Oh, hey. It’s Alamo Drafthouse Richardson’s soft opening, the dawning of a great and glorious age of movie watching and themed events. Or something.
Tomorrow’s the official grand opening, so be nice today. As an homage to the tech corridor in which the theater is located, the first slate of programming is all sci-fi, with a particular emphasis on robots. Films include Logan’s Run, District 9, Forbidden Planet, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. (They can’t show RoboCop because of the upcoming 2014 remake.) New films include Elysium and We’re the Millers, which Jason Heid reviewed over on FrontRow. For individual showtimes, go here.
Meanwhile, if you’d like to see a little theater on the cheap(er), Theatre Three begins previews of So Help Me God! tonight. It’s a 7:30 p.m. show, so you won’t miss your bedtime, and it also happens to be the theater’s season opener. The rediscovered comedy paints Broadway as the sort of lawless place where commercial interests trump art and the biggest stars get away with murder (so to speak). So much has changed since Maurine Dallas Watkins penned this in 1929. Watkins is best known for her previous play, Chicago, which you’re probably more familiar with. So Help Me God!, on the other hand, was hamstrung by a little crisis known as the Great Depression and never actually produced until 2009.
If it were me, I’d try the space formerly known as TABC, now reborn as Boxwood Tap & Grill, for drinks and dinner. Over on SideDish, Matt Shelley has pretty pictures of what you can expect to find on the menu.
For more to do tonight, go here.
