AMON! The Ultimate Texan, which one critic called a hit “as big as Texas,” celebrates the man who owned the Star-Telegram, WBAP radio and NBC5.

The award-winning play about Amon “Mr. Fort Worth” Carter has now celebrated its 51st performance. As we embark on a statewide #AmonOnTour check here for details. Tell your friends!

“Hooray for Fort Worth and Weeessst Texas!”

Winner of Outstanding New Work by a Local Playwright - 2020

AMON! The Ultimate Texan, which one critic called a hit “as big as Texas,” celebrates the man who owned the Star-Telegram, WBAP radio and NBC5.

Carter famously didn’t like Dallas, which provides a comedic backdrop for the play.

Since its 2019 premiere, AMON! has been performed 52 times in six Texas cities.

But, as would have been Amon’s wish, the play has never been seen in the city of Dallas, hence the headline for this announcement: “Still, not in Dallas!”

Bobbie Wygant of NBC5: “Extraordinary performance. Extremely moving.”

Fort Worth Weekly: “Yes, there’s a play about Amon Carter, and you should go see it.”

Dallas Observer: “Dilks took audience members on an animated, funny and sometimes emotional ride through time.”

Fort Worth Business Press: “A hit play. A damned entertaining love letter to Fort Worth.”

Kelvin Dilks, a retired teacher and seven-year member of the Birdville school board, returns as Amon. Dilks originated the role and has starred in every one of the 52 shows.

“The more he does it, the more he becomes Amon Carter,” said playwright and Dallas Morning News Watchdog columnist Dave Lieber, who wrote the play. “It’s uncanny.”

“Amon G. Carter, naked ladies and TCU Library's 'buried treasure.”

At a fundraiser for TCU Library's Special Collections, Dave Lieber, the playwright behind the hit play AMON! The Ultimate Texan addressed a high-powered audience, hoping to honor the hard-working librarians who helped him write the play and the companion book.

These librarians maintain the vast Amon Carter collection, and Lieber had spent months poring over its 444 boxes of materials to research his work...

DAVE LIEBER has worked as a Texas newspaper columnist for 29 years – first at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and now at The Dallas Morning News where he writes the twice-weekly investigative “Watchdog” column. The author of nine books, Dave is also a certified professional speaker, one of only a thousand in the world. He specializes in teaching strategic storytelling to businesses, groups and individuals.

AMON! The Ultimate Texan is his first play.

His second play is PEROT! American Patriot. (PerotBook.com).

Meet Connie Sanchez, the director who brought AMON! to the stage.

Director Connie Sanchez combines her love of teaching and directing to bring Amon “Mr. Fort Worth” Carter back to life.

When Amon G. Carter Sr. visited Ireland, he was hailed as “the mighty Carter, son of the Lone Star State.” Quite fitting.

Texas is what it is today – a leader in industry, especially aviation – in part because of the work Carter did in the first half of the 20th century. A one-man economic development department for Fort Worth and vast West Texas, Carter is credited with luring a trillion dollars’ worth of businesses to his beloved state.

Flashy, excessive, impulsive and powerful, the pretend-cowboy manipulated presidents with gifts and hobnobbed with celebrities. At every turn, he fought arch-rival Dallas.

In this book, a companion to the new theatrical production of the same name, Amon Carter tells how he built one of the great media empires of the land – and what he did with it. The book also presents 100 classic photographs from the era that bring Amon’s words to life.