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“I think any progressive person has the ability to recognize problems in other parts of the world,” insists Jane (Dana Schultes), an American TV...
Hard Twist: Brutal, Beautiful Ranch Women
For folks who managed to grow up in cowboy country without learning a thing about ranch life, a hard twist refers to the old-time...
TBT’s Swan Lake: Full Bloom
Since taking over Texas Ballet Theater 10 years ago, artistic director Ben Stevenson has presented a wealth of full-length ballets here that he created...
Remembering Bruce Wood
North Texas lost one of its most original choreographers last week. Bruce Wood died in Fort Worth, reportedly of a heart attack and complications...
Days of Shame
Nobody really knows why a group of white men went on a killing spree in the small East Texas town of Slocum in 1910....
Blues Breakers
When August Wilson’s scorching drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom made its New York debut in 1985, it was just the second non-musical show authored...
The Other Place: Catharsis
For the most part, contemporary audiences have lost their appetite for tragedy as an art form, not to mention the en masse sharing and...
Christmas Songs
If you think movies are guilty of recycling plots, you should take a look at opera. The art form has been borrowing stories since...
Fort Worth Opera Swings into Mozart
The plot for Mozart’s Così fan tutte could easily be mistaken for that of an ’80s sitcom. The maestro and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte...
Partying with Ed Harris at USA Film Festival
Last Sunday’s screening of Frontera at the 2014 USA Film Festival in Dallas was a candid glimpse into a great film and the world...
