Arts
Adaptation
StageThere’s an old maxim that, in the food chain that is the so-called Hollywood system, the craft services people rank higher than the screenwriters, and not just because craft services such as on-set caterers actually provide f...
The Last Great Places of Texas
GalleryThe Nature Conservancy of Texas is an organization that protects wildlife and wildlife habitat in our state.
New Heights
Condensing an entire season into a four-week festival may help put FWO on the international map.Stage
The curtain came down on the Fort Worth Opera’s inaugural festival Sunday, and there’s no denying that the past four weeks were heady.
Found Objects
GalleryThere’s still one weekend left to catch two of the shows at Fort Worth Community Arts Center.
Mad Margot
A new opera made for a note-filled and notable weekend.Stage
Even in the most opera-crazed cities on earth — New York, London, Milan, Vienna — the world premiere of a new full-length opera is not something that happens every week.
Shapes and Light
GalleryThis weekend is your last chance to catch the gallery show at Rose Marine Theater
Holy Water
Though more like a rehearsal than a finished performance, FWO’s production of Rossini’s Petite Mass Solennelle offered sparkling musicality.Stage
A performance last Saturday of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle was a change of pace from the traditional fare that makes up the bulk of the current Fort Worth Opera festival.
Memoir of a Geisha
Fort Worth Opera’s Madame Butterfly falls short, but has some fantastic pieces.Stage
The wait is over. It’s been 14 months since we’ve staged an opera,” said Fort Worth Opera director Darren Keith Woods, who could scarcely contain himself. “I’m so excited!” he burst out.
The Art of the Botanical
GalleryFirehouse Gallery’s show has a title long enough to take up all of this space, so we’ll just tell you that it’s heavy on realistically rendered images of nature (mostly flowers) in various media by a long list of artists.
True Grit
As a forthcoming Modern exhibit indicates, there’s little middle ground in contemporary art today.Kultur
Next month, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth mounts a solo exhibit by Ron Mueck, the Australian artist whose hyper-realist figurative sculptures come about as close to defining contemporary art’s purpose as possible.