Dallas Theater Center

Dallas, Texas

Dallas Theater Center serves more than 90,000 patrons from across North Texas every season. Founded in 1959, the theater'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. Dallas Theater Center produces plays from across the theatrical canon, from new plays to classics and musicals to contemporary dramas. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty, the theater is focused on engaging all Dallas-area audiences in a dialogue that is sparked by transformative and provocative theater.

As part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, Dallas Theater Center will produce A Midsummer Night's Dream as the inaugural production in the new Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the Dallas Center for Performing Arts. Students from more than 50 area middle and high schools will attend evening and student-matinee performances at little or no cost. Students will come from Dallas itself and the surrounding metropolitan area, as well as from rural schools within driving distance. Title I schools will receive free tickets and buses to evening performances, plus pre-show audience conversations. Pre-show workshops will be led by Dallas Theater Center's teaching artists and will include members of the cast. In addition, teachers will be invited to a professional development workshop that provides important resources to incorporate Shakespeare into their classroom. Before A Midsummer Night's Dream opens, the theater's teaching artists will attend a week-long intensive workshop led by Thom Jones, head of voice and speech at Brown University.

Visit them at: www.dallastheatercenter.org