Downstage Dallas

Meet Patrick Emile, the Dallas-based Host and Creator of The Writer Wrong Podcast. Writer Wrong is a fiction series of audio plays, performed by local actors, in which the audience gets to choose how each story progresses. Listen, give to their season two kickstarter, and become a patreon at writerwrongpodcast.com Patrick Emile is a Dallas-based composer, producer, writer, and visual artist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre, a participant of the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and a proud member of BMI. He was a 2014 composer for the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Studio in New York. Past work includes scoring and arranging for Happily Ever After, an official selection of the New York International Fringe Festival 2011, as well as Starfield, a collaborative large-scale visual musical installation commissioned by The Dallas Arts District and unveiled by the Mayor of Dallas. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/downstagedallas/support

Welcome back to the podcast Mrs. Brooke Potts. Brooke is a theatre educator and enneagram enthusiast. I hope you'll stick around for the full episode, but if you're only here for your number (I won't judge) here you go. But you really should stay :) Type 8- 07:58 Type 9- 12:20 Type 1- 16:05 Type 2- 20:56 Type 3-25:00 Type 4- 31:02 Type 5- 36:24 Type 6- 42:18 Type 7- 46:30 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/downstagedallas/support

Pegasus Theatre is taking its next signature black and white show on screen, and that's not the only new medium. They have their own board game now too.  Stream A Pegasus Smorgasbord  http://bit.ly/38LHWmN Stream A Trifle Dead The Movie http://bit.ly/3aVcftO Purchase Curtains https://bit.ly/3aXDV1k Play online http://bit.ly/3rJrsUX

The Save Our Stages Act is a bill that could grant funds to help music venues, including theatres and touring houses, survive until they can reopen.   At the time of publish we expect news of S.O.S. at any moment.  Congress is scheduled to break for the holidays on Friday, December 18th, but it's probable that they're going to work into the weekend.   This could be a lifeline for many of the theatres and venues around DFW including the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.  Dione Kennedy is the President and CEO of Performing Arts Fort Worth, the group that manages and operates the Bass Hall.  She joins Downstage for an emergency discussion to ask for a last minute show of support.  Read SOS and get the latest updates: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4258 For the quickest way to contact your representative go to https://www.saveourstages.com/ and click on the tab TAKE ACTION.  For a more personalized message find and contact your members of congress at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members

Whether you're interested in voicing audiobooks, television and film, or writing stories of your own you're going to enjoy the insight in this episode from audiobook narrator and voiceover actor Kasi Hollowell.  Links from this episode: Audio Creative Exchange https://www.acx.com/ Check out Kasi's work:  Royal Fae Guardians https://amzn.to/3mfGz5c Senior Witch, Spring Semester: Supernatural Academy https://amzn.to/36o5YEx Junior Witch: Supernatural Academy https://amzn.to/2VfDfv5 Sophomore Witch: Supernatural Academy https://amzn.to/36idIYh Supernatural Academy: Freshman Witch https://amzn.to/2VmuZJz My Zombie BFF https://amzn.to/36lvVoa Mayfly https://amzn.to/2VhgNla

First they literally boxed in the actors. Now they're all over the theatre. East Dallas Arts continues finding new ways to adapt, this time by extending the playing field beyond the stage.  Cameras are placed on stage, backstage, and in the lobby.  Actors move throughout the space, even to the front parking lot.  The multicamera production livestreamed for its premiere weekend, and is available to watch on demand beginning October 23rd.  Purchase tickets at https://eastdallasarts.org/  The show is an original adaptation of the film Night of the Living Dead, written by Kristin and Tom Parr, directed by Jeremy Landon Hayes.      

Physical distancing doesn't quite describe what's happening on stage at East Dallas Arts.  The actors are close in proximity on stage, but well separated, each in their own plexiglass case.  In this episode we're hearing from Artistic Director, Tom Parr.  Tom explains why the idea is perfect for their current production of Spring Awakening, but the boxes aren't going away after this show.  There is plenty more to come.  Spring Awakening is streaming September 18th-27th.  Get your tickets at https://eastdallasarts.org/  

Audition prep pro Rebecca Lowrey is back at it again.  In 2019 she created the #21DayChallenge.  One year later she is taking the fourth round of brave participants through the three week journey to challenge and encourage each other.   Two Downstage Dallas fans have the chance to join the challenge FOR FREE!  Follow @downstagedallas on IG for more. 

Lone Star is a show set in small town Texas. Two brothers, one just back from the Vietnam War, are reconnecting over a cooler of Lone Star beer.  What better way to watch this show than under a Texas sunset, with a Lone Star in hand.   Lone Star is playing July 11-19, at the Magnolia Lounge in Dallas' Fair Park, outside of the Margot Jones Theatre.   Purchase tickets at https://www.theclassicstheatreproject.com/

Teresa Coleman Wash is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Bishop Arts Theatre Center in Dallas.  Together we're talking about racism in America and the tension that's at a boiling point.  We talk about how theatre plays a part, and how we can push ourselves in the theatre to be better. And we cannot forget about the current and upcoming programming that BATC is executing to continue their mission in this socially distant COVID-19 era.    BATC Virtual Summer Camp https://bit.ly/2C5PLHh BATC E-learning https://bit.ly/30DF09b Girl Trek Black History Bootcamp: https://www.girltrek.org/blackhistorybootcamp Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji https://amzn.to/2ztgoVu              

I’m talking with my friend Logan Coley Broker, a.k.a. Miss Eva  DeLeon.  I’m dubbing Eva the Mary Poppins of drag.  We all know that nearly all live and in-person theatre, concerts, and other performing arts are on pause indefinitely right now. That includes drag shows.  So recently Logan has been taking Eva’s talent online to give busy parents and cooped up kids something fun to do.  Keep up with Logan on Facebook to catch the next Books and Breakfast - facebook.com/logan.broker Follow Eva on IG @queenevadeleon   Logan's recommendations for virtual drag shows to catch: Twitch.tv/queeroff  - live Wednesday evenings  Twitch.tv/thebroadswayHTX - live Monday evenings Facebook.com/LocalQueenMerch 

During these uncertain times of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Hopeful Theatre Project is continuing their mission to spread hope.  They're asking artists to share a song that makes them hopeful.  They can sing it, dance to it, or whatever way they express their artistic talent. They're sharing the submissions with the goal to raise money for the Actors Fund. Send submissions to jessica@thehopefultheatreproject.com In this episode we also talk about what's on the horizon for the Hopeful Theatre Project. 

Theatres everywhere in the country are forced closed right now due to the Coronavirus precautions in place.   The Classics Theatre Project is able to continue on in a way that most others can't. You can purchase tickets now to their upcoming production of The Imaginary Invalid, and with that ticket you'll have the opportunity to watch in person, or stream live online.   Find tickets here.

Two playwrights walk into a newsroom... It's not the beginning of a joke, it's the start of two years of research that became "Playwrights in the Newsroom", written by Janielle Kastner and Brigham Mosley, premiering March 5-15, as part of ATTPAC's Elevator Project.  Tickets at https://www.attpac.org/on-sale/2020/playwrights-in-the-newsroom/   Odd News by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Brandon Michael Nase will end his run as Old Deuteronomy on January 5th, 2020.  In this episode we look back at his tenure in one of the most famous musicals of all time. Brandon gets on a soapbox about phones in the audience.  He tells us that he knew nothing about the show when he was cast as one of the lead felines.  We hear some of Ol Deut's backstage riffs.  And we get a taste of Brandon's passion project, The Gospel According to Broadway.  Find the full series at http://brandonmichaelnase.com/gatb

Another year is coming to a close.  It's time to think about what we want in 2020.  Jonah Munroe knows what he wants in the new year.  Jonah is a local DFW actor who has performed with Tarrant Actors Regional Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Pegasus Theatre, Stolen Shakespeare Guild, and more, most recently in A Chorus Line at Mainstage Irving.  In this episode he talks about his new year resolutions for himself, and for the DFW theatre scene as a whole.    Special thanks to Gracepoint Media for the studio space where we recorded this episode.  Find them at gracepoint.media

Legally Blonde is one of my favorite shows, and the star and director at the forefront of this production are two of my favorite people.  Listen to my chat with Lon Barrera and Brooke Potts.  The show runs through October 13.  Get tickets here. https://www.prekindle.com/events/grandprairieartscounciluptowntheater

Annie Wallace is currently on tour with Disney's Aladdin the Musical.  She's in the ensemble, one of Princess Jasmine's attendants, and an understudy for Jasmine.  Follow Annie's tour life on the Intsta!

The Hopeful Theatre Project has a mission to give back to their community, and they're not wasting any time.  In just their first year they're already on to the second big project, and with a full calendar beyond that.  Find out what they have coming up next at hopefultheatreproject.com .