Your grandmother may have been a kind, sweet person with nothing but a need to see their grandchildren happy. But just because she got old and turned into the sweet, pious person you knew, doesn’t mean she couldn’t blow a fuse and let loose on some poor bastard who probably…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Curiosity and experience are essential to creation and Karen Minzer has both in spades . Citing…
Erin Cluley, exhibitions director of the Dallas Contemporary, announced this week that she would be opening an eponymous gallery in Trinity Groves. And the narrative emerging (via CultureMap Dallas & Glasstire) is that we have a psychic to thank for the development. Certainly it’s true that when Cluley sat down…
“Picture it, Dallas, Texas.” The wind-ups in Candy Barr’s Last Dance at Theatre Three are something worthy of Sophia Petrillo. And perhaps The Golden Girls is the best foundation for understanding a comedy about aging women, sitting around a kitchen table, laughing over scandalous memories. Despite the popularity of that…
As Texas cities go, ours is relatively gay-friendly. Dallas is one of only five cities in the state to have anti-discrimination ordinances in place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and Mayor Mike Rawlings has openly endorsed same-sex marriage. And, of course, the thriving “gayborhood” in the Oak Lawn…
If you didn’t see Bachelor in Paradise last night, what’s it like to be you? It must be nice to have better things to do with your Monday night. ‘ Unlike perfect, intellectual you, I spent my Monday watching The Bachelor spinoff, where Bachelor and Bachelorette losers castoffs go to…
The Chinese zodiac may indicate that 2014 is the Year of the Horse, but on August 22nd, Year of the Rooster will take the stage at the Wyly Theatre. Upstart Production’s performance of the play inaugurates a six-part series that AT&T Performing Arts Center has dubbed The Elevator Project. The…
When musicals make the trek from the Great White Way to the silver screen, it’s likely they’ll find a way back to the stage. There is no better publicity than a 21/2 hour blockbuster film. Currently in the Arts District, the Dallas Theater Center mounts a reinterpretation of Les Miserables…
She was tiny. She was blonde. Her green eyes looked into your soul and shook it silly. The curves of her hips were pathways to pleasure. If she wiggled her butt, then it was all over. You were hooked. Candy Barr got you. This is the legend of infamous Dallas…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. When it comes to classical dance, most people have a pretty solidified opinion on whether or…
It’s the thick of the summer movie season, the best of times and the worst of times for film buffs. What better place to escape the August doldrums than you’re local cineplex? Well, someplace that isn’t filled to the rafter with screaming kids and annoying teens would be nice. And…
No matter how skilled the storyteller, it can sometimes be hard to tell a story. This task becomes immeasurably more difficult when the teller is expected to fully transform into the character both physically and mentally. To further complicate things, add the fact that your protagonist has a personality that…
Get connected. Go to Mars with some guy named Jon. Reverse roles and play a game. Watch a lizard boy eat a Dorito. Talk about white Russians with Tyler’s mom. All of these things and more will happen at Sundown Collaborative Theatre’s “We’ve Done It Again: A Mixtape,” the group’s…
“60 pulses of storytelling is how we like to describe it,” Artistic Director Dominic D’Andrea says of his One Minute Play Festival (#1MPF), making the fest sound suspiciously like theater for the ADD-addled 21st century. In actuality the #1MPF is anything but. This year Kitchen Dog Theater will play host…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Dallas’ thriving theatre scene can be attributed to a number of factors. The city’s investment in…
Dallas is the city everyone wants to leave. Well, artists at least. Most people dream of Los Angeles or New York City, or maybe Chicago. But the widely-belief is that anywhere is better than this city, especially during August. Take Sally Glass, for example, who earned her MFA at UTD…
Meet, Candy Barr. One of the mid-20th century’s most infamous strippers, known for teaching movie stars how to tease, all the while teasing some notorious men herself. She’s the subject of the sexy, funny new play by Ronnie Claire Edwards, Candy Barr’s Last Dance, which previews at Theatre Three this…
Michael Bay loves ‘splosions. His first words were probably “I wanna ‘splode;” he’s the Ricky Bobby of blowing shit up. This isn’t blogger hyperbole either. He’ll often say in interviews that as a child in Los Angeles, his interest in filmmaking dates back to the time he was grounded after…
Amy McCarthy and Jaime-Paul Falcon are Dallas’ foremost experts on traveling around Texas (not together, separately, and by “foremost” we mean they get around a lot). Anyhow, in the interest of making sure you get the most out of your late summer days off they decided to give you the…
In Calvary, Brendan Gleeson plays a Catholic priest who plods through a rustic Irish village that’s more brutal than beautiful. The beach is gray, the waves are choppy and the wind whips his cassock as though every step were a fight against nature. In some ways, it is. Gleeson, an…
Lasse Hallström has become an expert at making mom-jeans movies, nonthreatening pictures in which headstrong women find love just when they think it’s too late (Once Around), take the upper hand with their cheating husbands (Something to Talk About) and turn small, French villages topsy-turvy by opening chocolate shops (Chocolat)…
Daniel Radcliffe’s first trip to Comic-Con kicked off like the world’s cuddliest Nuremberg rally. This summer, just minutes after he walked into Hall H, the hangar-sized sardine can of 6,500 people sang him “Happy Birthday.” It was an emotional moment for everyone. “The fact that I was turning 25 slightly…
