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    Alley Theatre Favorite

    A true Southern lady, Dixie Carter is dead at 70

    Clifford Pugh
    Apr 10, 2010 | 11:21 pm
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    • Dixie Carter starred with husband Hal Holbrook in the Alley Theatre productionof "Be My Baby" in 2005

    When Designing Women was a big TV hit in the late '80s and early '90s, everyone loved Delta Burke, who played the sassy interior designer Suzanne Sugarbaker. But I was partial to Dixie Carter, who played her sister, Julia, the head of an Atlanta design firm. Carter's character was strong-willed but respectful of Southern mores, using a well-placed quip and an arched eyebrow to make her point. She was smart and sexy and funny but always a lady. She embodied the Southern women I knew growing up near Memphis, which coincidentally was where Carter, a west Tennessee native, got her start in show business.

    And she was a good actress, too.

    Carter died Saturday in Houston, where she was being treated for endometrial cancer. She was 70.

    Carter and her husband, Hal Holbrook, were favorites at the Alley Theater. They appeared together in the world premiere of the Ken Ludwig play, Be My Baby, in 2005. Two years later Carter starred in the Alley production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Last year, the couple were honorary chairs at a "roast and toast" fundraiser to celebrate Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd's 20th year with the Houston theater company.

    In program notes for the production of Be My Baby, Ludwig recalled that Holbrook and Carter got involved with his play after he met Holbrook at an Alley fundraiser in 2004. He sent a copy of the play to Holbrook, who agreed to star.

    "We began talking about who should play the woman’s role opposite him," Ludwig wrote. "Needless to say, his wife Dixie Carter is marvelous, and I desperately wanted her to do the part. So I suggested, delicately, that – with his permission – my agent could overnight a copy of the script to Dixie, with the message that she shouldn’t feel obligated to even read it."

    And, he said, “Well, we can do that. Or, I can walk across the room and hand it to her.” About two hours later, the phone rings and Dixie says, “Ken, I love this play. I’ll do the part.” It was music to my ears."

    The Tennessee native often portrayed independent Southern women in theater and television. She played recurring roles in the sitcoms Different Strokes and Filthy Rich in the '80s before starring in Designing Women, which ran from 1986 to1993. In 2007, Carter was nominated for an Emmy for a seven-episode guest stint on Desperate Housewives.

    She met Holbrook in 1980 while making the TV movie, The Killing of Randy Webster. They married in 1984. The couple starred together in her final project, the 2009 independent film That Evening Sun, shot in Tennessee and based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay.

    "This has been a terrible blow to our family,” Holbrook said in a statement. “We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy.”

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    Concert News

    '80s legends The B-52s and Devo team up for fall tour stop in Houston

    Alex Bentley
    Jun 16, 2025 | 11:00 am
    The B-52s and Devo
    Photo by Mary Ellen Matthews
    The B-52s and Devo will play in The Woodlands on November 2.

    Fans of '80s music will get to unite for a night of nostalgia during The B-52s and Devo's joint Cosmic De-Evolution Tour, a co-headlining run that will come to The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on Sunday, November 2.

    The tour, which is serving as both bands’ continuing concert farewells, will travel to 11 cities, starting in Toronto on September 24. The journey will end with two dates in Texas, including Austin on November 1.

    Lene Lovich will serve as opening act.

    The B-52s — led by original co-founders Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Cindy Wilson — kicked off their extended goodbye run back in 2022. The band, which is best known for hits like "Love Shack" and "Roam" — also has a documentary and their first official book in the works.

    Devo is fronted by three of their original members: Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerald Casale, and Bob Mothersbaugh. In 2023, the fellow New Wave icons, known for songs like “Whip It” and “Uncontrollable Urge,” kicked off their own farewell tour, 50 Years of De-Evolution, paired with a compilation album of the same name.

    Tickets for the tour will be available starting with CITI and AMEX presales beginning on Monday, June 16. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning on Friday June 20 at 10 am at LiveNation.com.

    COSMIC DE-EVOLUTION TOUR DATES 2025

    • 9/24 - Toronto, ONT @ Budweiser Stage
    • 9/25 - Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
    • 10/2 - Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center
    • 10/4 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
    • 10/5 - Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
    • 10/16 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
    • 10/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
    • 10/24 - Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
    • 10/25 - Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
    • 11/1 - Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater
    • 11/2 - Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sponsored by Huntsman
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