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Where the Wild Things Are
In art, theater, music, literature, film — basically, any artistic discipline — there are themes, and then there are themes.
The fog of war?...
Shoestring Budget
Every time Metropolitan Classical Ballet goes onstage, the Arlington-based, Russian-influenced company dances a fine line between ambition and reality. Co-directors Paul Mejia and Alexander...
Flights of Fancy
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition has sifted through a lot of talent over the years, with most winners falling somewhere between the scholarly...
Damn, Dirty Apes
Never mind the bollocks.
No, seriously. Never mind the bollocks — and the severed limbs, and the homicidal monkeys, and the ugly faces twisted into...
Lost in thought and balletic reverie
To a lot of viewers and critics, the title Lost has become a bad pun on the show itself.
Over the course of the...
A Lonesome Dove and a Yalid
Filmmaker David H. Hickey is an oddity in these parts — he generally avoids making movies about dead teenagers.
Sure, as an actor, he’s open...
Big Shoes to Backfill
Architect Ames Fender’s grandfather is Wyatt C. Hedrick, the man who’s most responsible for the way that much of Fort Worth looks — he...
Rooting for Roots
What an odd book — fascinating at times yet frustrating in its lack of organization and purpose.
The title, True to the Roots: Americana...
Women’s Lib-ido
With their fervent and cunning production of Steve Martin’s adaptation The Underpants, Theatre Arlington and director B.J. Cleveland have done something unexpected — reminded...
A Dream Not Deferred
Ed Smith, the man who has replaced the late Rudy Eastman as artistic director of Jubilee Theatre, has taught graduate level theater courses in...
