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2001 Stories by Jimmy Fowler

• Here I Am Again

  published February 15, 2001

  Years before Loretta Lynn finally signed with Audium/Koch and began recording Still Country, her first album in more than a decade, a... More >>

• Better Off Lost

  published February 15, 2001

  There is a level of technical sophistication in Theatre Three's current production of the "lost" Stephen Sondheim period musical... More >>

• What a Bore-ing

  published February 15, 2001

  I didn't know much about Marian Anderson, the pioneering contralto who died just eight years ago at the age of 96, when PBS' News Hour With Jim... More >>

• Rhapsody in Blood

  published February 8, 2001

  Peruse just a handful of the estimated 190 titles from American playwright Don Nigro's canon--Dead Men's Fingers, Boneyard, Lucia... More >>

• Over the Top

  published February 8, 2001

  Speaking of writers and control, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire has stated in interviews that his huge off-Broadway hit Fuddy... More >>

• Venus Rising

  published February 1, 2001

  In a bare, wood-floored rehearsal space in the Sammons Center for the Arts, director Mark Farr is advising two actors on the most effective way to... More >>

• We are the World

  published February 1, 2001

  In a city where African-American and Latino activists have gotten into some ugly tussles at school board and city council meetings, we can't think... More >>

• Cora! Cora! Cora!

  published January 25, 2001

  The small crowd huddled inside and around a tent pitched on a vacant lot on Good Latimer near Swiss. The weather hit below-freezing temperatures,... More >>

• Tale from the Dark Side

  published January 25, 2001

  Irish playwright Conor McPherson is often paired with his equally successful enfant terrible peer Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of... More >>

• Farewell, Good Night

  published January 25, 2001

  The role of artistic associate at Dallas Theater Center is turning into a briefer and briefer stepping stone on a long career path:... More >>

• The Frequency of Death

  published January 18, 2001

  Last Sunday night's production of The Frequency of Death at Pegasus Theatre drew a healthy crowd when you consider its... More >>

• Shadows Find Light

  published January 18, 2001

  The centuries-old global art of shadow puppetry has been given a little light by three estimable Dallas theater talents: director Lisa Lee... More >>

• Half Witty

  published January 11, 2001

  Paul Rudnick may be the funniest American playwright who can't really write--at least, he has major problems with balance, structure, and... More >>

• Still Born

  published January 4, 2001

  Peruse the online newspapers of major American cities in December, and it's clear that Langston Hughes' 1961 Black Nativity is... More >>