New York and Los Angeles are homes to the some of the biggest and most famous late-night TV franchises in the world. They take them for granted and, to be fair, you would too if you lived next door to the Ed Sullivan Theater. You might even find yourself complaining…
The Miss America pageant is a strange amalgam of beauty contest and charity event. All of the contestants are incredible citizens of the world, who dedicate their lives to important causes. Oh, who are we kidding? It’s really all about the looks. The ridiculous nature of beauty pageants has been…
In a perfect world, Disney on Ice would be some nefarious mobster plot to silence stupid Ariel and her anti-female-empowerment nonsense by sending her to Antarctica where she could warble to the icebergs. Sadly for parents, it is actually a nefarious plot by Disney to dive into our wallets and…
In Nocturne, a 17-year-old piano prodigy accidentally decapitates his 9-year-old sister in an auto accident. Mom goes nuts. Dad threatens to shoot son. Son heads off to New York, escapes to books, becomes a writer and struggles to comes to grips with the tragedy. No further word on what happened to…
Explores the international relationships that George W. Bush crafted during his presidency. April 13-June 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2014…
When it comes to international art exhibitions, Dallas can often be ignored in favor of cities like New York City or Chicago. The Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood St.) is changing that with grabs like Jean Paul Gaultier a few years ago and now with its latest exhibit,…
My first swings at arts journalism were articles about Undermain Theatre. A poetry student at Southern Methodist University, I turned my eyes up from my belly button just long enough to attend a few shows and immediately began writing about the exciting new work happening in Deep Ellum’s basement theater…
What is it like to win a Grammy? According to tenor Jay Hunter Morris, the star of The Dallas Opera’s current production of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, “It’s the most crazy, good thing ever!” “I feel like five years ago not a soul on this earth, myself included,…
Spring is here. Fittingly, the weekend’s weather forecast calls for highs of 90 degrees and lows of 45. This means that at theaters across the city, you’ll be battling strange combinations of air conditioning and heat. But that’s no excuse to miss any of the shows on this list. If…
There was a dark period in my life a few years ago when my days consisted of work, classes, writing and not much else, and my nights were packed full of the saddest event known to modern humans: the Internet date. If you’ve never been on a dating website, if…
Indie rock darling The National is the subject of a new film, Mistaken for Strangers, which opens this month at the Texas Theatre. It’s been called a mockumentary, but after seeing it, that’s the last description I’d use…
In addition to presenting high quality renditions of old favorites like Carmen, La bohème or Don Giovanni, great opera companies also take artistic risks by presenting audiences with new or unfamiliar works. The Dallas Opera deserves props for bringing not one, but two rarely performed operas to the stage in…
We categorize art by medium: painting, sculpture, film, dance. You get it. But to what extent is art meant to be defined by medium? Is it paint on a canvas, a series of movements, a marble carving? Or does the intangible idea transcend the brushstrokes? Much like a person’s humanity…
Dallas Theater Center will produce nine shows next season (up from seven this season), five of them back at DTC’s original home, Kalita Humphreys Theater on Turtle Creek. That may be good news to theatergoers who prefer the free parking at Kalita and the more bottom-friendly seats at the 55-year-old…
As midnight approached on March 24, 1998, the residents of Garland tuned in to channel 18 to await God’s television debut. If the predictions of new resident/cult leader Hon-Ming Chen proved accurate, the Lord would interrupt regularly scheduled programming at 12:01 a.m. to announce his impending descent on the Dallas…
Over her oven, Clare Floyd DeVries affixed a “Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop” sign. She’s a far cry from the cannibal baker in Sweeney Todd, it’s just a souvenir from one of the many sets she’s designed. “I do actually make meat pies,” she laughs. “Probably not the same kind though.”…
Her on-air personality is typically a hardcore mean trainer, who motivates The Biggest Loser contestants by most of the time yelling in their face…
If you haven’t heard the news by now because you’ve been out of town, in a coma or some kind of bizarre parallel dimension that doesn’t have a good Wifi connection, Conan O’Brien is bringing his Conan show to town to tape a week’s worth of episodes at The Majestic…
A scant number of actors, painters, dancers, comedians, writers dancers, magicians, musicians or mimes (those are still a thing, right?) devote a full day to their crafts. Most have day jobs or night jobs. It’s hard out there for an artist. Maybe there just isn’t enough money to go around…
There’s a revolution brewing just off Greenville Avenue. With a handful of cords, a projector and a few speakers, a DIY collective waves its middle fingers in the air at the fine art market. This is Two Bronze Doors. By day a small, nondescript house sits right off Lower Greenville’s…
If you didn’t notice, there was a period there when Deep Ellum had a bit of a hard time. Bars closed. Concert venues closed. The tattoo parlors, well, the tattoo parlors seemed oddly unaffected. But you get the idea. General downtrodeness. But now, with places like Pecan Lodge moving in…
The folks over at Fun House Theatre and Film can do no wrong. They’ve earned critical acclaim and numerous awards for new perspectives on works by everyone from Edward Albee to David Mamet. What’s different about them? They only cast kids. This weekend, masterminds (at least according to us) Jeff…
