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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

Dione Kennedy, President & CEO of Performing Arts Fort Worth, the group that manages and operates the Bass Performance Hall, joins for a last minute show of support for the Save our Stages Act. SOS could grant funds to help music venues, theatres, and touring houses survive until they can reopen.  -Read SOS and get the latest updates: http://bit.ly/2KBBw12 -For a quick way to contact your representative go to http://bit.ly/37wqH9o and click on the tab TAKE ACTION. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

Whether you're interested in voicing audiobooks, television and film, or writing stories of your own you're going to enjoy the insight 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 Supernatural Academy: Freshman Witch https://amzn.to/2VmuZJz My Zombie BFF https://amzn.to/36lvVoa Mayfly https://amzn.to/2VhgNla --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

East Dallas Arts continues finding new ways to adapt, this time by extending the playing field beyond the stage. Cameras are placed onstage, backstage, and in the lobby.  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 Hays. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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 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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

Teresa Coleman Wash is the Founder/ Executive Artistic Director of the Bishop Arts Theatre Center. Together we talk about racism 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. https://downstagedallas.libsyn.com/website Find links here for BATC's Virtual Summer Camp, E-learning, Girl Trek Black History Bootcamp, and "Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People" by Mahzarin R. Banaji --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

Logan Coley Broker, a.k.a. Miss Eva DeLeon, is the Mary Poppins of drag. While drag shows are on pause Eva is using her spare time to give a break to busy parents and cooped up kids. Watch Books and Breakfast - facebook.com/logan.broker Follow Eva on IG @queenevadeleon Logan's recommendations for virtual drag shows to catch: Twitch.tv/queeroff  Twitch.tv/thebroadswayHTX Facebook.com/LocalQueenMerch --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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.   Tickets at https://buy.ticketstothecity.com/purchase.php?event_id=8564 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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 actor who has performed in multiple productions around DFW, 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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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! https://www.instagram.com/anne_bamm/?hl=en --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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 . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downstagedallas/support

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