Unlike Spring Awakening, American Idiot was built for big houses like the Winspear. The Broadway musical packs a visual wallop to match Green Day’s pop-punk thunder. Trouble is, wallop and thunder is mostly all we get.

Guest blogger and visual artist Spencer Brown-Pearn talks about what it’s like to see your work altered or even completely covered up in a collaboration like “Working Title,” the evolving show at Ro2 Gallery Downtown.

Kick off the summer with KXT 91.7 FM’s Happy Funtime Fest.

What does Godard’s Breathless have to do with Working Title, the show going on at ro2 Gallery Downtown? Guest blogger Jason Parry, a member of the Solvent art collective putting on the show, is glad you asked.

Make a piece of art that evokes the theme of one of the FIT plays.

We’ve come to accept so much of what Harold Pinter pioneered in The Birthday Party. From Monty Python to David Mamet, we’ve found his menace, his puzzles, his great, off-the-wall humor. It takes the Undermain and director Patrick Kelly to find the old-fashioned, theatrical delight.

Because Fort Worth Opera presents its shows in rotation, it has to scramble between Bass Hall and Scott Theatre. That’s going to change. What isn’t changing is its commitment to newer, more adventuresome operas.

The Big Deal is giving away 2 pairs of tickets to see Jersey Boys at the Winspear Opera House on June 15. Learn how you could win!

Presented by the Fort Worth Opera, Mozart’s classic ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ makes it’s way to Bass Performance Hall. Four lucky winners of this week’s Big Deal will receive a pair of tickets.

Learn how you can win dinner for two and tickets to see ‘Red Hot Patriot,’ any Friday thru June 17.