Building Upon a Rich Legacy
Visiting her grandparents in Graham, Texas, in the 1980s, Angela Turner Wilson said they would all take road trips to Fort Worth to shop...
Star Over Boise
Idaho-born playwright Samuel D. Hunter is a hot property on the American stage right now, thanks in large part to his most recent Off-Broadway...
Years of the Cat
This might sound odd to say about a person who makes people laugh for a living, but Monna is no nonsense. The Fort Worth-by-Fort...
Knitting Factory
This weekend at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center is the Fifth Annual International Fort Worth Fringe Festival. As part of the event, Elaine...
Lysistrata: Make War Not Love
For most of the second act of Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, most of the men on stage have gigantic, visibly bulging...
The Baker’s Opera
Companionship received its world premiere from Fort Worth Opera last week, and it is easily the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen staged by the...
Room to Breathe
While lecturing to her students about John Coltrane’s seminal 1965 album A Love Supreme, Yazmin Ortiz, a 29-year-old Puerta Rican adjunct professor of music,...
The Little Trio
The rehearsal abruptly paused.
“Does it feel like we’re dragging?” soprano Allison Stanford asked.
“Yes!” pianist Cheryl Lemmons and clarinettist Leslie “Pinkie” Simmons collectively replied.
The trio,...
Falling for The Trap
Finding comedy in anxiety is laughably attempted by many, clinched by only a few. In The Trap, British playwright Kieran Lynn’s affinity for dark absurdism goes one...
Down Deep in the Hollow
What’s red, played, and broken?
The answer to that riddle comes by way of a dozen enigmatic dialogues between two characters trapped in a mine...
