High stakes (l to r): Jim Covault, Chuck Huber, Matthew Stephen Tompkins, Chris Hauge and Jerry Russell in The Seafarer KERA radio review: Lawson Taitte’s review in The Dallas Morning News Mark Lowry’s review at Theater Jones Arnold Wayne Jones’ review in the Dallas Voice Jimmy Fowler’s review in the Fort Worth Weekly Director Rene [...]
Art&Seek‘s Saturday Spotlight features One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, presented by the Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. For more on the show: FIND: Contemporary Theatre of Dallas has more details on the play on its Web site: REACT: Did you see the play this weekend? If so, drop us a comment to let us know [...]
The second act of the Dallas Theater Center‘s In the Beginning isn’t a second act in the traditional sense. Rather, it’s a chance for the audience to discuss the stories from the Book of Genesis that the play delves into in the first act. Helping that discussion along is the In the Beginning Advisory Council, [...]
WEAVING A NEW WEB: It’s no secret that opera fans skew older – it’s one of the most classical of art forms and takes a certain level of cultural knowledge to appreciate. But that’s not keeping either of our North Texas opera companies from trying to develop a younger fan base. That thought occurred to [...]
“Maybe it’ll be like Team America.” That’s what Stephen said, a little wistfully, when I told him I was heading to see Coppertone last night. And yes, like Team America, there are puppets who do naughty goofy things – leave the kids at home – that will make you laugh out loud. But this was [...]
Clint Ramos, who provided the set and costume design for the Dallas Theater Center’s premiere production of The Good Negro last October, will receive the 2009 Theater Development Fund’s Irene Sharaff Young Master Award in March. Irene Sharaff was a leading Broadway costume designer for decades, working on dozens of landmark musicals from On Your [...]
Circle Theatre‘s space on West 4th Street in Fort Worth is a prime location: It’s actually in Sundance Square, only a block south of the Caravan of Dreams. A natural for some walk-up attendance, pretty rare for live theater in North Texas. But the space has several huge drawbacks. One is the serious lack of [...]
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 [...]
The Nasher Sculpture Center has named Jeremy Strick, the former director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as its new director. The move comes almost two years after its original director, Steven Nash, resigned. “Having worked with the Nasher Collection at the very outset of my career, I am especially delighted to be [...]
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: I realize I may be late to the party for Microsoft’s Photosynth tool, but I’m glad that I’ve finally arrived. I got turned on to it by the NPR show Talk of the Nation, which devoted a segment Wednesday to the tool’s many applications. In a nut shell, Photosynth combines photos [...]
