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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Comes to Stage West

An unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything—what more could go wrong?  Plenty, and you’ll have a grand time finding out, in the uproarious The Play That Goes Wrong, which begins a 4-week run Thursday, February 16, following its initial run at WaterTower Theatre.
Photos: First Look at INTO THE BREECHES! at Stage West

Stage West will present George Brant’s hilarious Into the Breeches!, which begins a 4-week regional premiere run on Thursday, June 9.
Stage West Announces Virtual Production, OCTOBER PLAYLETS

Stage West is pleased to announce that it will be presenting October Playlets, three short plays written specifically to be live-streamed, from October 8-18.
Stage West Announces Updates For Its Season

While Stage West had previously announced hopes of presenting Into the Breeches! this September at Fort Worth's Trinity Park Pavilion, the group has now accepted that that dream will not become a reality. The show has officially been postponed, until at least the summer of 2021. 
HOLMES AND WATSON Are On The Case At Stage West

Sherlock Holmes is dead-he died in a struggle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, as both went over the edge of the cliff at Reichenbach Falls.  Or did he? The plot is definitely about to thicken, as Stage West presents the regional premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's Holmes and Watson, in a 5-week regional premiere run at Stage West beginning Thursday, May 30.
Stage West Presents Regional Premiere Of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' EVERYBODY

Morality and Mortality have never been such a perfect pair!
Photo Flash: DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER Comes to Stage West

Bernard has it all - a wonderful old country house, a lovely, devoted wife, a loyal best friend, and a gorgeous mistress. But this enviable life is about to get turned completely upside-down, in Robin Hawdon's adaptation of Marc Camoletti's madcap farce, Don't Dress for Dinner, beginning a 5-week run at Stage West beginning Thursday, July 12.
Stage West Presents the Regional Premiere of LIFE SUCKS.

Life is, like, really hard sometimes. It's hard to be the hot chick everyone wants, but no one understands.
Exclusive Photo Coverage: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Gets Joyful for Carols For A Cure

The holiday season is not complete without the perfect music to accompany it. 'Broadway's Carols for a Cure' is the latest compilation album that embodies the spirit of the season like nothing else can. A project born completely out of love, 'Broadway's Carols for a Cure' pairs the casts from famous Broadway musicals with songs that are both classic and new. The result is pure gold that will make you reach for the 'repeat' button over and over again.
Stage West to Present WAIT UNTIL DARK, Beginning 5/26

Susan Hendrix is working hard to become self-reliant, having lost her sight fairly recently in a car wreck.  It's no easy task--but things are about to get a whole lot harder, as her apartment is invaded by some ruthless thieves, in Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of the Frederick Knott thriller Wait Until Dark, beginning its 5-week run at Stage West on Thursday, May 26. 
Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at THE EXPLORERS CLUB, Coming to Stage West

It's London, 1879, and The Explorers Club is in crisis. A woman has been proposed for membership! The members of this venerable club are in shock-who could imagine such a thing? What's really needed here is a good stiff drink, but unfortunately, they have the worst bartender in all of London. And this is just the beginning of the hijinks in Nell Benjamin's The Explorers Club, a co-production with WaterTower Theatre, beginning its 6-week Stage West run today, November 28. (After the holidays, the play will move to WaterTower Theatre for a run from January 16-February 8.) BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at THE EXPLORERS CLUB, Coming to Stage West

It's London, 1879, and The Explorers Club is in crisis. A woman has been proposed for membership! The members of this venerable club are in shock-who could imagine such a thing? What's really needed here is a good stiff drink, but unfortunately, they have the worst bartender in all of London. And this is just the beginning of the hijinks in Nell Benjamin's The Explorers Club, a co-production with WaterTower Theatre, beginning its 6-week Stage West run on Friday, November 28. (After the holidays, the play will move to WaterTower Theatre for a run from January 16-February 8.) BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
WaterTower Theatre Announces Cast of THE EXPLORERS CLUB

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced the cast for the The Explorers Club, a co-production with Stage West, running January 16-February 8, 2015 at the Addison Theatre Centre.
Exclusive Photo Coverage: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Cast Brings a Torch to Carols For A Cure

BroadwayWorld is excited to continue our exclusive photo coverage of the recording sessions for this year's album with the cast of The Phantom of the Opera, who sing 'Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella.' Check out photos of cast members Bill Kazden, Laird Mackintosh, Nathan Patrick Morgan, Arlo Hill, Rose Mary Taylor and more below!
Stage West's BEYOND THERAPY Begins Tonight

Two neurotic people looking for love and two therapists who are clearly less sane than their patients. What could go wrong? That's the question posed by Christopher Durang's sharply satirical farce Beyond Therapy, beginning a 6-week run at Stage West tonight, August 21.
Stage West's BEYOND THERAPY Begins 8/21

Two neurotic people looking for love and two therapists who are clearly less sane than their patients. What could go wrong? That's the question posed by Christopher Durang's sharply satirical farce Beyond Therapy, beginning a 6-week run at Stage West on Thursday, August 21.
Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO Plays Stage West, Beg. Tonight

What happens when a strapping young Englishman suddenly finds he has become a woman? It's an amazing journey, to say the very least, in Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's sweeping and witty Orlando, beginning a 5-week run at Stage West tonight, April 3.
Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO to Play Stage West, Beg. 4/3

What happens when a strapping young Englishman suddenly finds he has become a woman? It's an amazing journey, to say the very least, in Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's sweeping and witty Orlando, beginning a 5-week run at Stage West on Thursday, April 3.
Photo Flash: THANK YOU, JEEVES to Return to Stage West, Begin. 8/22

"You know, the longer I live, the more I feel that the great wheeze in life is to be jolly well sure what you want and not let yourself be put off by pals who think they know better than you do.' Typical Bertie Wooster philosophy, and it generally serves him pretty well. But what happens when what he wants drives his trusted valet Jeeves to the brink? The result is classic British comedy at is funniest, in Mark Richard's adaptation of the P. G. Wodehouse book Thank You, Jeeves, beginning a 6-week run at Stage West on Thursday, August 22. Check out a first look below!
TAMING OF THE SHREW Begins at Stage West Tonight

Call it The Bachelorette: Padua. Baptista is looking to marry off his two daughters. He knows he will have no trouble with Bianca - but older daughter Kate is quite another matter. And that's where the fun begins in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, beginning its run at Fort Worth's Stage West tonight, February 21.

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