Arts
FWSO’s America
Inspiring music rang through Bass Hall last weekend.LEONARD EUREKA
Last weekend in Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presented its second American Festival, but if the company was expecting an attendance repeat of last year’s successful, inaugural festival, maestro Miguel ...
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UNT Art GalleryGALLERY
Another school year starts this weekend and so too do the art shows at UNT. Three of them open in the span of eight days, and this Thursday evening you can catch the opening reception for Contemplating Limits, the show at UNT A...
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Casa MañanaGALLERY
How appropriate that a music-themed art show should be up at Casa Mañana, of all the venues here. Leigh Ann Williams uses live music from various bands as inspiration for her paintings and sculpture. Musical Vibrations, thru S...
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UNT on the SquareGALLERY
This week is your last chance to see On My Own Time, a show of artwork by UNT faculty and staff. Not only are professors taking part in the exhibit, but university employees like construction manager John Flippin also are. The ...
The Bard in Texas
Pantagleize funnels Shakespeare through twang and old-timey music.JIMMY FOWLER
A Midsummer Night’s Dream has long been the favorite Shakespeare play of Violet O’Valle, founder and artistic director of Pantagleize Theatre. She’d never considered directing a production of it, however, until she heard ...
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Grapevine Convention CenterGALLERY
Movies have always been besotted with the romance of trains, and photographer James P. Bell pays tribute to this tradition by taking pictures of trains depicted in famous films. His exhibit opens this weekend at Grapevine Conve...
Amphibian Metamorphosis
A “lost” Kafka script is brought to life in the theater company’s latest.JIMMY FOWLER
The adjective “Kafkaesque” gets tossed around a lot, but rarely has it applied more literally than in The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck’s sly show business comedy that’s currently receiving a tart and appealing production ...
West of Normal?
What the Butler Saw was a lot of sexual freedom, according to Stage West.JIMMY FOWLER
Comic playwright Joe Orton wrote with an agenda, and he didn’t try to hide it. As a gay man who’d been marginalized by British laws and the medical profession’s attitudes toward homosexuality in the 1950s and ’60s, he s...
Firehouse Art Gallery
GALLERYJ. Preston Trice’s fascination with the occult led him to create a series of 78 paintings inspired by tarot cards. The paintings are now available as a tarot deck at Firehouse Art Gallery, which hosts a reception for the arti...
More than One Square Mile
A Fort Worth filmmaking team graduates to the big leagues.ZACK SHLACHTER
Growing up in small-town East Texas, Betsy Crum watched a lot of television. And like many who were glued to the tube at an impressionable age, she was confused by the discrepancy between the lives she saw portrayed onscreen an...