KERA radio story: Online review here Expanded online story: The Dallas Theater Center has been rehearsing a new show. But the cast and crew have also been writing it at the same time. That’s only fitting because it’s a play about creativity — in this case, the creation of the world. [ambient rehearsal sounds, muttering, [...]
At just 37 years old, Jeff Stover became UT-Dallas’ Director of Theater and Dance this past summer. While studying at Collin County Community College, the former high school football player wandered into a theater class for easy credit but ended up finding his future career and life’s calling. He graduated from the University of Nevada [...]
KERA radio story: Expanded online story: The Dallas Arts District has office towers, condos and new arts venues going up. What it needs now, a new organization believes, is a clear plan to become a real urban gathering place. Wednesday afternoon, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas City Council member [...]
Elizabeth Alexander’s inauguration poem, “Prose Song,” hasn’t won many accolades. But her publisher is betting that it will still sell well: Graywolf Press is rushing out a printing of 100,000 copies. Many people believe — no, make that ardently hope — that Barack Obama will be “an arts president.” But the inaugural music from composer [...]
BROADWAY AT THE BASS: Casa Manana released its schedule for its Summer Broadway at the Bass series over the weekend, and the thought that immediately jumps to mind is that each show also has a tie to some other incarnation. Three of the five (Little Shop of Horrors, Legally Blonde and Grease) were also successful [...]
DIRECT TO D.C. FROM DENTON: Thursday, we talked about Dallas artist Frank Frazier’s commision to design the posters for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Presidential Inauguration Ball. And he’s not the only North Texas artist with a hand in the historic event. Brad Leali, director of the University of North Texas’ Three O’Clock Lab Band [...]
Burning Man Festival, 2008 Looking over pictures of Dadara‘s Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia installation at Burning Man 2008, it is obvious that sacrifices of visual impact were made in order to bring it to Centraltrak, the UT-Dallas artists’ residency in Exposition Park. Missing was the exterior facade of a pink skull and crossbones. Also missing when I [...]
The Austin Museum of Art’s $23 million downtown expansion project is one of the biggest casualties of the economic downturn. But all in the capitol is not grim. Jeanne Claire van Ryzin at the Austin American-Statesman checks in with this thorough report of how arts groups are faring in Austin. I wonder if we’ll see [...]
BRACE FOR THE INFLUX: The travel section of The New York Times picked the 44 Places to Go in 2009 on Sunday. (Why 44? Well, I imagine they wanted to do 50, but you know, with the economy and everything …) Landing at No. 17 on the list is Dallas. Why mention this on an [...]
It’s pronounced like you’re saying “darling” but you stutter at the beginning: duh-DAR-ruh. Dadara’s home studio is in Amsterdam. He believes each of you is living inside your own brain, your own bubble, and that “even though you live in the physical world, you always take your bubble with you.” At the 2003 Burning Man [...]
