Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Fort Worth Opera Festival Kicks off with ‘Porgy and Bess’

Steven Brown·March 14, 2019

Thanks to his boundless optimism, the hero of Porgy and Bess is one of opera’s most lovable characters. Porgy needs all the hope he can summon, because he often contends with the weaknesses and errors of others--especially those of his beloved Bess.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Dallas Symphony’s Soluna Festival Thinks Big

Steven Brown·March 14, 2019

Why does the Dallas Symphony mount its annual Soluna music-and-arts festival? Not because it wants to escape the proverbial same old thing. For an orchestra, “the ‘same old’ is fantastic,” president Kim Noltemy says. With Soluna, the group is thinking bigger.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Music Visual Art

A Playwright Rises: Jonathan Norton takes up residence at Dallas Theater Center

Lindsey Wilson·March 14, 2019

At the beginning of 2019, Dallas Theater Center announced Jonathan Norton as its new playwright in residence, but the history between the two actually goes back much farther:

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Painting Toward Intimacy: Jonas Wood at Dallas Museum of Art

Laura August·February 12, 2019

There’s an intimacy that comes with looking at painting, Jonas Wood tells me.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

The Company Model on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 11, 2019

The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Theater

Rescue Music: DSO Oboist Erin Hannigan’s Artists for Animals

Amy Bishop·February 11, 2019

The audience members at the Meyerson Symphony Center had no idea what an adventure the oboist onstage had on her way in to work that night.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Texas Lens: Finding My Voice

Agostina Migoni·February 7, 2019

My name is Agostina Migoni and I am an opera singer. My grandfather, who lived with us during my childhood, was also an opera singer and my first music teacher, so I feel that my career path was determined pretty early on.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Texas Lens

Salon and Culture Jack bring New Artists and Ideas Together in Dallas

Ashley Jones·January 14, 2019

This is French Room Salon and Culture Jack, two distinctly different series of art events, both gifted to Dallas towards the end of 2018. Although varied in format and feel, both series bring people together in close proximity, where they are subject to new art and ideas on a monthly basis.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Visual Art

Dallas Chamber Symphony Finds its Niche

Amy Bishop·January 14, 2019

When the Dallas City Performance Hall (now Moody Performance Hall) opened its doors to the public in 2012, it also opened the doors of opportunity to a number of mid-sized arts groups in need of a right-sized venue. And so begins the story of the Dallas Chamber Symphony.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Catching up with North Texas Theater: A Conversation with Lindsey Wilson

Nancy Wozny·December 4, 2018

Lindsey Wilson is hands down one of the most prolific theater writers in Texas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

REVIEW: Ghada Amer at Dallas Contemporary

Laura August·November 26, 2018

Fingers hover over lips and breasts, hair cascades over and around faces, kisses are blown and shared, pleasure is given and received: Ghada Amer’s ceramic sculptures shiver with ecstatic encounter.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Avant Chamber Ballet’s Musical Season

Kelly Robbins·November 12, 2018

Avant Chamber Ballet opens its seventh season with an ambitious collaboration with the Verdigris Ensemble for a stunning production of The Little Match Girl Passion, David Lang’s haunting choral adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “The Little Match Girl.”

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Music

Visual Art

Awe and Wonder: Space City at Asia Society Texas

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Culture Examined: Kimbell Art Museum offers a window into Dutch art in the Global Age

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology

Cheers to 15 Years: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas isn’t afraid to mix things up for 2025

Music

Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock’s Cultural Scene

Theater

A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Through An Inclusive Lens: Diversity and divas populate Uptown Players’ 2024-25 season

Dallas/Ft Worth

Fort Worth Opera Festival Kicks off with ‘Porgy and Bess’

Dallas Symphony’s Soluna Festival Thinks Big

A Playwright Rises: Jonathan Norton takes up residence at Dallas Theater Center

Painting Toward Intimacy: Jonas Wood at Dallas Museum of Art

The Company Model on Texas Stages

Rescue Music: DSO Oboist Erin Hannigan’s Artists for Animals

Texas Lens: Finding My Voice

Salon and Culture Jack bring New Artists and Ideas Together in Dallas

Dallas Chamber Symphony Finds its Niche

Catching up with North Texas Theater: A Conversation with Lindsey Wilson

REVIEW: Ghada Amer at Dallas Contemporary

Avant Chamber Ballet’s Musical Season