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

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Lindsey Wilson·June 11, 2021

Leos Ensemble Theatre decided to change that. The Dallas-based company, which was founded in 2019 by dancer and performer Nick Leos, is becoming the first theater group in the U.S. (and perhaps even the world) to create a piece expressly for TikTok.

Dallas/Ft Worth Film Theater

Garden Party: With Pilobolus in the Garden, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND returns to live, in-person performance

Lindsey Wilson·May 18, 2021

The dance company Pilobolus has many missions: to tell stories with the human form, to test the limits of human physicality, to explore the beauty and power of connected bodies.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Texas Lens: Lily Cabatu Weiss Looks Ahead for the Dallas Arts District

Lindsey Wilson·March 29, 2021

Nearly one year to the day that the Dallas Arts District—and most of the world—shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ACTX’s Lindsey Wilson interviewed its executive director, Lily Cabatu Weiss.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

One STEP at a Time: Second Thought Theatre lifts the curtain

Lindsey Wilson·January 18, 2021

The new artistic director of Dallas’s Second Thought Theatre is addressing the virtual audience of STEP: Second Thought Emerging Playwrights.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Theater

How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies

Lindsey Wilson·November 2, 2020

Since its founding in 1982, TITAS has been all about bringing the best of the arts to North Texas. The 2020-21 season had been planned to expand upon this mission by featuring, for the first time ever, an all-American lineup of visiting dance companies—until the coronavirus happened.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Back From the Grave: Teatro Dallas partners with Deep Vellum Publishing for outdoor literary theatrical event

Lindsey Wilson·October 22, 2020

Many things were on the cusp of happening when the COVID-19 shutdown occurred, including Teatro Dallas’ landmark production of Cement City.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

Lindsey Wilson·March 11, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane took a look around Dallas and noticed a gap. Despite having the sixth-biggest population of LGBTQ people in the nation and a reputation as one of the country’s most gay-friendly cities, no theater company in Dallas was regularly producing theater that told this community’s stories.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth

Lindsey Wilson·February 13, 2020

Amy Stevenson, a performer and educator who founded and hosts a weekly cabaret called Mama’s Party, has been more than good to Dallas-Fort Worth for the last 14 years.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

Lindsey Wilson·February 12, 2020

If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another.

Art Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Theater

A new way of looking: Dallas Children’s Theater premieres a trans story for all teens

Lindsey Wilson·January 17, 2020

But as families and school administrators are beginning to acknowledge the journey that more and more young transgender people are recognizing, exploring, and living, so is Dallas Children’s Theater.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Community’s Mirror: Denise Lee writes a play for the people in Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·January 10, 2020

As an admired and award-winning singer and actor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Denise Lee is used to hearing accolades and raves.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup

Lindsey Wilson·October 17, 2019

For the past 40 years, Fort Worth’s Stage West has been producing works that challenge, inspire, and entertain.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

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Art

‘Hyperreal: Gray Foy’ Draws Devotion at the Menil

Seeing Things: Sarah Fisher at landSPACE in Austin

Texas Studio: Carlos Donjuan transforms grief and loss

Music

The Great Lone Star Way: Broadway Across Texas

Stepping into Joy: Performing Arts Houston’s lively 23/24 Season

Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season

Dance

Stepping into Joy: Performing Arts Houston’s lively 23/24 Season

Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season

Live From Dallas: TITAS/Dance Unbound lures global stars and eager audiences back to Big D

Theater

The Great Lone Star Way: Broadway Across Texas

Stepping into Joy: Performing Arts Houston’s lively 23/24 Season

Art All Year: Texas Performing Arts teams up with Fusebox for 2023-24 season

Film

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras: Frame x Frame Expands to Three Locations

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Books

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Lindsey Wilson

TikTok Famous: Dallas’ Leos Ensemble Theatre is giving a 105-year-old Gertrude Stein play social-media relevance

Garden Party: With Pilobolus in the Garden, TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND returns to live, in-person performance

Texas Lens: Lily Cabatu Weiss Looks Ahead for the Dallas Arts District

One STEP at a Time: Second Thought Theatre lifts the curtain

How to be Flexible: TITAS explores new ideas while (safely) welcoming America’s top dance companies

Back From the Grave: Teatro Dallas partners with Deep Vellum Publishing for outdoor literary theatrical event

Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth

Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

A new way of looking: Dallas Children’s Theater premieres a trans story for all teens

Community’s Mirror: Denise Lee writes a play for the people in Dallas

Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup