Breaking the Chains
’Tis the season for local theaters to cash in on holiday cheer with appropriately themed crowd-pleasers, filling their houses with happy throngs craving the...
The Decade Onstage
This list of 10 great shows doesn't pretend to be anything like a comprehensive critical overview of Fort Worth theater in the '00s. I've...
North Texas Giving Day is Sept 18
As you’ve probably heard from various media outlets, tomorrow (Thu Sept 18) is 2014 North Texas Giving Day, the sixth annual donations event that...
Case Brothers Celebrate 50 Years of Music
The Case brothers, Johnny and Jerry, have been making jazz and Western Swing –– though mostly jazz and sometimes together –– for 50 years....
Celebrating Black Excellence
Fort Worth has a long and uneven history of reflecting Black culture through the fine and cultural arts. Jubilee Theatre has been a theatrical...
The Piano in the Piano
The Van Cliburn Foundation took first dibs at inaugurating the handsome recital auditorium in the Kimbell Art Museum’s new Renzo Piano Pavilion last week,...
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...
Shall We Dance? And More?
Since 2000, Broadway has enjoyed a steady ascent of new musicals, most of which boast original orchestral scores. An American in Paris is a...
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...
TBT’s Giselle: New Heights
Giselle, a Romantic ballet from the 1840s, travels from happiness to tragedy to a redemptive finale, leaving you moved and glowing rather than exhilarated...
