Red: Creative Blocks
Unlike, say, writers, visual artists can be illuminating to watch at work, which is why so many films and plays are about painters or...
TBT’s Nutcracker Arrives
December is Nutcracker time, and Texas Ballet Theater brings its big, plush production to Bass Performance Hall on Friday for a two-week run. Ballet...
Brainy Humor
A lot of theater artists feel an obligation to speak of William Shakespeare in reverent tones, as if performing the words of The Bard...
Bank Job: Laughs and Loot
“Do you think we’ll be assigned the same prison cell?” a terrified Russell (Leicester Landon) asks his brother and criminal accomplice Tracey (Marshall York)...
Glossed Over
Americans love the idea of the “self-made man,” or of the woman who takes charge of her life and becomes the person she was...
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...
Hell to the Chief?
It’s assumed that the majority of regular theatergoers lean a little bit to the left politically. If that’s true, then the myriad presidential misdeeds...
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...
Spelling Bee Scores
The word “cartoonish” is typically used as an insult, but it describes all the best qualities of Theatre Arlington’s tearfully funny staging of The...
Ushering In
Kiba Walker has done community events in Fort Worth before but never a theater show. The nonbinary actor says they love working with Circle...
