The message of Matilda the Musical is that words have power. How awful then that at the London-to-Broadway-to-national-tour production that opened Thursday night at the Winspear Opera House the audience was powerless to understand most of the words coming off the stage. It’s not a microphone issue; they actors are…
Imagine a world in which the actors are the greatest rebels and theater is contraband. This is the world of Meg Miroshink’s new play, The Droll (Or, a Stage Play about the END of Theatre), which has its world premiere at Undermain Theatre Saturday. Inpspired by the Puritan Interregnum in…
Nowadays, dancers and singers and artists can’t solely rely on their artistic talents. They also must tap into their business-minded side and come up with a plan. Lily Cabatu Weiss knows that better than anyone. The artistic director at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts…
Bill Burr’s has a career worth bragging about. He’s more than just a very funny and clever stand-up comedian with a legion of dedicated fans who pack houses like The Majestic Theatre, which they will do tonight when he steps out on the stage at 8 p.m. He has released…
When talking about Dry Land, director Sarah Hamilton explains, “It’s not necessarily an abortion play, but it’s clear from the first scene that an abortion is going to happen.” The latest show from Upstart Productions, which opens Friday night in a cavernous warehouse space near Trinity Groves, is a female…
Thursday, Sept. 24 The Droll Anyone who has fallen in love with theater will likely rhapsodize about the anticipation when the lights grow dark and the curtain rises. Or exactly what play or musical it was. And for them, or us, imagining a world without theater would be absurd, or…
Alicja Bielawska: Reference Points for Potential Constellations If the work on display in Cydonia Gallery this week seems familiar but you just can’t quite put your finger on it, you’re engaging with what the artist considers the “limits of the past,” or exactly how our perception is tied to to…
Nick Jonas. Sing it with us, Niiiiiiick Jonasssssss. You know him from that boy band of brothers. He’s the youngest one with the diabetes. He’s the one who dated Miss Universe. He’s also on that show Kingdom. Well, put away your silly questions about music and life and love because…
When you step onto the front porch of Allie Hill and Jayme and Michel Ditto’s house, all the neon-painted pots and plants are so perfectly arranged, you’d swear they were styled by a professional, because they were – Allie, Jayme and Mitchell. They’re graphic designers by trade, but they’ve come…
In the sunny main gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a single tree branch seems to be growing out of a marble column. Or perhaps it has been trapped that way, memorialized in this regal way. Then, upon closer inspection, you’ll see this branch, and the others like it, aren’t…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Sayra Carpenter and Michelle Carranza wear a lot of jewelry. Precious stones, woven friendship bracelets, gold pendants in the shape of Texas. They stack their wrists with bracelets, they…
Some veteran filmmakers try to capture the younger generation and fail to get it right, coming up with characters and faux with-it dialogue that invite lots of “Oh, Mom!” eye-rolling. That’s not the problem with writer-director Nancy Meyers’s The Intern, in which retiree Robert De Niro finds meaning in life…
In the mid-20th century, movie audiences understood the value of a good melodrama: A picture like Now, Voyager or Black Narcissus or almost anything by Douglas Sirk could be an urn into which you could pour your own unarticulated feelings of loss and loneliness. The heightened, unrealistic intensity of those movies…
Maybe you avoid the art scene because you think it’s boring, or perhaps you think that your own art skills and knowledge just aren’t up to snuff. Either way, you’re probably wrong. Still, everyone can stand to get a little better at art, even those that don’t find themselves particularly…
This is your bat signal. If, like me, you need rescuing from the dumbed-down high-dollar hillbilly hogwash passing itself off as an important “world premiere” right now at that shiny Arts District venue, then The Adventures of Flo and Greg at the humble Bath House Cultural Center is here to…
If Moonshine:That Hee Haw Musical is redundant, predictable and precariously sexist, the audience doesn’t seem to mind. Taking its title from the long-running variety television show, it’s roughly five minutes into the story that the ending becomes clear and five minutes after that when the heroine looks more like a…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Josie Carignan sits in her bare Rescue Her office in Grapevine. Her desk is seated next to her husband’s in New Life Family Church, where they both co-pastor. Carignan…
Fall is finally freaking arriving, y’all. The weather will (soon) turn crisp, the pumpkins will invade everything up to and including your coffee, and perhaps most importantly, you’ll have plenty of weekend time because football is boring and there are much more interesting things to be doing in Dallas. This…
Welcome to 10 Brilliant Dallas Women, a pop-up online series about 10 awesome women making Dallas a better place to live. Justine Ludwig arrived in Dallas a year ago, but to hear her talk about the city, you ‘d think it was longer. Since moving here from Cincinnati to take…
Charlie Kaufman is a cartographer of the soul. You can picture him hunched over parchment accurately inking each dark river and, off to the side, cautioning that there be dragons. What makes Kaufman cinema’s best psychoanalyst is a contradiction. He sees people for who we are — hurtful, hopeful, lovely,…
Over the last few years, a number of Dallas-based artists have been making trips to Corsicana, a town about 55 miles south of downtown. Helmed by Southern Methodist University alum, Kyle Hobratschk, the project has been to transform a three-story historic building into a residency space for artists and writers…
Oral Fixation builds a community by getting people to tell their personal stories. The series kicked off its fifth season last night at its new location, the Dallas City Performance Hall. The new performance space is a perfect fit, big enough for the large crowds these events draw, but still…
