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Chinese Opera
Big TicketFort Worth opera lovers haven’t had it easy the last few months. The local opera company has been in hibernation all season and won’t come out until the big festival in the summer. Meanwhile, the New York’s Metropolitan O...
Lord of the Wings
Big TicketWhen it came out in 1980, Airplane! was considered frenetically paced for a comedy film.
Valet Fever
Big TicketP.G. Wodehouse spent almost 60 years of his long life writing about the comic misadventures of Bertie Wooster, the bumbling young English scion of privilege, and his unflappable valet Jeeves, who was always pulling Bertie out o...
Klaatu Barada Nikto
Big TicketWhile the 1950s produced great science-fiction movies such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, many people associate the decade’s sci-fi with the films of Edward Wood — dreadful special effects, hilariously stilted dialogue,...
Lots of Plots
Big TicketThe KinoMonda film series at TCU does something unprecedented this Wednesday. The organizer is presenting a double bill of movies from across the Atlantic, markedly different in tone but both containing multitudes of characters...
Another Chest-Nut on the Open Fire
Big TicketMetropolitan Classical Ballet’s Russian version of The Nutcracker is the second major production of the holiday classic to come our way. The other is Texas Ballet Theater’s, a Royal Ballet-inspired affair at Bass Performanc...
Fairies and Feet
Leonard EurekaDecember is Nutcracker time, and right on schedule, Texas Ballet Theater presents three weekends of the popular Christmas classic, beginning Friday in Bass Performance Hall. Artistic director Ben Stevenson inherited the luxurio...
Reading T Leaves
Big TicketBy now, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens has become so overexposed that even the people bashing him have grown tiresome. (Honestly, if Night & Day comes across another Skip Bayless column calling him “Terrible ...
Bagatelles
Big TicketOur local orchestras combine their efforts this week to once again make Tarrant and Denton counties the place for some of the most stimulating classical music performances in the southwest. We at Night & Day hereby present...
Balletic Summit
Big TicketThis week, Metropolitan Classical Ballet switches from Russian to American dance. From exploring the Bolshoi tradition in Creation of the World last time around, the company now tries on the choreography of George Balanchine an...