Uptown Players Inc
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2012 Season
2012 season includes Take Me Out, Broadway Our Way, Silence of the Clams, The Divine Sister, The Producers, and Hello Again.
2013 season
Yellow
Ragtime
Re Designing Women
Songs For A New World
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
2014 season
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Pageant
Sweeney Todd
The Lyons
Soho Cinders
The Boy From Oz
2015 season
Gilligan's Fire Island
The Nance
Catch Me If You Can
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Harbor
2016 season
Aida
End of the Rainbow
Mothers and Sons
Its Only a Play
The Toxic Avenger
2017 season
Uptown Players, a professional theater group located in the Uptown area of Dallas, has announced its 2016-2017 season at the Kalita Humphreys Theater and Dallas City Performance Hall, which will feature the regional premieres of the six-time 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award nominated musical, It Shoulda Been You and the hilarious 2014 Off-Broadway hit comedy The Tribute Artist. Also in the season lineup are the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama, Angels In America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, and the Tony Award-winning musical La Cage Aux Folles. Uptown Players will also present a concert version of the multi-Tony Award winning musical, Titanic, in conjunction with the Turtle Creek Chorale in May at the City Performance Hall, and its annual fundraising production, Broadway Our Way, returns in March.
2018 season
Uptown Players, a professional theater group located in the Uptown area of Dallas, has announced its 2017-2018 season at the Kalita Humphreys Theater and Dallas City Performance Hall. The season will feature the regional premieres of the four-time 2011 Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk nominated musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and the hilarious 2015 Off-Broadway hit comedies The Legend of Georgia McBride and Perfect Arrangement. Also in the season lineup are the Tony Award-winning Musical The Full Monty along with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, A Chorus Line, which will be presented at the Dallas City Performance Hall. Rounding out its 2017-2018 season is its annual fundraising production, Broadway Our Way.
2019 Season
DALLAS, June 20, 2019 – Uptown Players, a professional theater group located in the Uptown area of Dallas, has announced its 2018-2019 season at the Kalita Humphreys Theater and Moody Performance Hall. The season will feature the regional premieres of the 2017 Drama Desk nominated musical, The View Upstairs, a new comedy from the writer of NBC's Emmy-nominated hit "This is Us", The Cake, plus the world premiere of a special holiday tribute, A Very Judy Christmas. Also in the season lineup are the hilarious 2016 Broadway musical, Disaster!, and the Tony Award-winning Musical Spring Awakening, which will be presented at Moody Performance Hall. Rounding out its 2018-2019 season is its annual fundraising production, Broadway Our Way, also at Moody Performance Hall and the previously announced production of Angels In America Part Two: Perestroika.
2020 season
The season will feature the regional premieres of a new twist on the Nunsense holiday special, Nuncrackers A-men! along with our annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way. The remainder of the 2020 season was cancelled or postponed to 2021 and we pivoted to filming productions to stream. Those productions were the world premiere of Helen Holy's Heavenly Holiday Spectacular and a new one-man version of Application Pending.
2021 Season
Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly: July 9-25 - A return of Uptown’s inaugural 2001 production, Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly is a hilarious, witty, and cheery musical revue, winning the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue.
Fun Home: August 20 - August 29
The winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Fun Home is a musical masterpiece adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir.
A Very Sordid Wedding: September 24 - October 3
Uptown Players presents a special, limited-run presentation of the world premiere of Del Shores’ new play, A Very Sordid Wedding.
Oy Vey in a Manger: December 10-12
For 24 years, KINSEY SICKS - America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet has served up a feast of music and comedy to audiences at performing arts centers, music venues, and comedy festivals across the USA and Mexico! Their award-winning a cappella singing, sharp satire, and over-the-top drag have earned Kinsey Sicks a devoted following.
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Affiliations & memberships
Actor's Equity Association 2010
National Alliance of Musical Theatres - Voting Member 2009
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Uptown Players Inc
Board of directorsas of 03/02/2022
Mr. Brian Jansen
Michaels
Term: 2009 - 2025
Mr Craig Lynch
Marketing Director
Term: 2009 - 2025
Jeff Rane
Uptown Players
Craig Lynch
Uptown Players
Coy Covington
Kate Newman
Junior League
Nancy Rubin
Uptown Players
Phillip Hearne
DISD
Jeff Falin
Texas Instruments
Tomas Soto
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