Email Author Jimmy Fowler

1996 Stories by Jimmy Fowler

• Holy snooze

  published December 26, 1996

  There were two different performances happening the Saturday night I saw Deep Ellum Opera Theatre's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's holiday... More >>

• Events for the week

  published December 26, 1996

  thursday december 26 The Fantasticks: If you want to experience a holiday show that features no rat kings, no charming little... More >>

• Two for the Road

  published December 19, 1996

  We've been hurtling down the highway toward Houston for two hours now, and it's time for a potty break.MMOur driver turns her plush, 50-seat bus... More >>

• Joyful noise

  published December 19, 1996

  If some doubted that the 20th-century black Sunday sermon doubled as spectacular theater, a story distributed last month on the Associated Press... More >>

• Events for the week

  published December 19, 1996

  thursday december 19 Peter and the Wolf: Besides offering its typical detailed stage design and original puppet and marionette... More >>

• Big tease

  published December 12, 1996

  Dallas-based performance artist Dalton James fills his newest one-man show at the Swiss Avenue Theater, Wet Willie Loves Pyro, with all kinds of... More >>

• Out Here

  published December 12, 1996

  Local tidings A Loving Christmas Mark Loving Independent release Mark Loving is a music critic's worst nightmare: a man... More >>

• Events for the week

  published December 12, 1996

  thursday december 12 Synthetic Pleasures: By all means, make plans to catch Iara Lee's droll, kinetic feature documentary, Synthetic... More >>

• Coward's way out

  published December 5, 1996

  They just don't make purely theatrical animals like Noel Coward anymore, eccentric creatures with greasepaint for blood and a gloriously... More >>

• Events for the week

  published December 5, 1996

  thursday december 5 Wet Willie Loves Pyro: Dallas-based actor-writer-poet Dalton James offered local audiences a rich, thoroughly... More >>

• Lesser lights

  published November 28, 1996

  There are many reasons why Jonathan Tolins' The Twilight of the Golds should become obsolete in just a few short years--or so you think as the... More >>

• Events for the week

  published November 28, 1996

  friday november 29 BR5-49: Take a listen to either their debut EP Live at Bob's or their recently released, self-titled debut album... More >>

• Love in the ruins

  published November 21, 1996

  Countless playwrights have this century tackled the Spanish legend of Don Juan, the man whose insatiable appetite for women represented what could... More >>

• Events for the week

  published November 21, 1996

  thursday november 21 Taking Back Our Democracy From Corporate Domination: If anybody thought that the two major American political... More >>

• 60,000 naked men

  published November 14, 1996

  "Pornography," Randy replies. It is rather more than I expect to hear, having interviewed a half-dozen men on the floor of Texas Stadium... More >>

• Women trouble

  published November 14, 1996

  Feminist literary critics have tap-danced on the grave of every dead white male in the Western canon of letters...except for William Shakespeare.... More >>

• Events for the week

  published November 14, 1996

  friday november 15 Twilight of the Golds: There are a whole lot of hot-potato topics that get tossed around in Jonathan Tolins'... More >>

• Blood and thunder

  published November 7, 1996

  For Dallas theatergoers, the wait is over. We get to find out what happens between Joe and Louis, Pryor and the Angel, Belize and Roy, and poor... More >>

• The truth of sissy force

  published November 7, 1996

  The guys who are known as Romanovsky and Phillips are funny and freewheeling during their Sunday afternoon interview from New Mexico, but one... More >>

• Events for the week

  published November 7, 1996

  thursday november 7 Desdemona...a play about a handkerchief: Last summer's Shakespeare Festival of Dallas production of Othello,... More >>

• Soaring from the sewer

  published October 31, 1996

  Ticket buyers who decide to attend the Undermain Theatre's world premiere of John O'Keefe's new play, The Deatherians, will see a sign at the door... More >>

• Planet of the apes

  published October 31, 1996

  Film critics are put in a difficult position when they see a movie that's well-made but features characters so unbelievably odious you wouldn't... More >>

• Love story

  published October 31, 1996

  While it's true that most filmmakers still keep on-screen gay romance in the hand-holding stage, the viewer who yearns to savor a little bit of... More >>

• Events for the week

  published October 31, 1996

  thursday october 31 Heaven: The Biblical Arts Center is smart--in a public relations sense--to call its latest children's... More >>

• Brainy horror

  published October 24, 1996

  Cora Cardona, artistic director of Dallas' sole seasonal Latino theater troupe, Teatro Dallas, has in the past expressed good-natured frustration... More >>