Everyone’s seen a Renoir, most people know about Degas’ dancers, or recognize Manet’s Balcony. The ubiquity of Impressionism inspires films, fiction, and even credit card embellishment. “Two Girls at a Piano” reminds a father of his two daughters, so he finds a knock off online; an art student stares endlessly…
The great comedians know that they don’t have to create fiction, they simply have to pluck out the insane bits of a world trying to wrestle with its sanity and present it in the way a carnival barker would just before he pulls back the curtain to reveal some horrid…
All fans of anything have lists in their heads of famous hands they’d like to shake — those attached the faces and voices they’ve seen in their favorite movies and TV shows. There’s just something about making that face-to-face to contact with the people you’ve worshiped from afar that makes…
A cottage industry has popped up to help sate the nation’s unending appetite for the undead. Everything from brain shaped candy, to “Zombie Squad” customizations for vehicles are readily available for consumers who want to show that they’re ready for the not really upcoming zombie apocalypse. Lucky for those North…
It’s here, finally. Well, if you count Thursday as the weekend. And we do. No need to slack off, get planning on how you’ll make your fun this weekend. What’s that expression? Oh yeah, carpe diem…
Three years ago, Shakespeare Dallas launched a project called, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.” The gist was simple: Over five years, the company’s actors would recite every single word Shakespeare ever wrote in a monthly series of staged readings. This includes plays and poetry. According to the Folger Shakespeare…
A gloom hangs over writer-director David Ayer’s brutal war drama Fury that only the audience can see. It’s April 1945, and we know that in weeks the Nazis will surrender. The war is already over — Hitler just hasn’t admitted it. American Sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) suspects as…
The big news: In its first half, before it bottoms out with the rankest feel-goodery, Theodore Melfi’s too-familiar ain’t-he-irascible comedy-drama St. Vincent features scene after scene of Bill Murray actually trying to make you laugh. How long has it been? He plays Vincent, a drunk-driving Brooklynite whose look suggests science…
Tennessee Williams described The Two-Character Play as his “most beautiful” drama after A Streetcar Named Desire. He may have been a bit too in love with his own words. It’s a haunting piece laced with poetry, madness and tragedy, but it’s no Streetcar. The current production of The Two-Character Play…
Director Michael Serrecchia has gathered some mighty big voices to play Little Women in the musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s novel. Contemporary Theatre of Dallas ends its season with this show. On a multi-level set by Rodney Dobbs that has the cast navigating steps made of giant stacks of…
At Dallas Children’s Theater, Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale, directed by Nancy Schaeffer, is letting the title character’s hair down while bringing the house down with giggles of delighted young audiences. This is children’s theater at its best, cast with top professional grown-ups — Erika Larsen as the…
Knocking out the first-rate forgeries that fooled 60 American museums? That was a curiously mundane miracle, something for Mark Landis to do while watching TV. A frail and ascetic Mississippian who resembles Michael Stipe playing Truman Capote, Landis sketched and painted minor Currans, Averys and Cassatts with one eye on…
When you were a kid, did you know what you wanted to be? And if you did, did the goal stay the same longer than two weeks? Most kids are like magpies, flitting from soccer to bug camp to music lessons to the next shiny new thing their friends are…
Nasher Sculpture Center’s ’til Midnight returns Friday night with performances by Jeff Mitchell & The Phonophreaks at 6 p.m. and Ishi at 9 p.m. It’s a great time to stop by and see the current exhibition, Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio, which our arts editor called “irresistable.”…
Those campfire stories of yesteryear are about to look like child’s play in light of Rawlins Gilliland’s Happy Murder Stories. The unofficial Dallas Poet in Residence channels Edgar Allen Poe as he regales a packed house at the Kessler Theatre (1230 W. Davis St.) with the all-too-true stories of his…
Thanks to the rise of technology, mankind seems to have forgotten the simple of joy of two simple things: taking a picture and walking. Everyone with a phone in their pocket has a camera that can take digital pictures for us and thanks to Uber and Rascal Scooters, we never…
Music and comedy go together like peas and carrots, but merrier. And with less fiber. Catch this combo for the ages at Alternative Comedy Theater’s “Laughter is Music to Our Ears” program at 11:15 p.m. this Friday and Saturday in the Pocket Sandwich Theater, 5400 East Mockingbird Lane. Newly-formed (but…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is reintroducing its popular ReMix series, with the first installment of the 2014-15 season debuting this weekend: Song of the Symphony. With a casual environment and earlier start times, ReMix offers patrons a chance to enjoy classical music in a more social context, which, on this…
If you’ve filled up on corny dogs and the variety of fried novelty foods packed into calorie heavy balls at the State Fair of Texas, you can clean out your stomach at the 2014 Texas Veggie Fair. This fiber-conscious event will leave you feeling better than you arrived. Styled in…
Before the Disney version of the story of a young princess who is put under a 100-year curse by an evil fairy and only awaken by the kiss of her true love, we had the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. The stories are similar; it’s still the classic fairytale about Princess…
There was a time when it wasn’t good to be a nerd. Those were dark days, back when your obsession with Dungeons and Dragons basically meant you were a Satanist and the comic books in your backpack regularly earned you an ass-kicking. Now, nerds are catered to at every level:…
You can’t predict love. Certainly, when James Carville met Mary Matalin, we’re guessing he wasn’t thinking, “She’s perfect.” After all, he’s a democratic politician and she’s a consultant to the Republican party. But as it stands, 20 years later, their romance is still going strong, disagreements aside. They even wrote…
