Memories Are Made of This
Circle Theatre closes its season with a world premiere, and it’s always worth noting when one of our local theater troupes is privileged enough...
Shtick ’Em Up
There's a lot going on right now that we need to pay attention to, and none of it is fun: a shitty economy, a...
Hot Shorts
Depending on how you look at them, Andy Warhol's famous early short films Kiss (1963) and Blow Job (1964) are either cunning scams on...
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...
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...
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...
10 Key Years
When Carla Thompson attended a music competitions conference in early 2012, she did so as the board chairperson of a competition that had lost...
Graceful
Perhaps the best way to describe Fort Worth Opera's production of Angels in America, composer Peter Eötvös and librettist Mari Mezei's adaptation of playwright...
Electricidad: Still Scary
Yvonne Duque first encountered playwright Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad –– a contemporary version of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Electra set in an urban gang milieu ––...
New Heights
The curtain came down on the Fort Worth Opera’s inaugural festival Sunday, and there’s no denying that the past four weeks were heady.
Besides the...
