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Think Audio: Director Chai Vasarhelyi

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Director Chai Vasarhelyi discusses her documentary, Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love, about the famed Senegalese singer.

Novelist-Travel Writer Paul Theroux on Think at Noon

For lunch today, I’ll be happily filling in once again for Think host Krys Boyd, who’s on vacation. I’ll be talking with Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar, Saint Jack, The Old Patagonian Express and more than 40 other novels, travel accounts, children’s books and short-story collections. Theroux will be in town this [...]

Playwright David Rabe + Jerome Weeks = Think Today at Noon

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Jerome is sitting in for Krys Boyd today at noon on Think. And his guest will be David Rabe. Theater fans will remember the excellent production of The Black Monk from Undermain Theater last season. If you missed it, you’ll get another chance -the Undermain is bringing it back starting Sept. 9. But the Tony [...]

The Undermain Returns to Black, Playwright David Rabe Talks

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The Black Monk, David Rabe’s adaptation of an Anton Chekhov short story, will be revived at the Undermain Sept. 2-Oct. 3. A sizable undertaking for the Undermain, the production last April was directed by Katherine Owens and featured sets by Dallas Tony Award-winner John Arnone. (My original review of it is here.) The Undermain’s was [...]

Think Audio: Managing the Arts

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What are the special challenges faced by those who run arts and cultural organizations? How are they coping with the world-wide economic downturn? The 10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management was held last week at SMU, and one of the organizers, Krista Farber Weinstein, stopped by to discuss the challenges facing arts managers with Think host Krys Boyd.

Art&Seek on Think TV: Richard Rodzinski

This week, Richard Rodzinski, President of the Cliburn Foundation, joins us for the Art&Seek segment on Think TV.

Art&Seek on Think TV: 50 Years Inside a Frank Lloyd Wright Theater

The Kalita Humphreys Theater is one of only three theaters designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (photos of the other two: here and here). The Kalita, the longtime home of the Dallas Theater Center, is clearly the great architect’s “little Guggenheim” — it was completed in 1959, nine months after Wright’s death and two months after the New York art museum opened.

Think + Art&Seek = Jerome's on TV!

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Art&Seek is just about a year old, and we’re celebrating with a couple announcements. The first is really big news: starting Friday, Jerome Weeks will host the new Art&Seek segment of  the weekly Think television show.  Each week, Jerome presents a fresh take on arts and culture in North Texas.  Usually, he’ll interview a newsmaker, [...]

Think Audio: Sister Helen Prejean and Jake Heggie

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Can the arts influence social change? Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, recently discussed the topic with Think host Krys Boyd.

Think Video: Resolana Executive Director Bette Buschow

Bette Buschow, Executive Director of Resolana, discusses how the organization helps incarcerated women and previews an upcoming exhibit of their artworks during the latest episode of Think.

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