Posts Tagged ‘show’
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 15 Having served as prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003, the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien comes to TCU to discuss world affairs as part of the Vicente Fox Forum. His retirement hasn’t been uneventful; a few ...
Stage West’s Sports Page
The media are the messages in a first-time playwright’s take on sports reporting.JIMMY FOWLER
It’s been a long time coming for this weekend’s world premiere of Larry Herold’s comedy The Sports Page at Stage West. The playwright wrote the first version of his script — about a young reporter witnessing cultural an...
The Gallery at UTA
GalleryThe extreme versatility of paint as a medium is showcased in UTA’s current show.
American Vistas
Big TicketThis week two of Fort Worth’s major art museums open shows against each other, and they offer sharply different views of our nation’s history.
M.I.A. Didn’t Need Finger To Stand Out
Jeff PrinceThe finger heard ’round the world escaped me — I didn’t notice British rapper M.I.A. flipping the bird while performing with Madonna during the Super Bowl halftime show. I was focused on the fact that Madonna&...
Pantagleize’s Dead Awaken
Ibsen is at his most surreal in the Fort Worth company’s latest.JIMMY FOWLER
It’s hard to overestimate the influence of 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen on theater and, in particular, the modern English-speaking stage. With plays like A Doll’s House, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the Peopl...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Red Tails (PG-13) Terrence Howard headlines this historical drama about a squad of African-American fighter pilots struggling for the chance to prove themselves in combat during World War II. Also with Cuba Gooding Jr....
Joe’s back in town
Two decades at Jubilee have made Joe Rogers’ return to jazz even sweeter.JIMMY FOWLER Photos by Vishal Malhotra
On a cool Saturday night last November, pianist and composer Joe Rogers played an intimate, sold-out set at the Southside arts center Arts Fifth Avenue. At 58, the bearded, curly-headed Rogers still looked impishly youthful. At...
Where Is My John Wayne?
Big TicketThe Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is holding an unusual sort of film retrospective while the Stock Show is going on. The Lone Star Western Film Series is showing John Wayne movies on Sundays, but rather than focus on...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: In the Land of Blood and Honey (R) Angelina Jolie’s first film as writer-director is this English-language war film about a Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) and a Muslim artist (Zara Marjanovic) whose romance is transf...