SAN ANTONIO—Well-represented in museum collections, the 19th-century Philadelphia portrait painter Thomas Sully (1783-1872) isn’t exactly a forgotten figure...
HGOco turns seven years old this year. A scrappy, energetic initiative dedicated to making an opera company relevant to the city it serves, it has taken opera out of the Big House downtown and planted it in unexpected places all over the city:
Kaitlin Hopkins is head of the Musical Theatre program at Texas State University, where her over 25 years of work on and off Broadway, and in regional theater, film, television, opera, and radio inform her work with Texas State's aspiring young actors.
If the play is titled Less Than Kind, it sets itself up for easy aim if the production doesn’t live up to theatrical standards. Luckily, the U.S. premiere of Sir Terence Rattigan’s smart comedy has no fears of embarrassment as produced at Theatre Three in Dallas.
It’s not every day that a Dallas theater produces a show bound (hopefully) for Broadway, although the Dallas Theater Center is ensuring it becomes increasingly more likely.
Since the establishment of the Dallas Film Society, the organization has hosted seven film festivals—three under the AFI Dallas name (2007–2009) and now four as the Dallas International Film Festival (2010–2013).
When Karl Kilian opened his bookstore in the summer of 1974, he spent almost all of the next three months on the couch, reading Proust; All of his potential customers had fled Houston’s heat.