Top Registers
For Jubilee Theatre's current gospel musical, Crowns, set designer Judd Vermillion has turned the back wall of the stage into what looks like a...
November Reign
Stage West’s current production of David Mamet’s acidic political comedy November is the fourth show directed by Dana Schultes, who serves as the company’s...
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...
Bardolatry?
Last Friday night's performance of Twelfth Night proved that Willie's name is still box-office gold. The house was sold out. But were the good...
Not Beloved
The line of dialogue that best addresses the flood of human misery unleashed in Jubilee Theatre's extraordinary production of The Bluest Eye comes early...
Not a Hard Shell
For the first time in years, Texas Ballet Theater's opening performance of the traditional seasonal favorite The Nutcracker last Friday didn't pack the house....
Legs and Tails
Last weekend at Bass Performance Hall, there were many bright spots in Texas Ballet Theater's season-opening performance of The Russian Masters, a repertory program...
Copenhagen Chills Stage West
Every so often, Heisenberg’s 1927 principle of uncertainty –– a foundation of quantum mechanics –– pops up as a theme in art. The Coen...
Amphibian Goes to School
In Amphibian Stage Productions’ slick, antic production of Billy Aronson’s contemporary sex farce The First Day of School, one character frets that it takes...
Almost, Main Street
After last Sunday's matinee performance of Almost, Maine, actor and Theatre Arlington artistic director B.J. Cleveland made a startling announcement to the audience: "We've...
