Jeff Elrod, Pong, 2002, acrylic on canvas

Cindy Schwartz’ review in Art&Seek

KERA radio story:

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Expanded online story:

[crowd noises, amplified speaker:]
CURATOR ANDREA KARNES: “Jeff is here with us tonight and he’s going to say a few words about the exhibition …” applause]
The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth has just opened [...]

Rogue’s Gallery: Principal Players in the Flensburg Reich

Publisher’s Weekly review of Germania

Edward Nawotka’s review in The Dallas Morning News

Brigitte Frase’s review in the Los Angeles Times

KERA radio review:

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Expanded online review:

What is it with North Texas novelists making their debuts with really oddball thrillers?
Four years ago, Will Clarke [...]

High stakes (l to r): Jim Covault, Chuck Huber, Matthew Stephen Tompkins, Chris Hauge and Jerry Russell in The Seafarer

KERA radio review:

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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 [...]

The KERA radio story:
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The expanded online story:

In the past two years, there has been a wave of new administrators, artists and conductors who have been hired to lead the cultural institutions in Dallas’ Arts District. The Nasher Sculpture Center is the latest, having hired Jeremy Strick from [...]

The Spindletop oil field, 1903

Bryan Burrough on Think:

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KERA radio story:

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To give some notion of just how big the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, originally was: When it was tapped in 1901, that single gusher tripled American’s entire production of [...]

Liz Mikel in In the Beginning

Lawson Taitte’s review in The Dallas Morning News

UPDATE: Mark Lowry’s review on Theater Jones

UPDATE: Arnold Wayne Jones’ review in the Dallas Voice

UPDATE: Ed Townley’s review for Pegasus News

Feature story on In the Beginning: The Genesis of a New Drama

A front page story in the Dallas Morning News about the [...]

Cast from One in 3 (l to r): Liza Gonzalez, Emily Ko, Shauna McLean, Rhianna Mack, Mollie Milligan, Vanessa Pena, Constance Gold, Renee Miche’al, Jenni Stewart

Excerpt from Jenni Stewart’s phone monologue as Rhonda:

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KERA radio story:

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Expanded online story:

This is a scene [...]

KERA radio story:

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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.
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Complete list of the acting company, the radio report and the expanded online story about the Theater Center’s acting company.

To put the happy announcement of a new company of actors at the Dallas Theater Center in a historical perspective:
When Margo Jones started her pioneering Theatre ‘47 in Dallas, she proudly declared she’d eventually have 50 [...]

In the Dallas and Fort Worth daily newspapers, there will no longer be separate reviews of many cultural organizations and events. The two city papers are former rivals, yet the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram have begun running the same review by the same writer. It’s the latest development in what has [...]