Posts Tagged ‘season’
Onward (Yikes) Democracy
StaticThe rain and cold didn’t keep them away. The fact that it was a midterm election didn’t stop them. Not even the mind-numbing confusion caused by a plethora of political commercials casting the candidates as thieves, liars, ...
Scare Season is Here
Big TicketFall can drag here sometimes, either with school starting back up or the weather just not getting as cool as we want. But fall also means the build-up to Halloween, and Fort Worth becomes host to a plethora of spectacular haunts.
Kickoff
Big TicketSeptember is here, so that must mean it’s time for football again. Specifically, it’s time for football at Cowboys Stadium, and with games going on three days this week (see: Monday blurb), the groundskeepers are going to h...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 16 The double bass is called that because it goes an octave below the cello, and in recent decades heavyweight composers such as Elliott Carter, Einojuhani Rautavaara, John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, and Gian Carlo Meno...
Gem of the Ocean Glitters
Mystery and transcendence color Jubilee’s latest production of an August Wilson classic.JIMMY FOWLER
With the current production of Gem of the Ocean, Jubilee Theatre has given the late August Wilson’s lyrical 2002 drama its Southwest premiere. As directed by Akin Babatunde, the play is a big gift box full of historical, spir...
Big Sounds
Big TicketFor centuries, people have yearned to be surrounded and subsumed by music that penetrates to the very soul. The concert hall is one place to do it, but your local movie theater might be almost as good.
TBT Revives The Sleeping Beauty
Texas Ballet Theater’s only slightly marred productions were rousing overall.LEONARD EUREKA
The Sleeping Beauty is a lot for any ballet company to chew on. It includes an enormous cast, many solos, lots of character dances, large ensembles, three changes of elaborate costumes over four acts, crowd scenes galore, and a...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 7 A new season for the Texas Rangers begins, this time with some legitimate hope for several reasons: last year’s impressive finish, the off-season additions of Rich Harden and Vladimir Guerrero, and the excitement that...
The Sleeping Beauty
Big TicketTexas Ballet Theater rounds out its season with four performances of Ben Stevenson’s sumptuous production of The Sleeping Beauty in Bass Performance Hall this weekend.
Students on Stage
Big TicketIt may be August, but if you think the colleges have gone quiet when it comes to performing arts, UNT is going to prove you wrong.