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Brains and Brawn
Last Saturday night at Bass Performance Hall, during the final scene of Fort Worth Opera's production of Of Mice and Men, I got a...
Absolutely Fabulous
You couldn't have asked for bigger contrast than the Fort Worth Opera Festival's opening in Bass Performance Hall last weekend.
Puccini's 1926 blockbuster Turandot, with...
Graceful
Perhaps the best way to describe Fort Worth Opera's production of Angels in America, composer Peter Eötvös and librettist Mari Mezei's adaptation of playwright...
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...
Fly By Night
Not long after he took over Texas Ballet Theater five years ago, director Ben Stevenson produced Dracula.
The main difference between then and now is...
Top Registers
For Jubilee Theatre's current gospel musical, Crowns, set designer Judd Vermillion has turned the back wall of the stage into what looks like a...
By Foote
The program for Fort Worth Theatre's current revival of The Trip to Bountiful mentions at least three times that the city's 53-year-old stage institution...
Dying with Dignity
There's no need for issuing "spoiler alerts" with a play titled A Lesson Before Dying.
Just a few minutes into the opening scene of Jubilee...
A Turn (and Jump) for the Better
From a humble American beginning at the San Francisco Ballet under war-rationing restrictions in 1944, The Nutcracker has become a national Christmas tradition, performed...
Burning Brightly
I’ve been a theater critic for about a dozen years now, and I’ve never heard anyone say, “I can’t wait to see that show!...
