For a humpday doubleheader, I’d recommend Theatre Three’s Hooky Matinee of the world premiere comedy The Trade: A Tragedy in Four Quarters, just before the Dallas Mavericks begin their new season Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs. Smartly outrageous, the play and the season opening game would be an emotionally stimulating day for Mavs fans, but the T3 show was a rambunctious joyride for any theater and sportsball fan. Director Matt Lyle’s and Matt Coleman’s original play was a brilliant, comic masterpiece that captured the grief and loss felt in Dallas over the team’s controversial trade of star player and fan favorite, Luka Dončić and processed it through laughter.

Personally, I love my Mavs but I’m also not a diehard. I shed tears of joy when they won their FIRST championshi

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