Posts Tagged ‘director’
Great ‘Beauty’
Big TicketTexas Ballet Theater takes a giant leap into the classics with four performances of Tchaikovsky’s colossal Sleeping Beauty this weekend in Bass Performance Hall. Heavy-duty dancing and costly scenic demands create a more lavi...
Politically Incorrect
Man of the Year suffers from dull satire, and then it really goes bad.Kristian Lin
There are many things wrong with Man of the Year, but the basic premise isn’t one of them.
Stark Failure
Kristian LinBetween the dimming of the lights and the opening credits, something happened when I saw the new film version of All the King’s Men. While the screen was showing the studio logos, the movie’s music started up on the soundtr...
Turn of the Screw
StagePlaywright, screenwriter, and tv scribe Richard Dresser once told an interviewer, “I’ve had occasion to work at a series of jobs ranging from a plastics factory where I made G.I. Joe’s thighs … to Hollywood, where I...