Before the advent of the e-reader, the audio book and the printed word, even, we relied on the storytellers to pass on the greatest of tales. Today, that great oral tradition has largely been staunched by glowing screens and the only time people really engage in storytelling is after a…
If you’ve not yet made it to Ochre House Theater to see a show, shame on you. When you step into the tiny storefront in Exposition Park, you enter the crazy mind of Matthew Posey. It’s a strange and beautiful place. The shows are dark, zany adventures and the latest,…
If ever a life deserved to be retold in a grand, bombastic musical, it was Eva Peron’s. You think Jean Valjean fleeing through Paris’ sewers is dramatic? Hah. Peron clawed her way up from poverty to become first an actress, then Argentina’s first lady and finally a sort of secular…
Sure, Beauty and the Beast is one of those shows that parents will attach leashes to their babies and drag them along to “expose” them to art. Sure, the toddlers might hum along through their snot noses to “Be our Guest.” And sure, I may find myself sitting next to…
A grown man who lives with his parents; your cousin who has no desire to keep her day job. A psychologist nicknamed them “kidults.” Everybody knows a few. Hell, I’ve dated a few. These stunted adults are the subject of Brooke Berman’s sharp new play Hunting + Gathering, about characters…
Face it. The grind of a 9-to-5 job and the stress of getting there without popping every vein in your forehead is taking a huge toll on your health. Sometimes the only escape available is a quick, cheap trip to the greasy fast food drive-thru that may allow you to…
It’s not every day that a museum announces an exhibition that is a re-creation of a gasoline service station, but those are the exact words the Nasher Sculpture Center used for Bettina Pousttchi’s Sightings installation that opens Saturday. The first American exhibition for German-Iranian artist Pousttchi will be a “drive-thru”…
There aren’t many artists with the balls to install a set of neon Playboy bunny ears on the side of the road. That’s exactly what Richard Phillips did out in the wild West Texas town of Marfa. Of course, it encouraged the rest of the world the to debate the…
A few weeks ago, a lone scientist calculated that civilization as we know it is a mere 15 or so years from implosion. Thanks to our earth-destroyin’ ways, the end is fairly nigh according to him. If that’s the case, it’s a pretty sad showing for humanity, who will have…
There was nothing subtle about Khatia Buniatishvili’s piano recital on Tuesday night at the Winspear Opera House. As soon as she took the stage, the 26-year-old Georgian pianist grabbed the audience’s attention in a stoplight red, figure-hugging sequined gown that popped against the Winspear’s signature red and gold splashed curtain…
The panel begins and immediately the question of diversity arises. Mayor Mike Rawlings poses the question, what’s exciting in Dallas and what needs improvements? Anne Bothwell, director of KERA’s Art & Seek, answers first. The arts here, she says, reflects the spirit of Dallas. Artists are independently creating really ambitious…
When I received the press release from AshleyMadison.com, I initially assumed this was a website of a local baby photographer who takes those baby photos where they put your newborn inside a sepia-toned watermelon. Sounds like something an Ashley Madison would do. I was wrong…
The Perot Museum recently unveiled their World’s Largest Dinosaurs exhibit, a traveling collection of fossils, skin impressions, animation and more. Sauropods, the super-sized group of dinosaurs shown at Perot (and pictured above), stomped their way around Earth for approximately 140 million years, eating every plant in sight while showing off…
When we first approached Vynsie Law for an interview, she was reluctant. Not because VoiceMemo on iPhone freaks her out, but she was afraid she’d come off like a real snoozer. That’s the beauty of Law though. She’s a cool kid who has no idea she’s a cool kid. Law…
There’s been a lot of speculation and serious concern about the direction of the next movie in the Star Wars saga and rightfully so. Remember all the giddy anticipation that bubbled out of our collective consciousness in the days leading up to the release of the first Star Wars prequel…
A transvestite, an Oscar nominee, a football team, a mother who kills her kids and some Jane Austen. Dallas Theater Center’s 2014-’15 season has all of those, plus Scrooge and a play about a book club called, what else, The Book Club Play. No big family-oriented show, however, unless that’s…
Dallas Theater Center is just hours away from releasing its official announcement of its 2014-’15 season, but we already know this: No Dracula, no Shakespeare…
Uptown welcomed trendy and affordable women’s boutique, Rio Ritz, this past weekend. The shop, which is located at 2722 Routh, was created by retail and fashion enthusiast, Thais Moses…
In 2010, Jordan Roth and his mother Susan Roth Romans set up an exhibition on the second floor of the Fairmont Hotel during the Dallas Art Fair. A veteran in the art world, Romans knew this would attract attention from the collectors visiting the fair or staying at the hotel…
It’s difficult to discuss President George W. Bush’s art show without first talking about the work’s context. To look at his portrait of Tony Blair and not consider the relationship between the two world leaders would be impossible. Just a few years after his presidency, Bush persists as a part…
“When I look at my schedule for the weekend, I get exhausted before I even start doing anything. If you really wanted to do everything art related in Dallas, you couldn’t.” That’s gallerist Cris Worley on her experience of a normal weekend in this city. Spend a few minutes on…
The week of Conan’s Dallas reign has come to end. I’m so fucking sick of his creepy face. Yeah, I said it. Don’t get me wrong, Conan’s great. But he’s taken over my life. I have people in my Facebook feed posting selfies with him or live Tweeting the whole…
