2009/2010 Season

8th Annual New Play Competition
a showcase of literary talent
February 4 - 21, 2010

We've invited seven ALL STAR playwrights to an all out brawl center stage for a chance to win two roundtrip airline tickets and $1,000 cash. Audience members vote for their favorite one-act play each night. On closing night, we tally all the votes and award the cash and prizes. It's an unprecedented night of original works. Let's get ready to rumble. There is sure to be a knock out!

Date Three, Date Four: '83-'84 by Rodney Dobbs
Love, Snakes, and Thriller by Rodman Goode
84 by Jonathon Norton
Waltzing Matilda's by Carol Rice
Back In The Day by Phillip Morales
To The Max by Camika Spencer
The Cosby's:  The Lost Episode by Buster Spiller

*for mature audiences

Bishop Arts Theater Center
215 South Tyler Street
Dallas, TX 75208
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
Reserved Seating (Friday, Saturday evening performances @ 8PM and Sunday matinee performance @ 3PM)
Call the box office at 214-948-0716 for more information
All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
featuring TeCo's T-An-T (Teenagers and Theater) apprenticeship students
April 23 - 25, 2010

In partnership with the Dallas County Juvenile Department and the Volunteer Center of North Texas Truancy program, TeCo's T-An-T apprenticeship students tackle one of the Shakespeare's most complex works with explosive performances. Participants are both featured onstage and run the entire show backstage.

Hamlet, a Danish prince, discovers that his uncle Claudius murdered his father and took the throne; Hamlet's mother has married the usurper.  If life is so fleeting, and people can do such things, Hamlet wonders, why we are born at all? This Shakespearean production is dubbed is often dubbed as the greatest in English language.

Bishop Arts Theater Center
215 South Tyler Street
Dallas, TX 75208
(Friday, Saturday evening performances @ 8PM and Sunday matinee performance @ 3PM)

This show is sponsored in part by the City of Dallas, George and Fay Young Foundation, Eugene McDermott Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities and the Oak Cliff Lions Club.

A Medal for Murder - the world premiere of a modern mystery
by Darryl W.R. Allara & Kenneth Freehill
October 15 - October 25, 2009

It's the day before Veteran's Day, 1968, in Crook River Falls, Minnesota. Undertaker Pearl Paycock awaits the arrival of the town's first casualty of the Vietnam War, and the widow, the escort, the Colonel...and others...but is anyone who they say they are? This Modern Mystery is not a whodunit, but a Comedic Con Game gone gravely awry. There are many twists and turns you won't want to miss!

Bishop Arts Theater Center
215 South Tyler Street
Dallas, TX 75208
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
Reserved Seating (Friday, Saturday evening performances @ 8PM and Sunday matinee performance @ 3PM)
Call the box office at 214-948-0716 for more information
All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

Black Nativity by Langston Hughes
Directed by Cynthia Navarette featuring New Arts Six
December 10 - December 20, 2009

This foot-stomping, toe-tapping, soul-stirring musical is the joyous account of a historic event that happened over 2,000 years ago. In this exciting holiday favorite, New Arts Six, an ensemble made up of classically trained artists, tells the Christmas story like no other production ever has.  Don't miss this one-of-a-kind theatrical wonderment this holiday season.

Bishop Arts Theater Center
215 South Tyler Street, Dallas, TX 75208
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
Reserved Seating (Friday, Saturday evening performances @ 8PM and Sunday matinee performance @ 3PM)
Call the box office at 214-948-0716 for more information
All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

The 2009/2010 season is sponsored by the generosity of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Texas Commission On The Arts, Exelon Power, KKDA, and KRNB