The Dallas Theatre League (DTL) was the primary sponsor of the annual Leon Rabin Awards, an event celebrating the diversity and excellence of live theatre in Dallas, Texas, USA. The League disbanded in September 2007.
The mission of the Dallas Theatre League was to unite, strengthen and promote the theatre community in the Greater Dallas Area, working on behalf of its conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy and truly democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.
The Dallas Area is one of the largest theatre centers in the United States. The region boasts more emerging theatre companies per capita than almost any other metropolitan area in the U.S., is home to one of the country’s oldest LORT Level Theatres, and the country’s second oldest summer Shakespeare Festival. Some 200 new plays are premiered here each year, some going on to wider success. DTL was founded in 1994 to serve and celebrate this vital artistic community.