Pluck News

Casting news for local plays isn't usually headline-worthy. Unless, that is, the artistic director from one major theater is cast as an actor in a much-anticipated production at another major theater.

The guys hanging out together in Steven Walters' get-down funny play Pluck the Day are old high school buds, now in their 30s and starting to go to seed.

A lot of drinking and heavy thinking can happen on a hot day on a veranda. Two good shows running on Dallas stages right now - The Night of the Iguana at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas and Pluck the Day at Second Thought Theatre - take place on big porches, where characters stand, sit, sweat, loll, fight, eat, dream and, in one play, die.

Special agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are looking for two men suspected of trafficking firearms.

Indoor activity number one: Second Thought Theatre's only Monday night performance of Pluck the Day , a redo of the first play the company ever day.