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UPTOWN PLAYERS

3636 Turtle Creek Blvd
Dallas, TX 75219
214-219-2718


About the Theatre

The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theatre that meets a rising demand in the community for audiences to see their life experiences represented on stage. We offer diverse productions focusing on contemporary and alternative lifestyle themes that explore topics including diversity, relationships, family, prejudice, and values. We present plays and musicals that challenge audiences artistically, strengthen cultural bridges with the LGBTQIA+ community, and create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts.

Uptown Players stands with acceptance and inclusivity in all communities. It is our priority at Uptown Players to give a clear voice to LGBTQIA+ artists and the rich stories they tell, to offer an inclusive platform for all artists and audiences, and to offer diverse productions that represent the life experiences of the entire LGBTQIA+ community.


Founded in 2001, Uptown Players is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, presenting plays and musicals that challenge audiences artistically and create greater positive public awareness and acceptance through the performing arts. In 2010, Uptown Players moved to the historic 490-seat Kalita Humphreys Theater on Turtle Creek. Uptown Players is one of the leading regional theaters in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and is providing an opportunity for a wide diversity of gender styles to come together and explore life choices through great theatre themes. The response from the community and critics has been remarkable, including over 25 Leon Rabin Awards from the Dallas Theatre League, and over 30 Theater Critics Forum Awards. Uptown Players has also been named the best theatre company by the Dallas Voice Readers and by the Dallas Observer and has been featured in D Magazine and on WFAA’s Daybreak and Good Morning Texas programs.


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Uptown Players Presents BROADWAY OUR WAY This May


by A.A. Cristi - April 09, 2024

Uptown Players has announced the return of its annual fundraiser, Broadway Our Way. This highly anticipated event showcases the remarkable talent and creativity of past Uptown Players' cast members, presenting a weekend of Broadway music with a contemporary twist. ...

Uptown Players Host CABARET WEEKEND in May


by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2024

Uptown Players has announced a Cabaret Weekend taking place May 10th through May 12th, featuring the renowned Dragapella sensation, The Kinsey Sicks, and the two-act cabaret show, Simply the Best -- A Tribute to the Greatest Artists of Our Time....

Uptown Players to Present Regional Premiere of FIRE AND AIR by Terrence McNally


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 16, 2024

Uptown Players will bring the regional premiere of Fire and Air by playwright Terrence McNally to the stage. See performance dates and learn how to purchase tickets....

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Dallas Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Dallas Awards; SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Grand Prairie Arts Council & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards; SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Grand Prairie Arts Council & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 11, 2023

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards December 5th Standings; SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 05, 2023

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards; THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Leads Best Play!


by BWW Awards - November 27, 2023

Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards; SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - November 20, 2023

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dallas Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

JADA BELLS - A HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA Comes to Uptown Players Next Month


by Stephi Wild - November 03, 2023

Brace yourselves for the most spectacular musical holiday event of the year! Uptown Players will present 'Jada Bells - A Holiday Extravaganza,' starring the sensational Lee Walter as the vivacious Jada Pinkett Fox. ...

Past Shows

Chicken & Biscuits
7/28 - 8/13/2023


Can rivaling sisters Baneatta and Beverly bury their father without killing each other? This proves difficult when Beverly shows up to the chapel with her ...

The Little Dog Laughed
8/19 - 8/28/2022


Kinky Boots
7/15 - 7/31/2022


Kinky Boots isn't your typical rags-to-riches story. It's a heart-warming musical that throws a sparkly spotlight on acceptance and finding your niche. Charlie Price, facing ...

Oy Vey In A Manger
Oy Vey In A Manger
12/10 - 12/12/2021


In Oy Vey in a Manger, we find Angel, Winnie, Trixie, and Trampolina trying to sell off their manger yes, that manger before it's foreclosed ...

When Pigs Fly
When Pigs Fly
7/9 - 7/25/2021


Uptown Players is proud to present the hilarious musical When Pigs Fly! In a hastily booked theater under renovation, Howard struggles to put on a ...

Helen Holy's Holiday Streaming Spectacular


Join us for this special holiday edition of Sister Helen Holys 701 club, starring Paul J. Williams as his most popular altar ego, Sister Helen ...

A Very Sordid Wedding
A Very Sordid Wedding
8/21 - 8/30/2020


It's 2015, seventeen years after Sordid Lives and Peggys unfortunate death, after tripping over G.W.'s wooden legs, and life has now moved on for the ...

Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels
7/10 - 7/26/2020


For the final mainstage production of its 2019-2020 season, Uptown Players presents the regional premiere of the recent Broadway musical, Head Over Heels, the bold ...

Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation
5/29 - 6/7/2020


Uptown Players continues its 2019-2020 season with the 2017 Tony Award nominee for Best Revival of a Play, Six Degrees of Separation, written by John ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
4/10 - 4/26/2020


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 ...

Six Degrees of Separation
3/13 - 3/29/2020


Young Paul artfully cons himself into the lives of New York's bourgeois by claiming to know a wealthy couple's Ivy League children and being the ...

Broadway Our Way
Broadway Our Way
1/16 - 1/19/2020


The Uptown Players divas return for another entertaining weekend of Broadway music with plenty of twists, laughs and surprises. The evening features many of your ...

NUNCRACKERS
12/6 - 12/15/2019


Nuncrackers takes us back to Mt. Saint Helens’ convent where we find the Little Sisters of Hoboken preparing for a Christmas presentation of The Nutcracker, ...

Nuncrackers a-Men
Nuncrackers a-Men
12/6 - 11/15/2019


It stars the nuns you love, this time played by men, plus Father Virgil and four of Mount Saint Helens most talented students. Featuring all ...

The Cake
The Cake
8/9 - 8/25/2019


Della’s North Carolina bakery is legendary! She is overjoyed when her best friend’s daughter returns from New York to get married and asks Della to ...

The View Upstairs
The View Upstairs
6/21 - 7/7/2019


When a young fashion designer from 2017, buys an abandoned building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, he finds himself transported to the UpStairs ...

Broadway Our Way 2019
Broadway Our Way 2019
5/10 - 5/12/2019


The Uptown Players divas return for another entertaining weekend of Broadway music with plenty of twists, laughs and surprises. The evening features many of your ...

Disaster
Disaster
3/22 - 4/7/2019


Disaster!, a musical comedy created by Seth Rudetsky, and written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick. It’s 1979 and New York’s hottest A-listers are lining ...

DISASTER!
3/22 - 4/7/2019


Earthquakes, tidal waves, infernos and the unforgettable songs of the ’70s take center stage in Broadway’s side-splitting homage to classic disaster films....

SPRING AWAKENING
1/31 - 2/3/2019


Spring Awakening explodes onto the stage with a raw and powerful exploration of teenage angst and sexual awakening in a repressed society. Set in late ...

A Very Judy Christmas
A Very Judy Christmas
12/1 - 12/16/2018


In this world premiere which pays tribute to the 1960’s TV specials, Judy Garland invites us into her home for her Christmas Holiday special. Share ...

Straight
Straight
10/13 - 10/21/2018


Straight is a provocative new play that deals with fidelity, sexuality and identity in "post-equality" America. Funny, sad, sexy and surprising, Straight follows Ben, a ...

The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey


THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY - Chuck DeSantis (Terry Martin) is a brash New Jersey detective eager for a case that gets him out ...

Angels in America Part 2
Angels in America Part 2
9/28 - 10/7/2018


Part two of Tony Kushner’s epic tale of AIDS in 1980s America begins in a ruined place where the old orders are splintering and everything—andeveryone—has ...


BETTE MIDLER proudly presents the most OUTRAGEOUSLY FUN Broadway musical: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT! This spectacular show tells the uplifting story of a trio ...

A CHORUS LINE
2/2 - 2/4/2018


The show won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of the few musicals ever to receive this honor, and the New York Drama Critics' ...

TITANIC
5/5 - 5/7/2017


In the final hours of 14th April 1912 the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and ...

IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU
3/24 - 4/9/2017


A world where nothing is what it seems, religions collide, Machiavellian plots are revealed, promises are broken, secrets are exposed and hope springs from the ...

THE TOXIC AVENGER
8/26 - 9/17/2016


Based on Lloyd Kaufman's cult film and winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, The Toxic Avenger is a charming love ...


Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA is a contemporary musical take on a grand classic tale of the timeless bond between an enslaved Nubian princess ...

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
7/24 - 8/9/2015


Catch Me If You Can is a musical drama based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film of the same name, which itself is based on ...

Pageant
3/28 - 4/13/2014


Albert Evans, Frank Kelly, Robert Longbottom, Bill Russell; dir: Coy Covington....


Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their ...

Broadway Our Way
1/17 - 1/26/2014


dir: BJ Cleveland....

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
6/21 - 7/7/2013


Jason Robert Brown says, "it's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn ...

THE PRODUCERS
8/24 - 9/15/2012


Bialystock and Bloom! Those names should strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with Mel Brooks ' classic cult comedy film. Now as a big ...

THE PRODUCERS
7/27 - 8/19/2012


Bialystock and Bloom! Those names should strike terror and hysteria in anyone familiar with a href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000361#"Mel Brooks/a' classic cult comedy film. Now as a big ...

XANADU
3/12 - 4/1/2012


strongXANADU/strong follows the journey of a magical and beautiful Greek muse, Kira, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach, California in ...

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