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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Ushering In

The Grand Finale

Opening Notes

Welcome to the Family

Stage

Stage

Illuminating

As the audience files in before the start of Amphibian Stage Production's Gutenberg! The Musical!, the bellow of Broadway legend Ethel Merman charges out...

Glove the Blood

Give theatergoers a knotty plot to unravel, new ideas to understand, complex issues to mull over, and chances are they'll enjoy the mental work...

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...