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On the Brink
The health of a city’s performing arts scene can broadly be measured by how well its orchestra is funded. Managing the large ensembles requires...
In Gaffes We Trust
Every time I see a Tarrant County tax statement — specifically of the variety I have to pay — it irritates me but probably...
Gorgeous María
The Fort Worth Opera Festival kicked off last Friday with a ravishing performance.
The first time María de Buenos Aires appeared in Fort Worth, it...
Fort Worth Opera’s Brief Encounters Shine
Fort Worth audiences have come to expect contemporary opera selections as an almost accepted part of the company’s annual music festival. They’ve also come...
Finding Mañanaland
“A lot of people think ‘mañana’ means tomorrow, but really it means ‘just not today,’ ” Michelle Kirk told me recently.
Kirk, cofounder of Fort...
Seeing Red
What’s not black or white but splattering red all over Maverick territory? At Theatre Arlington, John Lang’s Tony-Award winning Red has been distilled for...
Out of Focus
There is a distinct whiff of sweetness in the air as you enter Fort Works Art. It is coming from Fabiola Valenzuela’s floor sculpture...
The Skin We Live In
In a city where artists can have a difficult time achieving professional advancement or become “career artists,” Fabiola Valenzuela may be upending that trend....
Blessed Wood
Last year, while Stickman – a short film about a homeless Dallas man who found fame carving walking sticks – was showing on the...
Brittany Ransom’s “Well, Real Estate Is Always Good as Far as...
Technology has had something of a rough week, so perhaps now is the time for Humanizing the Digital, Texas Woman’s University’s new show of...
