Fictional Realities

In a play within a play, it can sometimes be difficult to discern reality. The actors are always acting, but are they acting that they’re acting or are they just being themselves? Phew, I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Where reality stops and the show begins might be exactly the…

Sex, Lizards, Leather Play

You know what the Renaissance was missing? Sex. And lizards. And a little leather play. Leave your Bosch hell mouths and self-flagellation at the door as the MAC’s large gallery opens Masami Teraoka’s bold take on the issues of the Roman Catholic Church. His work addresses serious themes, such as…

Director Cody Lucas Discusses His Bathtub Play Sweet Chariot

Out of the Loop Fringe Festival is an annual event at Watertower Theater featuring a packed schedule of mostly local acts through Sunday. Cody Lucas returns to his hometown for the fest, with Sweet Chariot, a show about a man in a bathtub. There are two more chances to see…

Dallas Museum Directors Fulfill Gender Stereotypes, Says Study

In our city, the major museums are the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and the Kimbell Art Musuem and The Modern, if you count Fort Worth. This means our major arts leaders are Max Anderson, Jeremy Strick, Eric M. Lee and Dr. Marla Price, respectively. It probably…

Wear Your Wedding Dress to “Brides of March” on Saturday

Apparently, this is the weekend to play dress up in Dallas. We’ve got All-Con all weekend, the bunch of bananas Friday night, then the Greenville Ave. “parade,” where more than 100,000 people will dress up in green and play drunk in the streets. Here’s one more for you: “Brides of…

Gallery Hopping in Dallas: Can Art be Mandatory?

Saturday evening, I participated in the activity known in New York City or Los Angeles as “gallery hopping,” which is exactly what it sounds like. I just often forget you can do it in Dallas. On nights packed with openings, it can be the perfect pre-dinner or concert activity. Swing…

6 People To Avoid at the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade

This Saturday, more than 125,000 people will stuff themselves into Greenville Avenue’s taint to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day exactly as one would in Ireland: with a beads parade, corn dogs and green beer. At 11 a.m., the 35th Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade will puke all-green-errything upon Blackwell Street…

Four Local Bookstores to Shop at Today

The Internet has not been kind to the printed word. It’s deformed language, crippled print journalism, and perhaps most depressing of all, it’s suffocating books. You know, the bouquets of paper you check out from libraries; the gently used paperback you rescue from Half-Priced Books; America’s next great novel available…

14 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas this Weekend, March 7-9

For the past five years, Dallas Theater Center has commissioned or collaborated on quite a few new musicals. Perhaps the most exciting commission yet opens this weekend. Based on Jonathan Lethem’s stunning novel, The Fortress of Solitude is a musical journey through 1970s Brooklyn, as two friends, obsessed with superheroes,…

Five Porn Stars Who Tried to Make the Leap from XXX to Recording Artist

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights gets pulled out of the nightstand drawer this weekend as Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) gives it a 35-mm big-screen run this Friday through Sunday. Several of the film’s funniest moments involve drug-addled cocksman Dirk Diggler’s attempts to record “You Got The Touch” and…

A Dash of Chekhov in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Cross the forlorn siblings in Chekhov’s Three Sisters with the squabbling kin in Arrested Development and you get a good idea what the family is like in Christopher Durang’s Tony-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. It’s a brilliant, funny play getting a brilliant production at Uptown Players,…

300 Sequel Offers More Bloody Hunks and Eva Green

Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and…

An Irresistible Playdate with Elaine Stritch

“I’ve got a certain amount of fame, I’ve got money — I wish I could fuckin’ drive,” 86-year-old Elaine Stritch carps just a breath into Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a gift of a documentary celebrating its subject’s brittle brilliance, still-here indomitability, brash comic truth-telling and principled refusal to wear anything…