Acting in Texas: Kaitlin Hopkins at Texas State University
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.
Undermain Goes Meta
As a black American in 2014, actor Bryan Pitts struggles to identify with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
Less Than Kind
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.
Five Must-See Shows this Spring 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.
Discovering, Nurturing & Supporting New Talent
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).
Ain’t We Fancy? Then and Now
The 21st-century status of Thomas Sully (1783-1872), a Philadelphia painter and leading successor to Gilbert Stuart’s Federal portrait style
In Praise of Indie Booksellers
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.
$argent and Binge Viewing
IMAGE: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: Reading (detail), c. 1911, opaque and translucent watercolor and wax resist with...
What’s the Matter with Rice? Part 2
IMAGE: A view of James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany (2012) on the Rice University campus. Photo by Ned Dodington...
A Tale of Two Festivals
A woman weaves on a loom while fifty amateur violinists and an accordionist surround her with music. The aftermath of a young man’s suicide unfolds on a large screen through social media.
What’s the Matter with Rice?
IMAGE: Reconstruction of Vladimir Tatlin’s model for the Monument to the Third International, 1967-68, in the courtyard of...