Kristin Colaneri is a self-described renaissance woman. An Italian American visual artist with degrees in film and theater, she has spent time in both Dallas and New York and logged countless hours in the worlds of fashion, makeup and theater. Sin...

About three years ago, theater director and playwright Kara-Lynn Vaeni arrived in Dallas from New York City, where she worked for 15 years after getting her MFA in directing at Yale University. Vaeni also spent her post-university life doing freel...

Racism is alive and well in America — anybody who denies it is probably racist themselves. But America’s racism isn’t all violence and hate speech; it is just as prevalent and harmful among pleasant American families who don’t consider themselves ...

Journalism has been a popular subject recently with theater-makers in North Texas. This past fall, Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth produced the snappy, witty play Lifespan of a Fact, in which an essayist and a fact checker go head-to-head over th...

When Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary was published in 1856, it was publicly prosecuted for its scandalous portrayal of Emma Bovary’s obsession with finding love well beyond the confines of her marriage. In our culture, Emma’s promiscuity is...

In the 1930s, children all over Germany were sucked into Hitler’s ideology by means of the youth organization Hitlerjugend. Two such children were Hans and Sophie Scholl. Like many Germans, the Scholl siblings were initially enamored by the promis...