HIGH-CLASS LAUGHS: Theatre Three kicked off its 2012-13 season last night with Present Laughter. In the Noel Coward comedy, an actor prepares for a tour while dealing with a series of farcical probems. To whet your appetite for the show, the theater has put together this promo video. (Just a friendly FYI – there’s a little PG-13ish language in there.) We’ll round up the reviews as they trickle in.

A COMPLEX ISSUE: The future of the proposed Las Colinas Entertainment complex is as shaky as ever. That’s because the City of Irving allowed its contract with developer Las Colinas Group to expire on Monday. Now dallasnews.com reports the city could be on the business end of a lawsuit.

QUOTABLE: “As it turned out, we didn’t have hits. We had a career. We got what we wished for. We’ve never had our moment in the sun. Maybe our so-called moment is 20 years of moments in the partial shade. That works for me.”

– Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller, in an interview with The New York Times about the 15th anniversary of To Far to Care. The band will play the album front to back at House of Blues on Aug. 24.