Friday 03.22
Del Shores records standup for DVD release at Rose Room
Del Shores might as well call Dallas home away from home: He was just here directing his play Yellow for Uptown Players, and he’s now back — this time, though, he’s in front of the footlights, performing his newest one-man standup act, Naked. Sordid. Reality. As with his past acts, you can expect Shores to dish about his celebrity encounters, his sex life and his career on shows like Sordid Lives and Queer as Folk. And best of all, you get to be part of posterity: Shores will be recording his performance for a DVD release of the show.
DEETS:
The Rose Room inside Station 4,
3911 Cedar Springs Road.
5 p.m. and 8 p.m. $10–$30. (The first 10 people to email
kristamartinpr@gmail.com, though,
can get free tickets!) DelShores.tix.com.
Sunday 03.24
Cindy Sherman exhibit stuns at DMA
With just herself, a camera and her imagination, Cindy Sherman has revolutionized art photography for 35 years, with pictures in which she is the sole model, makeup artist, decorator and photographer. Like Arbus, she explores the grotesque, often confronting questions of gender identity (John Waters is a huge fan). The massive new exhibit at the DMA, featuring bold, huge portraits (157 in all) — including her entire untitled black and white film stills series, which conjure (without recreating) stereotypical glamour shots of old Hollywood — is a not-to-miss celebration of the modern image.
DEETS: Dallas Museum of Art
1717 Harwood St.
Through June 9. $16 exhibition fee.
DMA.org.
Monday 03.25
DTC Guild presents staged reading of home-grown Pulitzer play ‘Gin Game’
Dallas has produced its share of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights (Beth Henley, Doug Wright) — among them, D.L. Coburn, who was inspired to write The Gin Game after seeing a play at the Kalita starring Tom Troupe. The story now comes full circle, as Troupe and his celebrated wife, the actress Carole Cook, team for a staged reading of the role made indelible by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
for this one-night-only reunion of the former
DTC acting couple.
DEETS:
Kalita Humphreys Theater,
3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. 7 p.m. $10.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition March 22, 2013.