In an e-mail, Laurel Ruff, manager of the Labyrinth Theatre, has announced that the Richardson-based company has folded. It has canceled the last two shows in its current season, The Fantasticks and the world premiere of Stigma. “The current economic conditions, combined with reduced attendance this fall and continuing economic uncertainty have led the governing [...]
What is Snark? According to New Yorker film critic David Denby, it weakens our public discourse, our intellectual pursuits and even the traditions of American humor. He joined Think host Krys Boyd on Monday to discuss the rise of the phenomenon and his new book of the same name, Snark (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Think [...]
Playwright Tom Sime, who’s also a painter, journalist and former KERA commentator, has been named writer-in-residence at the East Village’s Bleecker Street Theatre, where nine of his plays will receive weekly staged readings starting Monday. Blondie singer Deborah Harry and Ridiculous Theatrical Company veteran Everett Quinton have agreed to appear. The ex-Dallas Morning News staffer [...]
FREE TRIP TO LONDON: Are you headed out to London to catch Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya‘s debut with the English National Opera? Us neither. But there’s good news. Classicaltv.com will broadcast Harth-Bedoya leading the ENO’s production of Puccini’s La boheme at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. An extra-cool feature of the site is [...]
What do Dallasites think about Dallas? Ask an Argentinian. Argentina native Florencia Levy opened her solo show, Commute Portraits, at Centraltrak last Friday night. For the show, she accompanied Dallasites on their daily commutes, recording both spoken commentary and the visual impressions of locals upon their own city. The show is simultaneously a collection of [...]
Parliament, oil over tempura, by Sallie McIllheran Interested in heading out of town to see some art? You can do a lot worse than a road trip to Marfa. And starting Friday, you’ll be able to catch a show from one of Fort Worth’s own. Painter Sallie McIllheran and her photographer husband, Johannes Wunner, will [...]
The Dallas Opera has announced scheduling and casting details for its first season in the new Winspear Opera House. The season will open on Friday, Oct. 23, with a performance of Verdi’s Otello. Also scheduled are Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte (opening on Feb. 12), Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Feb. 19), Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick — a world [...]
February marks Black History Month, and KERA (90.1 FM) has a couple of arts-related specials in the hopper that I want to get the advance word out on: Saturday, Feb. 14, 8-9 p.m.: “A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: The Musical Journey of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr” — From Martin Luther King, Jr.’s childhood piano [...]
The Spindletop oil field, 1903 Bryan Burrough on Think: KERA radio story: Expanded online story: To give some notion of just how big the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, originally was: When it was tapped in 1901, that single gusher tripled American’s entire production of oil overnight. According to author Bryan Burrough, Spindletop and [...]
2008′s Little Bishop Wears the Dream Shirt (gouache and ink on paper) typifies the artist’s style Raymond Uhlir’s triptych at And/Or Gallery is some of the most arresting imagery currently on display in Dallas. Influenced by the Saturday morning cartoons of his childhood and the 18th and 19th century paintings he discovered later, Uhlir’s colorful [...]
