Pure Animals Out of Paper
"Everything is a gift of the universe,” wrote the late Buddhist author Ken S. Keyes Jr. Of course, this can be difficult to believe...
Stage West’s Sports Page
It’s been a long time coming for this weekend’s world premiere of Larry Herold’s comedy The Sports Page at Stage West. The playwright wrote...
TBT’s Romeo and Juliet
It’s been a rough five years for arts groups, thanks to a topsy-turvy economy. Texas Ballet Theater has been forced to give up live...
Bear the Predictability
“I’d rather have a bear in my lap than a pregnant liberal!” snaps Kyle (Duke Anderson) to his wife Nan (Taylor Staniforth) after she’s...
Summer Sights and Stages
In the Pleistocene Era (circa 2010), when flip phones were unironic, most museums and theaters essentially took summers off, reserving blockbusters for the fall...
Shoestring Budget
Every time Metropolitan Classical Ballet goes onstage, the Arlington-based, Russian-influenced company dances a fine line between ambition and reality. Co-directors Paul Mejia and Alexander...
Waxing Aimless
Just before last Saturday's performance of The Book of Liz, a Theatre Arlington staffer gave an odd little speech to the audience.
He said something...
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...
Loving Tosca
Fort Worth Opera kicked off its 2012 festival on Saturday at Bass Performance Hall with a performance of Puccini’s Tosca, a three-act work that...
Get Ur Freak On
Vivienne Vermuth has produced burlesque shows in North Texas for 15 years.
She has some thoughts.
“It’s like a slow trainwreck but in a positive way,”...