{"id":371658,"date":"2026-07-13T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371658\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:42:08","slug":"echo-theatre-to-host-free-reading-of-we-have-no-cats-kathleen-on-july-14-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371658\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo Theatre to host free reading of &#8220;We Have No Cats Kathleen!&#8221; on July 14-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Echo-Reads-July.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127059\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Echo-Reads-July.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"963\" height=\"1284\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-127059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the Bath House Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>Echo Theatre is hosting a free staged reading of We Have No Cats Kathleen! by Hadley Shipley on Tuesday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bath House Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>The play follows Diane, a self-proclaimed \u201csmart business woman,\u201d whose online cat fights, personal attacks and wine-fueled defenses begin to unravel her life. As she spirals, her staff finds themselves caught between their mission to help the cats and a reality they can no longer ignore.<\/p>\n<p>After the reading, the audience is invited to stay to discuss the play with the actors, director and Echo creatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reading, part of the Echo Reads Salon Series, is produced by Hadley Shipley and Liz Ware and offers audiences the opportunity to experience new works in a staged reading format.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free, though attendees are encouraged to let Echo Theatre know they plan to attend in advance. There is also a performance scheduled on Wednesday at <a href=\"https:\/\/lakewood.advocatemag.com\/whiskers-and-soda-third-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whiskers and Soda<\/a>, but registration has closed for that event. For more information or to RSVP, visit Echo Theatre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echotheatre.org\/boxoffice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of the Bath House Cultural Center. Echo Theatre is hosting a free staged reading of We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-371658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}