WHAT’S IN A NAME?: Just when we were getting used to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts (or DCPA for those in the know), it’s time to get used to a new moniker. The complex will now be known as the AT&T Performing Arts Center. So what do the naming rights cost for a [...]
WHAT TO PAY AT DCPA: In less than a month, the Wyly Theatre and Winspear Opera House will open their doors. But how much will it cost to walk through them? If you’re used to having the best seat in the house, that seat will be a little more expensive in the new digs according [...]
Want to be the kid who gets to “light the lantern” at the opening ceremony for the Ft. Worth Museum of Science and History? Well, it’s not too late to get a crack at it. The Light the Lantern campaign continues until Sept. 30. Details. The new museum is designed by Mexico City architects Legorreta [...]
On Wednesday night, I was invited to a tour of the art along the new DART Green Line, scheduled to open on Sept. 14. The program is named “D’ART on the Line,” and DART invited artists, DART board members and community members to attend this special “thank you” to all the people who helped create [...]
DECONSTRUCTING THE WYLY: The new Wyly Theatre is turning into quite the Rubik’s cube, offering so many staging, seating and lighting combinations. The trick is figuring out which setup goes with which show. That’s a process Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty and his team of designers are working through as they figure out [...]
TREES SPROUTS AGAIN: Tonight’s the big night – the reopening of Trees in Deep Ellum. The Playlist blog has a rundown of who’s playing this weekend, as well as a link to a Dallas Morning News story about the club from June. And the club isn’t slowing down much after the weekend, as shows seem [...]
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has designated the public television show, Austin City Limits, as a historic rock and roll site — that is, the show’s KLRU studio-home at the University of Texas at Austin will be so designated. It’ll join nine other rock and roll landmarks throughout the country — [...]
KERA reporter B.J. Austin passes along this report about the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park: The $100 million park over the freeway lanes of Woodall Rodgers is a public, private partnership. Banker Jody Grant, Chairman of the Woodall Rodgers Foundation, says it has raised more than $20 million so far. Grant: “We have probably about $25 [...]
HONG KONG, VIA DALLAS: While scanning through The Architect’s Journal, like I do every morning (don’t you?), I came across this item announcing that Foster + Partners, Rem Koolhaas and a third designer will head up the planning of a $2.7 billion arts and culture district in Hong Kong. It made me wonder if Hong [...]
We knew the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts was going to open with a week’s worth of events and hooplah, Oct. 12-18. But 100 days out, things have gotten a little more specific.
