BIG NEWS to all my friends. The debut of my AMON! The Ultimate Texan in a public theater in Fort Worth happens Sept. 20, 21, 27, 28 at the Scott Theatre.
Previously, the play enjoyed a successful 17-show run at Artisan Center Theater in Hurst.
The Amon Carter play and its companion book are about the legend who ruled Fort Worth for half a century. This Amon Carter play is my love letter to Fort Worth and all of Texas.
Watch our spectacular drone video here.
Read what the press says about our play here.
In the first half of the 20th century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was one of the most powerful businessmen in the great state of Texas. As owner of the state’s largest newspaper – the Fort Worth Star-Telegram – he created the state’s first radio station WBAP (1922) and first television station WBAP-TV (1948).
Flashy, often impulsive and with only an eighth-grade education, he lured a trillion dollars’ worth of business to his beloved state. He worked to improve living conditions for everyone.
In this Amon Carter play — and book of the same name — Amon tells his story, which is also a story about the growth of Texas.
Former Star-Telegram columnist O.K. Carter says: “It is difficult to find any person, in any city, anywhere, that has had an impact on a community as much as Amon Carter did. Even though he's not there, he was there.”
“Amon Carter really is our Alexander Hamilton. He’s our consequential figure that we’ve forgotten who he is and what he did for us. “
— Dave Lieber
(Photo courtesy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives at University of Texas at Arlington Library Special Collections.)
I am so excited to be a part of this project and to be directing Kelvin Dilks in your amazing play AMON! I have leaned so much about Amon G. Carter and can’t wait to share the experience with audiences. Fort Worth is so lucky to have had Amon G. Carter and what a blessing from you, Dave, to the our city and others that you told this story!
Oh Madame Director, We are going to have so much fun.
Can’t wait to see the show tonight!