Big Moves Ahead: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Leans Into Legacy for 2025–26
Bruce Wood Dance Dallas is approaching its sweet sixteen with a season that blurs boundaries between genres, generations, and creative disciplines.
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Dance with Abandon: Avant Chamber Ballet Grows a New Audience with Biggest Season Yet
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.
The Ballad of Stage West: Fort Worth theater company’s 47th season is a matter of life and death
Stage West’s 47th season is full of wild turns: ghost machines, war-time ceasefires, financial despair, and a cottage crawling with infidelity.
Glitter and Be Gay: Uptown Players celebrates chosen family, queer joy, resilience, and rebellion in 2025-26 season
The theater produced by Uptown Players has always pulsed with a particular kind of energy that’s equal parts heart, wit, and daring.
Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season
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.
Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges
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…
Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston
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.
Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town
A common lament among Dallas performing arts leaders is how the city’s talent doesn’t stay in Texas.
Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place
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.
An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art
Her name was synonymous with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and other iconic Pop artists of the 1960s. But few today remember Marisol Escobar or her ahead-of-its-time art, which provocatively explored femininity and women’s role in society.
Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center
We may be made of star stuff, according to Carl Sagan, but the way Jessica Kreutter sees it we are all made of dirt.
Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up
When Imprint Theatreworks closed at the end of 2022, Ashley H. White found herself at a crossroads.