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Addison's WaterTower Theatre finds new stage for its summer musicals

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January 9, 2025

Addison's WaterTower Theatre finds new stage for its summer musicals

For its 2025 season, Second Thought Theatre is going all-in on world premieres written by Dallas-Fort Worth playwrights.

While exploring the question of “What space does STT provide in DFW?” executive director Parker Davis Gray says, “STT is a place where audiences intentionally attend to be challenged by and wrestle with sharp new stories and an electric take on reimagined classics.”

The company likens this perspective to the work produced by the independent TV and film production company A24, and says that has inspired this upcoming season.

Opening Second Thought’s 21st season is Blake Hackler’s Healed, which follows Gail, who has been sick for 25 years.

Every doctor, every test, every treatment — none of it has worked. Now, with nothing left to lose, she sells everything and heads to a radical health center in the Texas Hill Country, run by the enigmatic and controversial Dr. T. Will this be her cure, her salvation, or something else entirely? It runs April 25-May 10, 2025.

Hackler’s previous work at STT includes the premieres of What We Were, The Necessities, and the 2018 Ibsen adaptation Enemies/ People.

Ringing in the summer is the sci-fi experiment Your Wife’s Dead Body, written by STT artistic associate Jenny Ledel in her playwriting premiere.

While Ledel is remembered for her performances in Belleville, Grounded, and What We Were, this shift to the other side of the table has been years in the making.

“Over the past few years, I’ve been reading Jenny’s plays and attending readings of her work,” says Gray, “she has such an accessible, inviting, and exciting voice that will resonate with Dallas as we begin to navigate the unknown landscape the next few years will bring us.”

Your Wife’s Dead Body takes place in the near future, as Jane takes advantage of a new AI technology that would extend her lifespan … even if she’s not around to see it for herself. A play about relationships, the nature of self, and what may or may not remain of us when we leave this life behind, this story asks us to consider the new and difficult questions humans may face as new technologies emerge.

Ledel’s world premiere will be directed by former STT artistic director (and Ledel’s husband) Alex Organ. It runs July 11-26, 2025.

To close out the 2025 season, STT will dive into a new genre with INCARNATE by STT’s own Parker Davis Gray.

Trapped in her cell, Rosamund is hellbent on escaping her fate while the Man who kidnapped her struggles with the consequences of what grief can do, and how far he will go to escape it. Can they live with themselves? Or more importantly, who else is living with them?

A horror/thriller that follows two artists over the course of a year in their seemingly pointless pursuit of creation while suffering under great grief. Directed by Jenna Burnett, who also directed the original reading at Undermain Theatre, it runs October 17-November 1, 2025.

In addition to a world premiere-packed season, STT will continue its year-long playwriting incubator program, Thought Process, andadd another development program to the docket.

2025 will be the inaugural year of Second Thought Theatre’s Associate Director Program, a year-long cohort aimed at providing professional development through education, exposure, and opportunity. Three early-career professionals will have the opportunity to assist on one production of the 2025 season, gain training and receive feedback from professional directors, spend the year working on scene study with STT artistic director Carson McCain, and then end their year with each director taking the lead on one to three readings.

“The purpose of this cohort is to fill a gap we currently see in the DFW arts community,” says McCain. “We want to offer early career directors a safe place to develop their craft and seek feedback from their peers and other professionals. We want this to be a group that allows directors to grow without the pressures of impressing a professional theater in order to be hired again. STT will serve as facilitators and educators, giving feedback, training, and a place to ask questions.”

Season subscriptions and individual tickets are now on sale at SecondThoughtTheatre.com. All productions will take place at Bryant Hall.

Second Thought Theatre Announces their new season centered around cost and consequence as they showcase the sharp and bold voices of local DFW playwrights.

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Dallas airports see growing delays amid FAA flight cuts, shutdown

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November 10, 2025

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Dallas airports see growing delays amid FAA flight cuts, shutdown

As the government shutdown enters its 41st day, flight delays and cancellations are mounting at DFW and Love Field, where new FAA flight reductions are stranding travelers and stretching air traffic controllers who continue to work without pay.

On Monday, dozens more flights were reduced under the FAA’s new mandate, requiring airlines to cut schedules by 10% because of air traffic controller shortages amid the shutdown.

“Once I got in on Friday, I knew I was flying out Monday. It was going to be a little worse, and now I got here and 10 minutes before I was supposed to board, they cancelled my plane,” said Teddy Starnes, who was traveling to Boston for work.

Federal employees unpaid for over a month

These shortages come as controllers and TSA agents continue working without pay. Many federal employees have not been paid in over a month, despite, in some cases, continuing to work overtime just like they had been prior to the shutdown.

“It’s frustrating, I feel bad for the people caught in the middle,” said Heather Moore, who lives in DFW but was in New Orleans for work. “The TSA workers, it’s nice that they’re still here, still working for us even though they’re not getting paid to do so, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll get back pay, but I just appreciate them.”

Air traffic was cut by 4% on Friday, but the FAA’s order will require that number to jump to 6% by Tuesday and 10% by Friday, if the government shutdown continues.

“The trouble is it’s going to get worse,” said aviation expert Kit Darby. “Ten percent is a fair amount, but as long as we don’t have anything else, like weather or communication outages, all the things that we’ve dealt with, but if you combine anything like weather with this, it’s going to be significant.”

FAA halts most non-commercial flights at DFW amid shutdown

Monday, the FAA also closed most non-commercial air traffic at 12 major airports, including DFW. Darby said that this, on top of flight reductions, is going to have a large impact on the country.

“People don’t realize how many small airplanes are involved in our economy daily, so it’ll affect everything nationwide. You won’t realize it for a while, but these are responsible for a huge portion of our national business,” he said.

While the FAA’s order closes the airport to general aviation and non-scheduled aircraft, there are exceptions for emergencies, medical flights, law enforcement and military operations. But with holiday travel fast approaching, Darby said time is running out for airports to bounce back. The FAA order on non-commercial flights is in place until 6 p.m. Monday.

“If there’s any way possible, they’re going to get back to full capacity for Thanksgiving, assuming that the shutdown ends quickly,” Darby said. “If it’s next week, it’s going to be even tougher, and of course, if it’s still going on, it’s going to be a real mess.”

CBS News Texas contacted UPS and FedEx regarding airport changes and whether they will be impacted, but both said most of their flights operate at night, so they will be able to continue operation without interruptions.

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Tyler Seguin goal gives Stars second comeback win in two days with victory over Kraken

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November 10, 2025

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Tyler Seguin goal gives Stars second comeback win in two days with victory over Kraken

Tyler Seguin’s goal in the closing seconds of the first period held up as the winner and Casey DeSmith stopped 30 of 31 shots as the Dallas Stars beat the Seattle Kraken 2-1 on Sunday night.

Wyatt Johnston also scored for the Stars with his league-leading seventh power-play goal.

Jaden Schwartz ended a personal six-game goalless streak for the Kraken.

DeSmith won the matchup of reserve goalies with both teams completing a back-to-back after winning on the road on Saturday. Nine of his saves came during penalty kills.

Seattle third-string goalie Matt Murray made 22 saves in his second start of the season.

Dallas’ Miro Heiskanen had two assists giving him eight in the last three games and three consecutive multipoint games. Heiskanen also drew two of the Kraken’s four penalties.

The Stars are 11-1-1 all time vs. Seattle in regular-season play, 6-0-1 at home.

Seguin scored with 32.2 seconds left in the opening period with a backhander slid at the near post under Murray’s right pad and across the goal line.

Schwartz’s redirection gave Seattle a 1-0 lead 3:15 in.

Johnston tied the score less than a minute and a half later about midway through the power play.

The Stars, with the league’s best home power play, have scored at least one power-play goal in nine of their last 10 overall games.

Dallas’ home penalty kill, second-to-worst in the NHL, went 3-for-3.

Joey Daccord, Seattle’s No. 1 goalie, is sidelined with a lower-body injury. Daccord hasn’t played since leaving Wednesday’s 6-1 loss to San Jose early in the third period after allowing five goals on 20 shots.

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Cowboys schedule: Is Dallas playing today?

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2 days ago

November 9, 2025

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Cowboys schedule: Is Dallas playing today?

The second half of the 2025 NFL season has commenced, when do the Cowboys play?

The Dallas Cowboys have lost three of their last four games to drop to 3-5-1 on the season. The defense has struggled to stop any and everything all season, and it’s started to catch up with the viable offense. Over the last two weeks, Dak Prescott and company have looked nothing like they had for the majority of the season. They’ve looked bad, and the haters have regained some ammunition, but the reality is there’s no world where the great side of the ball is unaffected by the other side being inept in every way.

This past week, the club tried to do something about it, acquiring a new middle linebacker in Logan Wilson, and a new defensive tackle in Quinnen Williams. Dallas made two deadline deals, bringing in the veterans to try and help establish some level of roadblock for opposing offenses. With a slew of players returning from injury as well, the Cowboys have a lot to look forward to the next time they hit the field, even if the playoffs are likely out of reach.

Do the Dallas Cowboys play today in Week 10?

There are four teams having their bye week this week; the Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, Tennessee Titans, and the Dallas Cowboys. Fans will have to wait another week to see the newest additions don the star. Williams and Wilson will be joined by the team’s two starting safeties returning from injury in Donovan Wilson and Malik Hooker. Not just them, but linebacker DeMarvion Overshown and rookie CB Shavon Revel will be making their 2024 debuts when Dallas hits the field.

If Revel starts over Elam, and if Overshown starts next to WIlson, that’s six new starters coming aboard for the Cowboys defense under Matt Eberflus in Week 11 when they take on the Las Vegas Raiders.