Cupid Unites Poetry and Music
Orchestra of New Spain is planning a special Valentine’s concert that will transport audiences to the romantic period...
Seeing The World
Editor’s Note: Illness has forced Mr. Stilgoe to cancel his Dallas appearance, but he hopes to reschedule later in the year. John R. Stilgoe is an award winning historian and photographer who is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the [...]
Review: “Environs”
Cohn Drennan Gallery, Dallas “Environs” presents the work of three artists and it’s readily apparent that one is...
Meadows Honors Texas Artist
The Meadows Museum recently announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The...
Review: Victor Vasarely
“Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely” MADI Museum, Dallas Victor Vasarely, who was born and died in...
Grace + Power
Houston Ballet’s Stand-Out Principals Joseph Walsh and Connor Walsh Blade-like limbs sliced through the air exactly in unison, mastering the fierce architecture of Aszure Barton’s Angular Momentum. The stage was jam-packed with dancers, blazing white lights and a striking linear set, yet Joseph [...]
The Con is On
The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can lands in Fair Park February 12. This swanky new musical about contemporary con man Frank Abagnale, Jr. is the 2013 season opener for the Dallas Summer Musicals. Based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, the songwriting duo Marc Shaiman [...]
Dancing Left of Center
TITAS was founded in 1982 by co-founders Tom Adams and Gene Leggett, as the “Texas International Theatrical Arts Society,” to provide North Texas communities with the opportunity to experience the best of American and international music, dance, and performance art through a variety of presentations and educational [...]
ARTifacts: February 2013
The Dallas Opera has announced that Broadway legend and Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning director, producer, playwright, and lyricist Jack O’Brien has been engaged to direct the company’s world premiere production of Great Scott, a new, full-length opera by acclaimed American composer Jake Heggie (Moby-Dick) [...]
Chalk it Up to Creativity
New York-based artist Gary Simmons is known for his “erasure” technique, which he began using in the early...
Painting of All Excuses
When the gallery is quiet, diagnosis after the buzz of the show is over, pharm the art hangs...
Review: Verdi’s Macbeth
Heavy is the head that wears the crown—especially when you murdered your predecessor. Set in post-apocalyptic Scotland, Opera in the Heights’ production of Verdi’s Macbeth captures something new in Shakespeare’s classic from neon purple, lime, and yellow-wigged witches to shopping carts and barbed wire. Pulled off with passion, Macbeth [...]