Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

Becki Howard: "I've Learned That Booking Only Bands You Love Isn't Always the Most Fiscally Responsible Thing To Do!"

Becki Howard's role might be more behind the scenes nowadays, but she's done her fair share in the spotlight over the years, playing violin on three Paper Chase albums, and performing live with The Crash That Took Me, Sarah Jaffe and, more recently, Bethan. It's likely her passion for performing, ... More >>

Blaming Move to Winspear and Poor Economy, Dallas Opera Cancels Katya Kabanová

Photo by Patrick MichelsDallas Opera General Director Keith Cerny when he was introduced at the Winspear in April 2010​Back in April 2010, the Dallas Opera finally announced it had found someone to run the show: Keith Cerny, who was tasked with, among other things, finding contributors to the oper ... More >>

AT&T Performing Arts Center's CEO, Mark Nerenhausen, Has Resigned Effective Pronto

Mark Nerenhausen​The release just sent by the AT&T PAC folks announcing the sudden and surprise resignation of Mark Nerenhausen, who was named president and chief executive officer for the then-Dallas Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2008, doesn't say what led to the decision this ... More >>

One Critic Thinks AT&T PAC Is Pretty on the Inside. But the Outside? Not So Much.

Patrick MichelsSammons Park and the Wyly Theatre seen from the Winspear Opera House​It's a complaint that's been made repeatedly since the AT&T Performing Arts Center made its October bow: The buildings are beautiful, but the spaces in between -- "a Cobb salad of unrelated elements," in the wo ... More >>

Roger the Dodger Gets Called Back to Lead One More Super Bowl Drive

One Writer Says AT&T's Refusal to Pony Up Naming-Rights Numbers "Looks Suspicious"

​Yesterday came the big announcement: AT&T done bought itself the naming rights to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. But there was one glaring omission in the press release's fine print: How much did the company pay? That troubles New York Times arts and business writer Judith Dobrzyn ... More >>

The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Now Has Its iPhone Money, Courtesy AT&T

​The official press release arrived early this morning, along with the official newspaper: The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is now the AT&T Performing Arts Center. (Or both, per the Web site.) Nobody's saying how much AT&T's spending on the naming rights, only that the package inc ... More >>

When You Go Down to City Hall Today, Just Make Sure You Pay the Parking Lot Box

Should be an interesting Dallas City Council meeting today -- if, that is, the Deep Ellum Association knows it needs to send its people to City Hall before 1 p.m., as the council will vote on the parking-boot ordinance well before lunch break, according to city officials to whom we spoke last night. ... More >>

AFI Dallas Is No More. But Debuting Next Spring, the Dallas International Film Festival.

Patrick MichelsMichael Cain, kicking off the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26 at the AMC NorthParkIn September 2006, some local cineastes were terrified to learn that Michael Cain was shuttering his mom-and-pop Deep Ellum Film Festival and spending a little less than $1 millio ... More >>

Angela Hunt on City's Budget Crisis: "We're Cutting Muscle; We're Cutting Bone."

Hey, at least Dallas doesn't have budget problems like Conan is facing out West. So we've got that going for us, which is nice.As we mentioned yesterday, the city council's Quality of Life & Government Services Committee got a look-see Monday afternoon at some of the proposed budget cuts before the ... More >>

A Deeper Look at What Dallas Might Have to Do Without in the Coming Fiscal Year

Taking an early glance at the 72-page budget briefing that the city council's Quality of Life Committee will thumb through today, we glean these few randomly highlighted cuts presented in no particular order of importance. Keep in mind, of course, that till City Manager Mary Suhm submits her final b ... More >>

From Ithaca, New York, An Apology to the Citizens of Dallas. And, An Explanation.

David YearsleyDuring the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you'll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than ... More >>

Jeez, Somebody Really Doesn't Like the Looks of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

That somebody is Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley, whose university bio says that during the past two decades, he's "immersed himself in the musical culture of the German Baroque." He's certainly going for baroque with this intriguingly punctuated essay posted to Alexander ... More >>

Are You Interested in Running the Majestic Theater? Because Now's Your Big Chance.

Earlier this week, WFAA-Channel 8 reported that the Majestic Theater is losing its operator, Dallas Summer Musicals Management Group, at the end of June, because, look, it's just lost too much money to continue running the designated city landmark. Which isn't necessarily the case: Dallas Summer Mus ... More >>

So, See, Super Bowl XLV Really Is Coming to Dallas -- Fair Park and Downtown, Even

The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning issued this joint media release, along with the National Football League, announcing venue selections for "16 key events" that'll be associated with Super Bowl XLV. Dallas and Fort Worth each get five; Arlington, four (including, ahem, the g ... More >>

The Singing Superman: DTC's Kevin Moriarty Talks About Tackling the Man of Steel

Earlier this week, Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty announced the DTC's lineup for its inaugural season in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, and among the list of familiar titles and newcomers, one in particular leaps off the page in ... More >>

Where's Fee Waybill When You Need Him? Presenting the Arts District's "Wyly Tubes."

Over the weekend, I drove by the under-construction Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, and the 5-year-old in the backseat was fascinated by the hundreds of tubes running along the exterior. Also fascinated by the aluminum siding: The folks behind the DCPA, who ... More >>

For All You Citizens of and Visitors to Dallas

As we drove past the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts this weekend, the missus wondered what, exactly, the area was supposed to look like once the five-acre Woodall Rogers Park was finished. (Utility work started at the end of the month, though groundbreaking's a ways off.) This illustration fr ... More >>

George Steel, You Are a Liar. So, What, Dallas Wasn't Good Enough For Ya? Fine.

He denied and denied that he was taking the top spot at the New York City Opera, going so far as to tell Bloomberg News right before Christmas, "I'm not interested in the job at New York City Opera." Well, so much for that. Because not five months after he was tapped to head Dallas Opera, soon to mo ... More >>

The Best of Dallas Theater in 2008—and a New Rule for Getting More Butts in the Seats

Noise Abatement, or: Solving the Ruckus Over Annette Strauss Artist Square

Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA buildin ... More >>

Former Cowboys' Band Leader Named Super Bowl XLV President and CEO

The Force is Strong with the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

Enter Stage Right

With the curtain falling on its old playhouse,Dallas Theater Center gets its act together with a new leader

Win, Win: Brinker Forum Swaps John Travolta for Carl Reiner, Martin Short

Lily Tomlin Talks Jenny the Elephant, Dallas City Council and Ross Perot Jr.

All the World's a Stage, If You Can Afford the Seat in the Wyly Theater

Shocking! Surprising! And Exciting!

A Vote Could Be the Secret Weapon to Slow Down the Convention Center Hotel Plans

Dallas Summer Musicals and the Center for the Performing Arts Battle It Out for Broadway

DSM says CPA will cannibalize other theaters. CPA says DSM is afraid of competition. We say 'bout time rich people fought rich people.

Veletta Forsythe Lill, You Are Very Artsy. And Districty.

At the Shaws' Funeral, a Symphony of Themes

DCPA Getting a Jump on Things

Twisted Sisters

DTC struggles with Pride and Prejudice; some funny "girls" in Nunsense: A-Men!

Dallas Theater Center Will Name a New Artistic Director On Wednesday

A Peek Into the Future

Sneak Peek the Performing Arts Center. Only Two More Years To Go!

Hamburger Done at DTC

These Guns for Hire

Cracked Up

Conway and Korman make themselves--and everyone else--laugh again

Gimme Moore

She turns the world on with her smile

The other arena

With major arts players jockeying for position in a new performing arts center, will smaller groups be left out of the Arts District altogether?