Beautiful Festival of American Song
America has left an indelible mark on the world of vocal music, thanks in no small part to composers like George Gershwin and Irving...
Smells Funny
“The nose is the seat of the face!” declares Ulrich (Brandon Murphy), a medieval master plastic surgeon from Vienna, to Gavin (Scott Zenreich), an...
Drag Strip’s Pinter Play
Much has been written about the enigmatic, vexing work of British playwright, screenwriter, director, and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, who died in 2008 at...
Jubilee’s Black Boy Fly: Powerful Drama
Today (Sunday) at 3 p.m. is your last chance to catch Jubilee Theatre’s production of Black Boy Fly, young Jordan E. Cooper’s powerful 40-minute...
Dark Themes
“I think any progressive person has the ability to recognize problems in other parts of the world,” insists Jane (Dana Schultes), an American TV...
TBT’s Swan Lake: Full Bloom
Since taking over Texas Ballet Theater 10 years ago, artistic director Ben Stevenson has presented a wealth of full-length ballets here that he created...
Remembering Bruce Wood
North Texas lost one of its most original choreographers last week. Bruce Wood died in Fort Worth, reportedly of a heart attack and complications...
Blues Breakers
When August Wilson’s scorching drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom made its New York debut in 1985, it was just the second non-musical show authored...
The Other Place: Catharsis
For the most part, contemporary audiences have lost their appetite for tragedy as an art form, not to mention the en masse sharing and...
Christmas Songs
If you think movies are guilty of recycling plots, you should take a look at opera. The art form has been borrowing stories since...
