2011/2012 Season

10th Annual New Play Competition, Best Of The Best
a showcase of literary talent
February 17 - March 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m. nightly

Six local playwrights compete for a chance to win $1,000 cash and bragging rights for the entire year. 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.  The finalists are:

The Exit Strategy by Willie Holmes
Untiitled: or How To Trip The Light Fantastic by Phillip John Morales
Everybody's Got A Little Light by Jonathan Norton
The Agnes And The Ecstasy by Paula J. Sanders
Puberty by Laterras R. Whitfield
Purgatory by Seneca Wills

Preview February 16 - ALL SEATS $10

Bishop Arts Theatre Center
215 South Tyler Street
Dallas, TX 75208
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
General Admission Seating (Friday, Saturday evening performances @ 7:30 nightly)
Call the box office at 214-948-0716 for group rates
All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Directed by Willie Minor
April 13 -15, 2012

A romantic comedy of mistaken identities featuring TeCo's T-An-T (Teenagers and Theater) Apprenticeship students.  Partnerships include the Dallas County Juvenile Department and the Volunteer Center of North Texas truancy program.

General Admission Seating
ADMISSION IS FREE

This program is made possible by the Oak Cliff Lions Club, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and the City of Dallas

Teen 10-Minute Playwrights Competition
Dramaturge & Workshop Coordinator, Jonathan Norton
August 9 - 11, 2012, 7:30 nightly

We're inviting six TEEN playwrights to compete for a chance to win $500 cash and a backpack full of supplies.  Audience members will be given ballots to vote for their favorite ten-minute play on each night of the show.  On closing night, we tally the votes and award the winning playwright with the cash and prizes. 

CLICK HERE to download the application and guidelines.  A completed application must accompany submission.

Previews August 8 - ALL SEATS $10

Bishop Arts Theatre Center
215 South Tyler Street
General Admission Seating, 7:30PM Nightly
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
Call the box office at 214-948-0716 for group rates of 15 people or more
All sales final. No refunds or exchanges. 

Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez
Directed by Jonathan Norton
October 14 - 23, 2011

Ana believes that real beauty comes in all shapes and sizes but trying to prove that to her mother and the ladies who work in her sister's sweatshop proves more difficult.  When generational and cultural differences collide, she learns there's value in the new...and the old.

WATCH THE TRAILER
Preview October 13 - ALL SEATS $10

Bishop Arts Theatre Center
215 South Tyler Street
Dallas, TX 75208
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
General Admission Seating (Friday, Saturday evening performances @ 7:30PM 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: A Reason To Celebrate
Adapted Donnie F. Wilson
December 14 - 18, 2011

Co-Directors:
Donnie F. Wilson & LisaAnne Haram

It's a fresh and innovative Adaption by Donnie F. Wilson of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity.  The birth of Jesus Christ is played with the birth of jazz.  It's thunder meeting Lightning.

In each exciting performance, the audience is transported to Bethlehem by way of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz...the home of Mahalia Jackson, Wynton Marsallis and Harry Connick Jr..

This Christmas production is a pure Big Easy Jazz Jubilation.  Get your tickets now and experience the joy.

Preview December 13 - ALL SEATS $10

Bishop Arts Theatre Center
215 South Tyler Street, Dallas, TX 75208
All Seats $15 in advance, $20 at the door (plus service fee)
General Seating, 7:30 p.m. nightly
Call the box office at 214-948-0716 for more information
All sales final. No refunds or exchanges.

The 2011/2012 season is sponsored by the generosity of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Texas Commission On The Arts, Tickets To The City, A+C Magazine, and the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League.