Arts
Galery: Fort Worth Community Arts Center
GALLERYThe reception at FWCAC at 6pm this Friday evening will be like having Gallery Night in a single venue. That’s because the center’s new show contains pieces from galleries that are members of Fort Worth Art Dealers Associati...
“Mistakes Were Made” at Circle
Jimmy FowlerCircle Theatre’s area premiere of Mistakes Were Made will close this Saturday (June 30). Craig Wright’s comedy about a New York stage producer trying to salvage his professional and personal life with an ill-conceived Broad...
Pounds of Flesh
TCU’s Trinity Shakespeare Festival is back, tackling a controversial character.JIMMY FOWLER
New York-based stage director Stephen Fried has previously helmed two productions for Texas Christian University’s annual summer Trinity Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing. He’s back this year with a v...
Gallery: Casa Manana
Ring of FireGALLERY
The Johnny Cash musical may be gone from Casa Mañana, but the Man in Black still prowls the halls. That’s because the theater’s gallery is continuing to exhibit various works inspired by Johnny Cash’s life and music. &nb...
High Voltage
GALLERYPainter John Holt Smith enlarges photographs until they’re abstract bands of color and then renders the results on aluminum panels. His “Oculus” series does this to pictures of human eyes, turning them into concentric ban...
A Newbie Night at the Opera
Hannibal Lecter and Transformers: looking at opera through fresh eyes.Anthony Mariani
I liked Fort Worth Opera’s Tosca so much I made my friends go see it. I didn’t really make them go, but I did talk two rock musicians and a Fort Worth Weekly sales rep into humoring me. They didn’t all turn into overnight...
Gallery
Fort Worth WeeklyThis Friday you can attend the opening receptions of two new shows at the Center for Visual Arts in Denton. Besides a group exhibition of wood pieces, the venue is showing Cat Snapp’s book and box structures, which you are in...
Gallery
GalleryWatercolor doesn’t have to be limited to paintings, as the new exhibit at UNT on the Square cheekily entitled H2OHUE/UNT demonstrates. This show has 3D works and film that are rendered in watercolor as well.
Geography, Class
Mark Smith’s abstracted panoramas are drawn from nature and technology.JIMMY FOWLER
Painter Mark Smith, 60, came by his love of the natural world early. As a kid, he spent equal time in the countryside near Denton and in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, in a little house on a high plateau near the eastern edge of the R...
Lysistrata: Make War Not Love
Fort Worth Opera puts on local theater’s best (non)sex comedy.KRISTIAN LIN
For most of the second act of Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, most of the men on stage have gigantic, visibly bulging erections. That’s the first thing you need to know about this opera version of Aristophanes...