Texas. <\/p>\n

They explained. \u201cA lot of what influences that is how and where I grew up and the stigmas behind these kind of relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the show, Matty and Dion are high school best friends in a small Texan town in 2008. Matty\u2019s abusive home life keeps him at Dion\u2019s family\u2019s trailer-home, despite Dion\u2019s mother expressing disdain for the boy. Dion\u2019s status as the star pitcher for the baseball team makes him much more popular than Matty, who is known as the \u201cgay outsider.\u201d Despite this, they discover feelings for each other, but must keep their secret hidden. Dion and his mother, who suffers from addiction, struggle with the recent loss of his sister, Sadie, and his father in a car accident that has mysterious circumstances surrounding it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI write what I know and I know every bit of this play in some form or another,\u201d Black said. <\/p>\n

Black began their playwriting journey at Tyler Junior College. Today, while also a student at SMU, he works at Theatre Three. <\/p>\n

As part of the contest, Black will get support in having the play produced.<\/p>\n

Collins added, \u201cOne of our big things is that we have a play production grant of $10,000 that we give to theater partners of the Del Shores Foundation that will produce the world premiere of Jameson\u2019s play. We can\u2019t wait to do our part to help continue to support it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Collins and Shores\u2019 chat with Black and the other recipients below:<\/p>\n

\"YouTube<\/p>\n

Auriga Productions to present the world premiere of The Last Testament of Rudolf Hess<\/p>\n

Auriga Productions has announced its world premiere of playwright Dennis Richard\u2019s The Last Testament of Rudolf Hess. The show will perform in both Dallas and Fort Worth. Directed by Auriga Artistic Director Bert Pigg, the story centers on Hess\u2019 life in prison as a Nazi war criminal.<\/p>\n

The DFW run is in Dallas February 19, 20, 21, and 22 and Fort Worth March 6, 8, 13 and 14.<\/p>\n

Richard said of the play, \u201cKnown as Spandau\u2019s Prisoner No 7, Hess was the last remaining Nazi war criminal and considered to be the most puzzling man of World War II. Since his death, conspiracy theories have abounded on many fronts, including such controversial topics as the motivations behind his unauthorized May 10, 1941 solo flight for peace, whether the man in Spandau prison was the real Rudolf Hess or an imposter, and whether Hess committed suicide or was murdered. I am honored to be working with Bert on the World Premiere of my play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dallas run is from Feb. 19-22 at Artstillery<\/a> and Fort Worth performances will be March 6-14 at Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center for the Arts<\/a>. Talkbacks will be held after each performance.<\/p>\n

BroadwayWorld.com Regional Awards announced<\/p>\n

\"\"Hopeful Theatre\u2019s The Little Mermaid was named a BroadwayWorld.com regional award winner. (Courtesy photo)<\/p>\n

The 2025 BroadwayWorld.com Regional Awards were announced in January. The awards honor area productions, touring shows and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025. This year the BroadwayWorld Regional Awards included more 100 cities across America, Canada, Central and South America, Europe and Asia making this its largest awards yet.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of the 2025 BroadwayWorld Dallas Award winners<\/p>\n

Best New Play Or Musical
Amityville \u201974 \u2013 Upright Theatre Co.<\/p>\n

Best Performer In A Musical
Jojo Garcia \u2013 My Hero \u2013 CATS Playhouse<\/p>\n

Best Performer In A Play
Kevin Forman \u2013 Twelve Angry Jurors \u2013 North Texas Performing Arts<\/p>\n

Best Play
Twelve Angry Jurors \u2013 North Texas Performing Arts<\/p>\n

Best Scenic Design Of A Play Or Musical
Chris Davis \u2013 A Talent for Murder \u2013 CATS Playhouse<\/p>\n

Best Sound Design Of A Play Or Musical
Allan Branson \u2013 Cats \u2013 Casa Ma\u00f1ana Theatre<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Performer In A Musical
Elyse Kuss \u2013 My Hero \u2013 CATS Playhouse<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Performer In A Play
Ed Kless \u2013 Twelve Angry Jurors \u2013 North Texas Performing Arts<\/p>\n

Best Theatre For Young Audiences Production
The Little Mermaid \u2013 The Hopeful Theatre Project<\/p>\n

Favorite Local Theatre
North Texas Performing Arts<\/p>\n

Best Cabaret\/Concert\/Solo Performance
Meagan Harris \u2013 Lux: A Solo Show \u2013 Manifesto Poetica<\/p>\n

Best Choreography Of A Play Or Musical
Edward Funderburke \u2013 Something Rotten! \u2013 Lubbock Moonlight Musicals<\/p>\n

Best Costume Design Of A Play Or Musical
DeZhan\u00e9 Jackson \u2013 Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019 \u2013 Circle Theatre<\/p>\n

Best Dance Production
Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019 \u2013 Circle Theatre<\/p>\n

Best Direction Of A Musical
Jake Morgan \u2013 Something Rotten! \u2013 Lubbock Moonlight Musicals<\/p>\n

Best Direction Of A Play
Austin Keefer \u2013 Twelve Angry Jurors \u2013 North Texas Performing Arts<\/p>\n

Best Ensemble
Big Fish \u2013 Texas Music Theatre Company<\/p>\n

Best Lighting Design Of A Play Or Musical
Grace Harmon \u2013 Big Fish \u2013 Texas Music Theatre Company<\/p>\n

Best Music Direction & Orchestra Performance
Rob Rogers \u2013 Something Rotten! \u2013 Lubbock Moonlight Musicals<\/p>\n

Best Musical
Big Fish \u2013 Texas Music Theatre Company<\/p>\n

Arts groups named among State Fair of Texas\u2019 $654,000 award to South Dallas nonprofits<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo courtesy State Fair of Texas<\/p>\n

The State Fair of Texas announced this week that in 2025, 145 organizations serving the South Dallas\/Fair Park area received more than $654,000 in program funding through community grants and sponsorships. Applicants were selected according to their alignment with the Fair\u2019s focus on serving its neighboring zip codes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Community Giving Program continues to make a meaningful impact in the South Dallas Fair Park area, made possible from the support of our loyal fairgoers who attend our largest annual community program and fundraiser \u2014 the State Fair of Texas,\u201d Mitchell Glieber, State Fair of Texas President said in Wednesday\u2019s press release. \u201cThe success of our 24-day event allows us to support other nonprofit organizations in the region to contribute to the common goal of giving back to our fellow Texans through funding, programming, and other resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 145 recipients included area arts groups such as Beckles Dancing Company (Argo Nova Dance), Cara M\u00eda Theatre Co., Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Teatro Dallas. See the full list here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nonprofits serving the South Dallas community can apply now for the Community Giving Program 2026 grant at BigTex.com\/Grants. The deadline for 2026 grant applications is Sunday, March 15, at 5 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n

\u2013Rich Lopez<\/p>\n

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