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To Be or Not to Be … French
While some of William Shakespeare’s other plays have inspired more than one great opera, Hamlet seems to have resisted the operatic treatment through the...
Dog Days Are Here
The stage of W.E. Scott Theatre looked like your typical Middle-American home: nondescript dinner table, disheveled living room, a bedroom. But a closer look...
Sumptuous La Traviata
The only technical glitch in Fort Worth Opera’s opening-night production of La Traviata at Bass Performance Hall was the overhead translating screen. It didn’t...
Red: Creative Blocks
Unlike, say, writers, visual artists can be illuminating to watch at work, which is why so many films and plays are about painters or...
Black Songs Matter
Right now, we all could use a little more African-American righteous anger in our lives. If you don’t believe me, just watch the videos...
Framing Desire: The Big Picture
“Portrait (P. Lappat)” is imposing in both scale and content, with a gaze that’s inescapable. Though it’s the first thing you see when you...
Imbroglio Sextet’s Grace
Cara Pollard’s 30-year career has been a balancing act between sitting in academia and following her restless spirit all over the world. With her...
Jay Wilkinson Versus the World
Jay Wilkinson’s first works of art were inspired by comics but not in a Roy Lichtenstein kind of way.
“I was dyslexic,” Wilkinson said, “so...
Dabbling in Art
Recent exhibits at the Kimbell Art Museum have included works from the Musée d’Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and private collections around the...
It’s Hall a Dream
Casting aside conventional thinking has been the Hall Ensemble’s unofficial mantra since forming seven years ago. In an artform steeped in centuries of tradition,...
