Most entertaining take on the peculiarities of Tony voters comes from Jeremy Gerard in Bloomberg: When he asked 15 Tony voters if they’d actually seen the 33 Chinese monks who performed in the Soul of Shaolin for only 24 performances yet were nominated for Best Special Theatrical Event, Jeremy reports: ” None of my correspondents [...]
Guest blogger Lee Trull is Associate Artist with the Dallas Theater Center and a member of the Kitchen Dog Theater Company. Recently, Kitchen Dog Theater announced the slate for its 2009 – 10 season. It is jammed packed with new work. Each play is bold, funny and appealing. Each writer, save the many years dead [...]
The Tony nominations were announced this morning, with the musical, Billy Elliot, racking up a whopping 15 nominations, tying Mel Brook’s The Producers for the most noms ever — but then, Billy was up against such powerhouse competition as Shrek the Musical (which got eight nominations, despite decidedly mixed reviews) and 9 to 5 (which [...]
Can the arts influence social change? Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, recently discussed the topic with Think host Krys Boyd.
A CINCO DE MAYO TO CELEBRATE: The Tyler Museum of Art’s permanent collection gets a whole lot richer this morning thanks to a gift from some North Texas arts patrons. Laura and Dan Boeckman of Dallas have promised their collection of more than 300 pieces to the museum; 69 works from the collection are already [...]
The Houston Chronicle reports that Texas visual artist Robyn O’Neil has won the richest art prize in North America — the Hunting Prize, sponsoring by the oil services company, Hunting PLC. The company launched the prize in 1981 to recognize an artist from the United Kingdom before moving it to Houston in 2006. More than [...]
Readers of the Art&Seek blog may recall that last year there was a sudden trendlet of tongue-in-cheek, public “performance art” pieces including a mass freezing in Grand Central Station and an outbreak of a musical comedy virus in an LA food court. Now the plague has gone international with “Do Re Mi” cropping up in [...]
Charles McNulty, theater critic for the LATimes, expresses an oft-heard cry in theaters there: With John Goodman getting raves in Waiting for Godot and sharing the Broadway spotlight with Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Jeremy Irons, Geoffrey Rush, Marcia Gay Harden and James Gandolfini, why aren’t any of these above-the-title stars acting onstage in the LA [...]
The Rose Marine Theater, and the history of Latinos in Fort Worth, both get a closer look tonight on KERA with The Rose: A Sense of Place. The theater served as a cultural center for the city’s Latino community, even hosting big Mexican movie stars like Cantinflas and Pedro Infante. Watching it, I learned a [...]
Patricia MacLachlan’s award-winning children’s novel is quite modest, its small events are told in simple language. Those are its strengths. But the original, 64-page novel simply doesn’t have enough material for a full-length musical. The creators of the show currently premiering at the Dallas Theater Center — bookwriter Julia Jordan, songwriters Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe — originally staged a version of this show in New York in 2002. Here, they’ve kept many of the same actors, designers and director, but they’ve added even more conventional musical comedy material
