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 [...]
Documenting Life
Thin Line Film Fest is Texas’ International Documentary Film Festival held annually the second week of February in downtown Denton, and is the only documentary film festival in the state to screen more documentaries than the bigger SXSW in Austin. For eleven days a diverse program [...]
Timeless Tomlin
Lily Tomlin has a yen for the South and its strong women. Ann Richards was her good friend....
New Works In Movement
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Returns To Texas In their highly anticipated return to Dallas on February 9, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will be gracing the Winspear stage with a program featuring new works by some of the world’s most sought after and inventive choreographers and composers — including famed Czech choreographer [...]