Arts
Dead Sea Scrolls
No matter your beliefs, ancient history fans should not miss this exhibit.ANTHONY MARIANI
One of the largest, most comprehensive exhibitions of Dead Sea Scroll fragments ever shown, and the largest ever in Texas, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Dead Sea Scrolls & the Bible: Ancient Artifacts, Timel...
Darkness Descends
Amphibian Productions’ Julia Pastrana is solid if light.JIMMY FOWLER
Amphibian Stage Productions has just opened a sparkling new theater space on the Near Southside at Main Street and Vickery Boulevard, and what better way to show it off than with a play staged in total darkness? Leave it to the...
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And XGALLERY
The Austin-based collective Lakes Were Rivers launches a show pairing an original work with a work from Austin’s Harry Ransom Archive. This Saturday, an opening reception will feature an auction to benefit the art publication...
Standing Up for Laughs
Part of the Q Cinema family, It Only Makes Me Laugh is a riot.JIMMY FOWLER
Fort Worth actor Kyle Trentham has a resume that includes theater, film, and TV, most notably shows like Barney, Wishbone, and Walker Texas Ranger. Onstage he recently appeared in the drama The Fifth Sun at Rose Marine Theatre....
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UNT Art GalleryGALLERY
UNT’s retrospective of longtime professor and ceramics artist Elmer Taylor isn’t merely a show of his work. It’s also a look back at his life, replete with photographs, works by his students and mentors, and even some of ...
Hand from the Grave
Circle Theatre’s Ghost-Writer is a tense, taut, and perfectly seasonal treat.JIMMY FOWLER
About midway through Circle Theatre’s tense psychological drama Ghost-Writer, Myra Babbage (Emily Scott Banks), secretary to a renowned novelist, describes her boss’ methods: “Only by changing the facts could he make some...
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Artspace 111GALLERY
Though we featured Artspace 111 here last week, we haven’t talked about any of its openings in a while. On Friday at 6pm, celebrate Loli Kantor’s new show, consisting of photographs depicting the lasting damage from Soviet ...
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Artspace 111GALLERY
This is your last weekend to check out Daniel Blagg’s current show at Artspace 111. The artist has been largely off the radar for three years, but his oil paintings and watercolors show him back on his old turf of depopulated...
Power Trip
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts reeks of avant-garde New York City.ANTHONY MARIANI
No matter how long, notated, and well written an artist’s statement is, his or her art –– to paraphrase Sir Duke –– don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Conjoined black canes hanging from a small, transl...
Brainy Humor
Drag Strip Courage tackles a mashup of The Bard and the undead.JIMMY FOWLER
A lot of theater artists feel an obligation to speak of William Shakespeare in reverent tones, as if performing the words of The Bard is an unquestionably noble enterprise. Actor and director Seth Johnston, who formed the small...