Janielle Kastner

In the past century, theater practitioners have engaged in a campaign to retranslate the Bard’s work from a traditional Elizabethan context into increasingly innovative settings: the Wild West, the Roaring Twenties, post nuclear holocaust, even the moon. This week, the high school artists in Junior Players’ The Taming of the Shrew...

Sunlight shines through stained ­glass windows as a diverse group of artists trickles into the dusty sanctuary of the former Winnetka Congregational Church building on a Saturday morning. Teaching artist and actress Anastasia Munoz greets each person as he or she arrives. “I’m so delighted you’re in my home today!” she says, shortly...

In September 2014, acting troupe Shakespeare in the Bar got its start in Dallas on the back patio of The Wild Detectives bookstore in Oak Cliff. The actors' shared mission? To make Shakespeare fun again, as it was intended to be, by drinking as they give barely rehearsed performances of...

Immediately upon sitting down with artist Tiffany McAnarney, an Oak Cliff-based painter, designer and muralist, it is impossible to ignore the precision, perhaps even compulsion, with which she describes her work. “We specifically crafted the pieces in this series to fit one exact space in the living room, the sun will hit it...