Dallas Theater Center

Founded in 1959, the Dallas Theater Center's mission is to engage, entertain, and inspire its diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living. The company does this by consistently producing high-quality plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that reach the broadest possible constituency. Located in the heart of Dallas’ Arts District in the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, the company aims to serve as a place were all ages, backgrounds, and income levels come together to engage in dialogues inspired by their productions. Dallas Theater Center maintains a 10-member resident company and hires national and regional actors to work side-by-side with these local artists. Since 2007, the company has made a commitment to presenting bold and new interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays each season. Their education programs bring students from some of the most economically, disadvantaged schools to free evening performances and student matinees of their mainstage productions and introduce young people to the magic of live theater.

As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, Dallas Theater Center will present The Tempest as the season’s first production and directed by Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty. This production will be staged in the Potter Rose Performance Hall at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, a flexible space that allows the play to be stage in, around, above, and throughout the audience. Before the production opens, Dallas Theater Center's teaching artists will continue their collaboration with Thom Jones the head of voice and speech at Brown University. Dallas Theater Center’s fully-subsidized Project Discovery program will partner with Title I public high schools in Dallas to provide free tickets and bus transportation. Activities will include pre-performance workshops, study guides, post-performance discussions and a professional development workshop for teachers to provide resources of incorporating Shakespeare into the classroom.