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WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison, 972-450-6232, watertowertheatre.org .
By Ruth Haesemeyer
neighborsgo editor
The Great American Trailer Park Musical. William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Intimate Apparel.
The 2007-08 season at WaterTower Theatre in Addison is a mixture of the classic, the controversial and the comic, as are all its seasons.
“If a patron were to come here and see every show for a season … they would have seen a very, very wide range of dramatic literature that’s out there,” Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin said.
WaterTower was founded in 1996 and has found a home for its productions at The Addison Conference and Theatre Centre. Martin said it is the only fully professional theatre in the North Dallas area.
“The aesthetic quality of our work could rival many of the things you see in New York, we think,” he said.
Though the theatre is committed to using local actors and crew, it will occasionally bring talent in from outside the area.
“I like to use as many different artistic voices on the stage as possible,” Martin said.
Variety is important to WaterTower, and Martin said he works to find a blend and balance when planning seasons, a process he leads. To do this, he said he tries to imagine what the audience member would want to see and to find stories that need to be told.
“Sometimes stories that need to be told are controversial,” Martin said. “That doesn’t mean that they don’t need to be told. On the same token, that means that some stories that we’ve heard over and over again still need to be told.”
Ultimately, he said the goal is to initiate conversation.
“Which I think good stories and good theatre should do,” Martin said.
See the shows:
Intimate Apparel
Award-winning play about an African-American woman’s search for love in the early 1900s
8 p.m. June 13 and 14 and 2 p.m. June 15
Oklahoma!Live, outdoor performance of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, music provided by The Dallas Wind Symphony
August 29 through 30
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Comedic musical about a slave who manipulates his way to freedom in ancient Rome
July 17 through Aug. 10
