DALLAS, August 2, 2016 – Uptown Players closes its 2016 season with the regional premiere of the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Best Off-Broadway Musical, The Toxic Avenger, running August 26 through September 11, 2016 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Featuring a wailing rock score and based on the campy cult classic movie, The Toxic Avenger is by […]
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Uptown Players presents “It’s Only A Play”
DALLAS, June 9, 2016 – Uptown Players continues its 2016 season with the regional premiere of the Terrence McNally 2014-15 Broadway hit, It’s Only a Play, running July 15 – 31, 2016 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. In It’s Only a Play, a wealthy first-time Broadway producer, Julia Budder, is throwing an opening night party for The Golden Egg at her luxurious Manhattan home. […]
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Uptown Players presents “Harbor”
DALLAS, September 9, 2015 – Uptown Players closes its 2015 season with the regional premiere of the sharp and timely new comedy, Harbor by Chad Beguelin. The show runs at the Kalita Humphreys Theater from October 9 through October 26, 2015. In Harbor, Kevin’s seemingly perfect world hits troubled waters in this “wickedly funny” play when his ne’er-do-well sister, Donna […]
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Uptown Players announces 2016 Season Lineup
DALLAS, August 14, 2015 – Uptown Players, a professional theater group located in the Uptown area of Dallas, has announced its 2016 season at the Kalita Humphreys Theater and Dallas City Performance Hall, which will feature the regional premieres of the 2014 Tony Award nominated play, Mothers and Sons, the 2012 West End hit musical, End of the Rainbow, the […]
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Uptown Players presents “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
DALLAS, July 30, 2015 – Uptown Players continues its 2015 season with the 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The show runs at the Kalita Humphreys Theater from August 28 to September 13, 2015. With text by John Cameron Mitchell, music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, Hedwig tells the story of […]
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Uptown Players presents “Catch Me If You Can”
DALLAS, July 10, 2015 – Uptown Players continues its 2015 season with the 2011 Tony nominated musical Catch Me If You Can. Based on the hit film and the incredible true story that inspired it, (Book by Terrence McNally and a swinging score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman), Catch Me If You Can, is the high-flying musical comedy about […]
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Uptown Players Presents “The Nance”
DALLAS, May 14, 2015 – Uptown Players opens its 2015 season with the zany Broadway comedy The Nance, the 2013 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award winning play written by Douglas Carter Beane. The Nance stars B.J. Cleveland in the leading role, which garnered a Tony nomination for Nathan Lane on Broadway. The show runs at the Kalita Humphreys […]
read moreUptown Players presents regional premiere of “The Lyons”
DALLAS, April 15, 2014 – Uptown Players continues its 2014 season with the regional premiere of the Nicky Silver comedy, The Lyons. The production runs May 2 through May 18, 2014, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The Lyons, a dark family comedy about a New York City clan with nothing but bitterness and damage to bind them, completed its Broadway […]
read moreUptown Players presents “Pageant: The Musical”
DALLAS, March 11, 2014 – Uptown Players continues its 2014 season with the return of an audience favorite, the farcical Off‐Broadway hit, Pageant. With book and lyrics by Bill Russell and Frank Kelly and music by Albert Evans, what makes Pageant the musical so different from other beauty contests? Our girls have it all, plus a little “something extra!” The […]
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Uptown Players presents “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”
DALLAS, January 24, 2014 – Uptown Players opens its 2014 season with the zany Broadway comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, winner of the 2013 Tony Award® for Best Play. Written by Christopher Durang and directed by B. J. Cleveland, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike runs at the Kalita Humphreys Theater from February 14 to March […]
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