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Drenched in Pathos
Emotional release raineth all over the stage at Circle Theatre, where the company ushers in its 37th season with newly named executive director Tim...
Conducting Virtuosity
The 52-year-old Fort Worth Youth Orchestra has played an active role in sending many classical musicians’ careers into orbit, including that of TCU violin...
White Christmas: Winter Wonderland
Only a few thousand Texans caught a glimpse of the snow showers that fell in November. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas debuted at Bass Performance...
Life Sucks: Heavy Levity
Watching Russian drama can sometimes feel like lead weights dragging you to the bottom of a dark sea floor. The deeper you sink, the...
She Stoops Don’t Stop
Asking a Texan to act with a British accent for two hours is like prodding a knight to swim the Rio Grande in a...
TBT’s Beauty and the Beast Thrills
The story of beauty and the beast has been around for quite a while. Scholars trace its beginnings to ancient Rome. The first modern...
The Bible: Heretically Hysterical
Bringing back the most popular show in a theater’s 18-year history may sound like a holier-than-thou undertaking, but, to paraphrase the good book, he...
Final Examinations
Like its predecessors, the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition proved to be a grueling and exhilarating run, giving music fans 17 days’ worth...
Cliburn Competition: Preliminary Hearings
What is there to say about hearing 30 pianists in four days? I use my experience going to film festivals for this publication to...
Backlot Bromancing
A new season cometh and bringeth with it a transition away from the dark comedies of winter to the lighter-feeling dramas of summer. Playing...
