ALL ARTS DISTRICT, ALL THE TIME: The Dallas Morning News jumped into its Arts District coverage in earnest over the weekend, letting David Dillon loose on the two new buildings. With that task accomplished, he then took a step back to provide us with a brief history of the District. The takeaway from both pieces, [...]
IT DOES? Texans made their fortunes with oil, but all we need to live for the next three weeks are grease, batter and sugar. The Winter family has been helping us with their funnel cakes for 40 years. The State Fair opens today. HE WILL? In what sounds like something from a Bruce Willis movie, [...]
Jonathan Moscone, who served as associate director at the Dallas Theater Center under Richard Hamburger, has launched a full-scale renovation of the California Shakespeare Theater, which he has led for nine years. This should sound familiar: The CST first has to demolish the “temporary” buildings it has been using for 20 years. The $8.2 million [...]
– and declares it cool. The Optimus Prime of theaters. ‘Course, they do get a few things ever so slightly screwy — implying that the Theater Center’s old Arts District Theater (“the Shed”) was torn down, for instance, without plans for the Wyly already fully in place. And that the Wyly can switch configurations in [...]
Sir Norman Foster — designer of the Winspear Opera House, the subject of an exhibition opening this Saturday at the Nasher and soon, a visitor to our fair shores for the gala opening of the AT&T PAC — has decided that the Earth is running out of room for his architecture. His firm, Foster + [...]
A month before the new double-barrelled AT&T Performing Arts Center officially opens, D Magazine has released its October issue online and on the newstands. Think of it as the starter’s gun going off for Big, Anticipatory and Celebratory Ruminations and Evaluations on All Things AT&T PAC-Related, Local Media Division. Yes, we’re preparing our own gigantic [...]
Our tour of the inside of the Wyly Theatre for Think TV was broadcast and put up online Friday. It includes never-before-seen footage of the Wyly’s touted “flexible” seating and staging configuration — plus interviews with Kevin Moriarty, artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center, and Benton Delinger, project manager for Theatre Projects Consultants, the [...]
PADS AND POINTE SHOES: A night’s sleep has done little to erase the memory of Sunday night’s last-second loss to the Giants. But just like Tony Romo has to forget about those three interceptions, we’ve got to try and forget about what might have been. So maybe this story from the Washington Post will help? [...]
Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art, offering lectures, tours and program planning. She is Vice- Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee. At Monday’s Ground Making ceremony of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, Mayor Tom Leppert proclaimed it a great day for Dallas and applauded the [...]
STANDING O’S: The Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum held its annual confab recently to name its award winners. The Forum does things a little differently – rather than pick one winner in each category, they prefer to cite several performances that they deem worthy of recognition. Special props to Art&Seek guest bloggers Lee Trull (The [...]
