Endless plays have been written about the brittle matriarch; the woman whose vulnerability intertwines with a vitriolic instability. Many, many playwrights it seems struggle with the mother-child relationship, or perhaps more accurately, the mother-son relationship. But as the work of female playwrights reaches more stages, it follows that new dynamics…
J.M. Rizzi and his eight-year-old daughter love to look at graffiti together. In the car they will slowdown to take a look at something or watch it go by on a train. But as much as she enjoys the art his daughter is sure that he would never do graffiti…
When the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival hits stages at WaterTower Theatre February 25- March 6, there will be numerous shows to choose from. A particularly interesting production at this year’s festival arrives via Brooklyn from the minds of Daniel Robert Sullivan and a handful of New York teenagers…
It’s tempting to spend your week tucked in amongst your Valentine’s floral arrangements and clearance chocolate, but don’t even. Delkus has foretold a week full of cheerful (though probably apocalyptic) weather: patios await you—and once the sun goes down, you can springboard into any number of engaging arts events dotting…
Eric Bogosian does not suffer fools gladly. The theater veteran from New York City commands a room like few others. He has a tremendous confidence and loose delivery that only comes with serious chops. Occasionally he glanced stage side at a list of characters unique to each particular performance; he…
The annual pop culture convention Fan Days brings together fans of all genres and media and gives them a forum to discuss and celebrate the TV shows, movies and comics they’ve loved for most of their lives. So it provides a natural segue to meet someone who shares similar passions,…
On the surface, there isn’t much to object to in How to Be Single. Look, it says! No matter how fabulous their lives may seem, everyone wants to be happier and more fulfilled. Everyone is looking for something more, just like you! And really, Christian Ditter’s film (based on the…
Marie Reyes opens her front door to her Preston Hollow home and welcomes her 10-year-old daughter home from school. “Hey, there. How was your early Valentine’s Day?” Sofia, who was picked up from school by the family’s housekeeper, trots in wearing her Hockaday School uniform and carrying her Valentines. A…
The first Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s dopey, fitfully funny fashion spoof, was released less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks. Its sequel shows the extent to which another kind of nefarious plot — the cynical quest for world domination through cross-brand synergy — has proven impossible to eradicate on…
HBO’s Vinyl is the latest in a series of cultural hard-ons for the rough-and-tumble world of pre-Koch NYC: From novels like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers and Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire to online photo galleries of graffiti-splattered subway trains and can-you-believe-this-juice-bar-used-to-be-a-crack-den slideshows, there’s a hunger for what Manhattan looked,…
Do This! Usher in the Year of the Monkey in the Arts District with the Crow Collection’s Chinese New Year Celebration. From 11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. on what promises to be a beautiful Saturday, there will be performances traditional Chinese New Year art making activities, calligraphy demonstrations, face painting,…
Stop working. Stop talking. Stop everything. Stand up. Stretch. This is our time, Dallas. And by “our time,” we mean Bravo announced the Real Housewives of Dallas cast, so buckle up, bitches, because RHOD wasn’t just some weird nightmare you had. It’s actually happening. Really, really happening. Are you scared?…
Somewhere in our apartments, we’ve all got one — a box filled with written mementos, whether they’re old diaries, letters from sleep-away camp or lyrics for that career as an acoustic singer-songwriter that never took off. But the difference between most of us and the cast of Mortified, a confessional…
Grown-ups may wince, but Paul Dalio’s earnest, ambitious manic-poet romance Touched With Fire is a gift to the young and passionately creative, to the brains-a-poppin’ kids caught up in invention and each other and the invention of each other. You don’t have to be bipolar to get caught up yourself…
A guy I grew up with had the superpower to make anything dirty. No matter what you’d say to him, he’d manage to make it about his dick, or about anal sex, or about how girls — so he had heard — smelled like fish. I asked him what he…
“I’ve turned into this kind of crazy optimist,” Michael Moore admits in his new documentary Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years. At 61, the gadfly savant has mellowed. Instead of charging into rooms, he shuffles, the American flag wrapped around his shoulders like a grandmother’s shawl…
Dallas artist Jeff Zilm is engaged in a quest to determine the role art can play in a world riddled with images: what meaning can it possibly have to offer a world over-saturated with visual stimuli? Specifically, Zilm has his eye on the technology of film and how the medium…
Joachim West Mother Earth Is a Dirty Whore – In Color and Uncensored Artist Joachim West weaves a tangled web of humanity’s darkest obsessions. His paintings and drawings portray the grotesque underbelly of society, turning metaphor into reality. His work will fuck your mind up and leave you wrestling with…
The new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in The Cedars is, in a word, awesome. The second Alamo in Dallas-Fort Worth is located on South Lamar and the view of the city skyline from the front doors is absolutely majestic. In the lobby, there is an enormous film poster of Robocop, which…
Roger Peters and Jessica Cramer are married homeowners who just might be superhuman. In addition to their day jobs — Peters is a director and owner of Equilateral Films, Cramer is a freelance producer and one of the most calm and organized people you’ll ever meet — they also remodeled…
Arts writer Katy Lemieux falls in love all over again with the actor playing Paris in Romeo & Juliet at Dallas Theater Center. Sure, he’s her husband and all, but based on his performance in this show she’d marry him twice. Wedding planning is super hard. Like, really hard. Sometimes…
You may recognize him as Captain Danny Ross from Law & Order: Criminal Intent or from his appearances in films directed by Woody Allen, Robert Altman, and Atom Egoyan. But Eric Bogosian is also a playwright, novelist, and historian. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Talk Radio, a…
