Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students face high rates of school discipline, including detention, suspension and expulsion from school, according to a report released today by GLSEN, the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe and affirming schools for all students.

Members of the Texas chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a part of Everytown for Gun Safety, will be standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ community in Houston at the Houston Pride Fest.

Today, LGBT leaders and public officials in North Carolina discussed the political environment and the critical importance of LGBT lawmakers in the wake of HB2 and the recent mass hate crime in Orlando.

Wicked, the musical called by The New York Times “the defining musical of the decade” returns to Dallas April 20th for its fifth run at the Music Hall at Fair Park.  All previous runs have sold out and all indications are that this five week run will be no different.

Robert Frost's “The Road Less Traveled” ends with the passage “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”  Daily in life we come to these crossroads.  We are constantly presented with choices that depending on our choice of path determine the direction of our lives.

The Book of Mormon returns to DFW with a stop at Fort Worth’s Bass Hall this Week and the big question is can this show really be worth all the hype.  The answer is YES!  The winner of 9 Tony’s, 5 Drama Desk Awards and a Grammy is currently running on Broadway and with some 1,960 performances so far it has enjoyed a longer shelf life than Evita, Dreamgirls and Funny Girl.

After seven years of sold out audiences, incredible tupperware sales that put her in the top sellers of plastic bowls in the US year after year, I wondered why mess with a winning formula.  When you have something so successful, why write a new show, a play no less.  Dixie has taken quite a gamble returning to the stage with something so very different than what her audience is used to but for the trailer park Tupperware Diva the gamble has paid off and in a big way!

Every year, thousands of LGBT people flee to the United States (U.S.) from home countries where they face persecution and violence because of who they are or whom they love. However, once arriving in the US, LGBT asylum seekers frequently face the daunting task of building new lives in what can be an unfamiliar and often hostile environment.

Mowtown the Musical is not Dreamgirls and it is not meant to be.  Where Dreamgirls is a thinly veiled retelling of the behind the scenes rise of the Supreme's and the sometime dirty dealings of the fictionalized label boss, Mowtown the Musical makes clear for Gordy it was always all about the music.

The very successful Tony Award winning revival of 1973’s Broadway smash Pippen has taken to the road and is easily one of this season’s best offerings.

In the first ten minutes you will understand why Pippin won Best Revival of a Musical.

 Dirty Dancing was the movie that almost was not.  It scored so terribly in test screenings there was serious discussion of bypassing a theatrical release and sending the film direct to video.

Dirty Dancing is the hit that almost didn’t happen.  Screenings of the film were so disastrous that the film was almost released direct to video, which certainly would have led to a very different result.  But the film that had a title before there was even a story was released and had a worldwide gross of $214 Million Dollars.

 Don’t get me wrong, Dallas Theater Center has another amazing show on its hands.  Always looking to push the envelope and be creative in new ways DTC does not disappoint here.