Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Ahead of the Curve: Dallas Opera and Dallas Symphony Orchestra Focus on Women

Amy Bishop·September 10, 2019

This fall, The Dallas Opera launches its fifth residency of the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors Oct. 27-Nov. 9—designed to help female opera conductors take their careers to the next level.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year

Lindsey Wilson·September 10, 2019

If you’re wondering how the Dallas performing arts scene has changed over the past five years, just look at the Elevator Project.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Music Theater

Dark Territory: Robyn O’Neil at The Modern

Nancy Zastudil·September 10, 2019

Artist Robyn O’Neil is funny. Not ironically funny; honestly funny.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’

Isabelle Dom·August 27, 2019

In Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Artistic Director Joshua L. Peugh’s newest work, Pete: A Dance Musical a playground becomes Neverland and a favorite childhood fairy tale extends beyond a youthful adventure and incorproates commentary on life’s inherent contradictions and the queer, minority experience.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Theater

Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes

Steven Brown·August 20, 2019

Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Wait & See: Elmgreen & Dragset at Nasher Sculpture Center

Nancy Zastudil·August 14, 2019

Whether it’s creating a faux art fair or turning a giant swimming pool on its Vincent-Van-Gogh’s-ear, two international artists are bringing their conceptual sculptural sensibilities to Dallas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Haley Nelson In Residence: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater’s In-House Producer

Lindsey Wilson·August 13, 2019

Since its founding in 1998, the National New Play Network has produced 85 rolling world premieres. Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater, formed in 1990, is one of NNPN’s founding core theaters, and hosts the longest-running new play festival in Texas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Theater

Homegrown World Premiere: Blake Hackler at Second Thought and Circle Theatre

Lindsey Wilson·August 7, 2019

When Blake Hackler handed over his newest play, What We Were, to Second Thought Theatre artistic director Alex Organ, he wasn’t expecting an offer to produce it.

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Theater

A State of Their Own: Latinx Playwrights Call Texas Home

Trevor Boffone·July 31, 2019

Texas is home to a growing cohort of Latinx playwrights working in all parts of the state who have chosen to remain here despite the unique challenges that they face as artists of color in the Lone Star State.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Latinx Theater Lone Star Stories Theater