On Friday night, October 19, 2012, something amazing will happen in downtown Dallas: buildings will become projection screens; streets and courtyards will morph into art galleries; and steel, glass, and concrete will pulse and reverberate, transforming The Dallas Arts District’s 19-square blocks into a mega-surround-sound system [...]
Improvisational comedy, the funny folks on TV with the super-quick quips doing games that evoke Charades and 20 Questions. Right? Few realize those games are gussied up versions of acting exercises, much less suspect them tied to something as grand as the impulse of life itself [...]
John Johnson, known throughout Houston’s tight-knit stage community as “JJ,” is happy enough sharing the official motto of the troupe he founded, for which (as with his name) Classical Theatre Company [...]
Dallas Theater Center has announced its 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC’s 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC’s four-year Shakespeare cycle [...]
“The Lighthouse” Dallas Opera March 16-18, 2012 “Opera” is one of those terms, like “classical music,” that poorly serves to describe an entire world of artistic endeavor. Writers strive in vain to define the difference between opera and Broadway shows when opera companies produce [...]