Lindsey Wilson is a Dallas-based arts writer and critic with a journalism master's from Syracuse University and an undying love for chips and salsa. When not at the theater (which is rare), she enjoys reading, playing with her dogs, and traveling. Photo by Jeffrey Hummel.

Lindsey Wilson

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·September 11, 2025

This fall, Dallas once again becomes a crossroads of Latinx voices as Cara Mía Theatre launches its 2025–26 season with the sixth-annual Latinidades Festival & Symposium.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Music Theater

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Lindsey Wilson·August 13, 2025

If you’ve ever wanted to watch molten glass stretch and curl into a goblet while an opera aria drifts through the autumn air, Fort Worth has just the weekend for you.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Visual Art

Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance

Lindsey Wilson·August 13, 2025

Texas is no stranger to theatrical prestige.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Lindsey Wilson·July 21, 2025

Bruce Wood Dance Dallas is approaching its sweet sixteen with a season that blurs boundaries between genres, generations, and creative disciplines.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Dance with Abandon: Avant Chamber Ballet Grows a New Audience with Biggest Season Yet

Lindsey Wilson·July 21, 2025

Katie Puder isn’t one to do things halfway. For Avant Chamber Ballet’s 13th season, the founding artistic director is nearly doubling the company’s repertoire, launching a new subscription series for families, premiering two original ballets, and restaging a landmark production by mentor and longtime collaborator Paul Mejia.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

The Ballad of Stage West: Fort Worth theater company’s 47th season is a matter of life and death

Lindsey Wilson·July 8, 2025

Stage West’s 47th season is full of wild turns: ghost machines, war-time ceasefires, financial despair, and a cottage crawling with infidelity.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Glitter and Be Gay: Uptown Players celebrates chosen family, queer joy, resilience, and rebellion in 2025-26 season

Lindsey Wilson·July 8, 2025

The theater produced by Uptown Players has always pulsed with a particular kind of energy that’s equal parts heart, wit, and daring.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season

Lindsey Wilson·June 2, 2025

For TITAS/Dance Unbound’s 2025-26 season, the math is undeniably impressive: 10 companies from five different countries, among them two debuts (one U.S. and one Texas) and two world premieres.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

Lindsey Wilson·April 18, 2025

It’s Mickey Mouse, but not. It’s The Simpsons, but twisted. It’s a shaggy Muppet, but there’s something off about the eyes…

Visual Art

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Lindsey Wilson·April 12, 2025

At a time when many institutions are pulling away from telling diverse stories, Houston is proudly showing its support for the Black artistic community with the Fade To Black Festival.

Houston Theater

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Lindsey Wilson·March 31, 2025

A common lament among Dallas performing arts leaders is how the city’s talent doesn’t stay in Texas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place

Lindsey Wilson·January 30, 2025

Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Theater

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Visual Art

Nothing is Ordinary: Hillerbrand+Magsamen at FotoFest

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Presence, Absence and a Certain Tension: Timothy Harding Redefines Space

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists

Music

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Theater

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance

Lindsey Wilson

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Forging Admiration: Art Worth encourages Fort Worth fans to see artists in their element

Stage Left of Center: Four Texas Theaters Redefining Regional Performance

Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26

Dance with Abandon: Avant Chamber Ballet Grows a New Audience with Biggest Season Yet

The Ballad of Stage West: Fort Worth theater company’s 47th season is a matter of life and death

Glitter and Be Gay: Uptown Players celebrates chosen family, queer joy, resilience, and rebellion in 2025-26 season

Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place