This has been a big year for the little house on Exposition. We finished a splendiferous season with Carla Parker’s mysterious Daddy’s Rabbits and launched Season 16 with a restaging of Matthew Posey’s titanic musical comedy-tragedy Patty & Theo. If you missed them, you’ll be receiving a lump of fossil fuel in your stocking.
We’ve also been busy tidying up the homestead with some duct tape and elbow grease. Matthew and Isaac Davies put a new coat of paint on the storefront.
Carla carried out the trash and did some light carpentry. Kevin Grammer washed costumes and some old props and hauled some stuff to Goodwill. Justin Locklear took a monkey wrench to some stubborn pipes.
You may have heard, we were awarded “Best Theater Company” by D Magazine for 2024. An Ochre extended family member, Omar Padilla, was named “Best Actor.” We are proud and grateful.
Kevin is working away on an original new production for February. He’s not telling what it’s about yet, but you can bet it’ll be enchanting, disconcerting, captivating, and dare we imagine “woke.” It will include the requisite polyrhythmic, urbane songs and music.
Hope your year was as good as ours. We’re settling in for a nonviolent holiday (with pie!) and hope you have the merriest. Do your best to survive the new year and don’t forget to come see our little shows. We crave your laughter and applause.
From our stage to yours–to all a good night,
The Ochre Family
AT LEAST A DOZEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT AT THE OCHRE HOUSE MERCHANDISE EMPORIUM!
OCHRE WHO?
If you don’t know us, the Ochre House is an intimate little 55-seat storefront theater in a 100-year-old building in Dallas’ Expo Park neighborhood near the main entrance to the Texas State Fairgrounds. We’re in our fifteenth season of critically acclaimed, audience celebrated, pioneering, unorthodox theater productions.
Unique in North Texas, every story, every script, and every musical number are hand-crafted under our roof by a core group of slightly deranged, but highly innovative artists. We consider it our mission to engage you, shock you, mystify you, make you feel, and make you think things you might never have thunk. Every show is a world premiere.
Our founder and Artistic Director, Matthew Posey, furthers a long career of writing, directing, producing, and acting for stage and screen. He’s appeared in some minor productions you may not be familiar with: No Country for Old Men, The Magnificent Seven, Mr. Brooks, Places in the Heart, Dallas (original and reboot), The Son, Lonesome Dove, Walker Texas Ranger. None of these will prepare you for the Ochre House experience. They’re a paycheck to enable his true love: totally original, experimental, unpredictable live theater with live music and the occasional puppet.
The Ochre House is an essential check box on your bucket list, whether you’re a live theater enthusiast, “underground Dallas” explorer, the idle bored seeking the undiscovered, or just a lover of good yarns and accompanying instant classic tunes.
The Ochre House is the arts and a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Consider a donation, a sponsorship or a grant. Tell your friends, benefactors, and foundations.
