A brief trailer for the World Premiere of The Sports Page by Larry Herold, playing at Stage West from Feb. 9 - Mar. 18th. Dallas playwright and former sports writer Larry Herold takes a comic
look back at a Dallas Cowboys training camp in 1966, when the whole
media world is about to change. Television has landed in the form of the
first woman reporter in a man's world! See Collins talent, Chuck Huber.
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It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a
device called "television". Who will unlock the key to the powerful
innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul or the
self-taught Idaho farm boy? Playing on the Norma Young Arena Stage at Theatre Three from
February 16 - March 17, 2012. See Collins talent Jakie Cabe, Lydia Mackay, Alex Organ, Catherine DuBord and directed by Jeffrey Schmidt.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
See Jakie Cabe in T3's La Béte
Check out Lawson Taitte's review...
Theater: An actors’ life is theirs, onstage and off, for ‘La Bête’ stars Bradley Campbell and Jakie Cabe
Lawson Taitte
Theater Critic
Published: 16
December 2011 04:20 PM
Bradley Campbell and
Jakie Cabe fittingly play dueling actors in Theatre Three’s La Bête: They’re two of the busiest and
most versatile performers on North Texas stages.
In David Hirson’s
period comedy, Cabe portrays Elomire, a French actor-playwright modeled after Moliere. A noble patron
is insisting Elomire hire a low clown, Valere, Campbell’s role. Elomire’s a
combative, creative intellectual; Valere is a fool offstage and on. They couldn’t
be more opposite.
The show’s director,
Jac Alder, says the two real-life actors also couldn’t be more different in the
ways they work, though not necessarily in the ways their roles would lead you
to expect.
“Bradley came into
the first rehearsal with his long, 20-minute speech already memorized. Jakie
gets the performance out by getting the words inside him gradually,” Alder
says. “Both of them are nicely physical actors and work in a collegial way —
but differently.”
For all their
exposure on area stages, this is the first time the two actors have worked
together. Cabe, 43, a North Carolina native, came to the area in 1994 after
graduate school at Louisiana State University. He lives in Fort Worth
and did most of his early Texas roles at Tarrant County’s Shakespeare
in the Park, Casa Mañana and Stage West. He landed his first Dallas role in
the Dallas Theater Center’s 2003 Hamlet
and has ventured across the county line with increasing frequency.
“When I saw him
[playing Dr. Watson] in the dress rehearsal of our Sherlock Holmes
show last year, I said to myself, ‘What the hell took you so long?’ He had
actually never auditioned for us before,” Alder says. “I couldn’t have done Travesties earlier this year without
him.”
Campbell, 52, goes
way back with Theatre Three. Raised in Dallas and trained at Texas Tech
University, debuted in another Theatre Three play in verse, Infidelities (alongside La Bête co-star Georgia Clinton) in 1985
and later played Seymour in the company’s touring version of Little Shop of Horrors . Subsequently,
though, he moved to New York, got
a job as a paralegal and left show business altogether. Only after moving back
to Dallas in 2000 did the acting bug bite him again, though he still keeps his
paralegal day job.
“I really glad I’m
not making a living doing this,” Campbell says.
Even so, Campbell has
had his pick of great roles all over town, such as Willy Loman in Classical
Acting Company’s Death of a Salesman
, Horace
Vandergelder in Lyric Stage’s Hello,
Dolly! and Falstaff in Shakespeare Dallas’ The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tex.
Cabe’s most memorable
performances have come in contemporary material. He has been especially
successful in plays that require him to play multiple parts, like Stage West’s Stones in His Pockets and Circle Theatre’s
Chesapeake.
When asked about
their roles in La Bête, the actors
resort to quips.
“We just know our
lines,” Cabe says.
“Thank God, they do,”
Alder adds. “I’m so proud of them.”
It’s no small
achievement. Even aside from Campbell’s huge monologue, both men are onstage
almost the whole play and carry most of the dialogue.
In the scheme of the
play, Elomire stands for both artistic high-mindedness and arty highhandedness,
Valere for populist, even lowbrow, entertainment. Are these actors like the
characters they play?
“Yeah, I think of
myself as a giant bad actor,” Campbell drawls. “Actually, I identify with both
of them. If they’d just bend a little, it would be fine.”
Cabe feels a little
closer to the character he’s playing.
“Not that I’m a
revolutionary for my art, but I’m a closet rebel,” he says. “I like to keep
things shaken up.”
Ends this weekend--go check it out!
Through Jan. 14 at
Theatre Three at the Quadrangle.
Friday, December 16, 2011
A Christmas Carol - Dallas Theater Center
The Mary Collins Agency is so proud to represent several of the the main cast members of the Dallas Theater Center's 2011 production of "A Christmas Carol!"
Top--from left to right: Jonathan Brooks plays The Ghost of Jacob Marley, Topper and one of Fred's Guests; Abbey Siegworth is The Ghost of Christmas Past and Fred's Wife's Sister; Kurt Rhoads plays Ebenezer Scrooge; Agent, Mary Collins; Steven Walters is Fred (Scrooge's Nephew) and the Fiddler; and Lee Trull plays Bob Cratchit and Belle's Husband.
Bottom--from left to right: the cast with their proud agents - Sara Rhodes, Mary Collins, Alice Galipp and Kim Trusty.
Catch the show now through Christmas Eve at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Carol Farabee as "Mrs. Claus" - Children's Medical Center Parade
Catch Carol as Mrs. Claus in the Children's Medical Center Holiday Parade this Saturday at 10am. Downtown Dallas, rain or shine!
Friday, October 21, 2011
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