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Figaro into Three Decembers

The Fort Worth Opera Festival marches on with two more superb productions.
Leonard Eureka and Anthony Mariani
Fort Worth Opera general director Darren Woods has a leg up in finding fresh young talent; since he serves off-season on the jury for the Metropolitan Opera’s regional auditions and directs a summer opera workshop for young s...


Soprano Carter Scott reprised her 2005 role as Floria Tosca in Fort Worth Opera’s spellbinding new production of the Puccini classic.

Loving Tosca

Fort Worth Opera begins its annual festival with a cannon shot.
Anthony Mariani
Fort Worth Opera kicked off its 2012 festival on Saturday at Bass Performance Hall with a performance of Puccini’s Tosca, a three-act work that epitomizes grand opera: lots of romance, politics, art, violence, and death. And ...



Soprano Carter Scott stars as Tosca, with tenor Roger Honeywell as Cavaradossi (left) and baritone Michael Chioldi as Scarpia, in Fort Worth Opera’s production of the Puccini classic.

Opera Festival Time

The annual Fort Worth Opera Festival is here, loud and clear.
LEONARD EUREKA
Good ideas don’t always translate into success, but Fort Worth Opera’s festival format, alternating performances of four productions in a month-long residency, mostly at Bass Performance Hall, has been a bell ringer from th...


Michael Bane’s “xxx”

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Artspace 111
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Making us doubt what we see is a centuries-old tradition in Western art, and Michael Bane carries that on in his solo show at Artspace 111, dedicated to paintings in the trompe l’oeil style. (That’s French for “to trick t...



Meg MacCary and Bradley Campbell star as the titular gossips in Amphibian Stage Productions’ Mr. & Mrs. Fitch.

Us, Weekly

The scene is still the same in the ’Phibs stargazing current production.
JIMMY FOWLER
When Douglas Carter Beane’s comedy Mr. & Mrs. Fitch made its off-Broadway debut in 2010, New York critics were almost universally harsh in their condemnations of it. Beane is a much-loved playwright and screenwriter in th...


Megan Davis McConnell’s “xxx”

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Arts Fifth Avenue
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Arts Fifth Avenue opens a photography show this weekend that features Mary Rabalais Collins’ digitally manipulated photographs of motion, Michael Zukerman’s nature photographs, and Megan Davis McConnell’s puckishly humoro...



Jim Malone’s “Meteor Shower”

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Artspace 111
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The old Western theme of wide open spaces gets an airing in Artspace 111’s current exhibition, Sky Blue Sky, featuring 50 works in various media that give a plentiful view of the sky. You’ll have to hurry to catch this one,...


“B Hall” is Brackenridge Hall, a dorm on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Many famous Texans, including former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and university president Harry Benedict, lived there. Though the hall has long since been razed, fascination with its residents, especially its famous residents, is still strong. In the tradition of B Hall, dormmates stitched their names into each other’s pillows. “It sounds kinda strange now,” Byrd IV said, “but it was tradition.” The photograph was taken in 1905 by Byrd Jr.

UT Acquires Four Byrds

A photo from each of the Williams generations lands in the esteemed Ransom Center.
Anthony Mariani
Fort Worth photographer and Fort Worth Weekly contributor Byrd Williams IV represents the fourth generation in a family of professional photographers dating back to the turn of the 20th century. (Each photographer has been name...



Jenny Thurman and Todd Hart star as the formerly married singing duo Pete ’n’ Keely in Theatre Arlington’s current production.

Reunited

Pete ’n’ Keely get back together to remain relevant in Theatre Arlington’s current production.
JIMMY FOWLER
Todd Hart, executive producer of Theatre Arlington, didn’t have to do much prep work for directing and co-starring in Pete ’n’ Keely, the biting Off-Broadway musical comedy about a pair of a middle-aged entertainers whose...


Janet Morrow’s “deaf with a little d”

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The Gallery at UTA
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Interplay is the name of the game at UTA’s MFA exhibit. The works on display here involve the interaction of film or video, visual communication, and intermedia studio art. The opening date was last week, but the reception is...