Advisories - Dallas Theater Center

Below are content and language advisories for the plays in Dallas Theater Center’s 2025-2026 season, INCLUDING SPOILERS. DTC acknowledges that advisories regarding content and subject matter can be useful to patrons.

These advisories are a best-effort on the part of DTC to supply our patrons with information that may aid their experience at the theatre, as it relates to the script and production.
If you have any questions or concerns about content, age appropriateness, or stage effects that might influence your ability to attend or enjoy a production, please contact the Box Office at ticketing@dallastheatercenter.org or 214.522.8499

Noises Off

Rating: PG-13

Content Warning: Contains mild profanity; some innuendo and double entendres related to the characters’ romantic entanglements; bawdy physical comedy moments including characters in their underwear, and one moment involving a comical suggestion of intercourse usually played for farcical humor rather than explicit effect.

Language:

  • 3 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘fuck’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘damn’
  • 1 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘bastard’

A Christmas Carol

Rating: PG

Content Note: The scenes featuring the Ghost of Jacob Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Future include loud sound effects, flashing lights and theatrical smoke, which can be startling or scary.

Fat Ham

Rating: R

Content Note: Some moments of suggestive dancing at a backyard party; onstage expressions of queer romance involving a kiss; descriptions of murder, violence, incarceration, military PTSD, and suicidal ideation; use of homophobic language and attitudes; audio of pornographic video; several acts of onstage violence.

Language:

  • 19 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘ass’
  • 13 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘fuck’
  • 10 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘n*****.’
  • 9 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘shit’
  • 4 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘damn’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘bitch’

Where We Stand

Rating: PG

Ragtime

Rating: PG-13

Content Note: There are words utilized in the production that may seem inappropriate or potentially offensive, but are used to depict the racial and social tension of early 20th century America; brief moments of violence and a suggestion of child abuse and exploitation.

Language:

  • 2 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘ass’
  • 9 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘n*****.’
  • 1 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘shit’
  • 9 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘damn’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘bitch’
  • 4 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘hell’
  • 3 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘bastard’
  • 3 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘Cracker’
  • 1 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘Herzog’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘Pollack’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘Kike’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘Kraut’
  • 2 occurrences and/or variations of the word ‘Mick’

Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem

Rating: R

Content Note: Profanity and strong adult language; simulated use of and discussion about drugs and their paraphernalia.

Language:

  • 5 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘n*****’
  • 24 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘ass’
  • 20 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘hell’
  • 35 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘damn’
  • 80 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘shit’
  • 2 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘pussy’
  • 5 occurrence and/or variations of the word ‘fuck’