Season 27
January through
December 2025
The Echo Offstage Podcast is Back!
UP NEXT ONSTAGE: ECHO READS SALON SERIES
Three lightly rehearsed Play Readings. FREE. Talkback post-show.
SPRING 2025 SEASON THEME:
HER TERMS
A Female Perspective
of the Male Gaze
Darkly Comedic Scripts about social
sexual dynamics and female agency therein.
Note: Echo Reads is programmed for adult audiences.
At Echo, we provide a safe space for artists, supporters, and audiences to enjoy learning, growing, and evolving together as people and as an institution.
Join us for post-show Talkbacks to untangle this season's theme.
All scripts in the Spring 2025 Season are available via the National New Play Network
and are produced through special arrangements with the playwrights.
MAY 20, 2025, at 7:30 pm
A PLAY ABOUT DAVID MAMET WRITING
A PLAY ABOUT HARVEY WEINSTEIN
by Mathilde Dratwa
directed by Jared Culpepper
Dark comedy | 75 minutes
Ages 18 and up.
A searingly smart, violent, and brave play about gender semantics and
the artistically misogynistic world that is both our past and our present.
Trigger/Content Warning: This script contains explicit language, discussions of and references to sexual discrimination and assault, sex acts, violence, and bodily harm.
JUNE 17, 2025, at 7:30 pm
THIS IS HOW YOU GOT ME NAKED
or MY SEXY FAIRYTALE
by Catherine Weingarten
directed by Liv Murphy
Dark comedy | 75 minutes
Ages 14 and up with guardian.
A college freshman wants her BFF to notice her "in a hot way".
Things don't turn out exactly as she had hoped. Hookup culture reminds
us that friends are there to catch us when we fall.
Trigger/Content Warning:
This script contains adult language and discussions of sexual acts.
CONCLUDED
APRIL 15, 2025, at 7:30 pm
ELEVATOR GIRL
by Donna Hoke
directed by Rowan Gilvie
Comedy | 75 minutes
Ages 14 and up with guardian.
Elevator Girl was never meant to be more than a revenge fantasy created by Vanessa
and her graphic illustrator boyfriend. But then a flesh-and-blood copycat appears.
Trigger/Content Warning:
This play explores shocking themes such as Sexual Assault and Rape Culture.
Echo Theatre Mainstage Lineup
F A M I L Y
The Ties that Make Us... and Break Us.
Flex Ticket 6-packs on Sale!
Th/Fr/Sat Evenings @ 7:30 pm and Sat Matinees @ 2:00 pm
All performances at the City of Dallas' Bath House Cultural Center
Single Tickets on Sale May 9!
June 6-21, '25 | National Pride Month.
Chosen Family ...
A queer love story, OPEN is a one-woman show that asks the audience to believe in the Magic of love. The Magician must perform the impossible to save the life of her partner. The clock is ticking, the show must go on, and this magician’s act may offer our last hope against a world once again filled with intolerance and hate.
supported, in part, by
EL REY DEL POLLO Single Tickets go on sale Sept. 1, 2025.
Family Business ...
A Nuevo Comedy about a Family Business. Reymundo Lear is retiring from running his fried chicken empire and plans to pass on his three restaurants to daughters, Gisela, Raquel, and Cordelia... until Cordelia falls out of favor. If you know Shakespeare's King Lear you'll enjoy the clever storyline, but this entertaining new Family-friendly comedy stands on its own.
supported, in part, by
Sept. 12-27, '25 | Hispanic Heritage Month.
CONCLUDED
Family Generations ...
Mothers, daughters, sons, fathers.
Three actors take on six roles, crossing both generations and gender in a family drama that explores mental illness, the bias of Orientalism, and centuries-old conflicts with no easy answers.
Feb. 14 - March 1, 2025
supported, in part, by
season sponsors I supporters
March Family Foundation
