Fort Worth Opera’s Porgy and Bess Is a Multisensory Treat
There’s merit to the idea that music is a universal language. Cultural references and dialogue weigh heavily on a work’s immediacy and ease of...
Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Next Opus
After returning to the States from an overseas conducting engagement in mid-March, Miguel Harth-Bedoya remembered being shocked that U.S. airports were not testing offboarding...
Black Man + White Woman = ?
Playwright-director Neil LaBute generally comes in one flavor — bitterly misanthropic — but his works can be divided between the nasty/grumpy variety and the...
Mayor Carmen
After the Fort Worth Opera’s board of directors angered classical music fans in February by firing general director Darren Woods (“Aria for Woods,” Feb....
Cliburn Competition: Preliminary Hearings
What is there to say about hearing 30 pianists in four days? I use my experience going to film festivals for this publication to...
Conducting Virtuosity
The 52-year-old Fort Worth Youth Orchestra has played an active role in sending many classical musicians’ careers into orbit, including that of TCU violin...
The Bible: Heretically Hysterical
Bringing back the most popular show in a theater’s 18-year history may sound like a holier-than-thou undertaking, but, to paraphrase the good book, he...
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...
Falling for The Trap
Finding comedy in anxiety is laughably attempted by many, clinched by only a few. In The Trap, British playwright Kieran Lynn’s affinity for dark absurdism goes one...
Just the System
Day-to-day court proceedings rarely rise to sitcom levels of entertainment, but that hasn’t diminished our collective curiosity of the criminal justice system. Voir Dire,...
