Meta Story: ‘Bright Star’ at TUTS
Though it made its Broadway debut in 2016, the bluegrass music-filled Bright Star feels like an old fashioned musical born many decades ago.
Dallas/Ft Worth
Up to the Challenge: New leadership helps Fort Worth Opera revamp
When the Fort Worth Opera Festival unveiled its plans for this year’s edition, the repertoire included a milestone: the company’s first staging of Das Rheingold, the opening of Richard Wagner’s four-part The Ring of the Nibelung.
What Happens When Goliath Listens to David: HALL Arts gets it right (finally) with Through The Lens
The arts communities of Dallas—like many art communities across the country—are prone to tribalism, which plays out across disciplines, geographies, ethnicities, career stages, education levels, politics, and incomes.
The Front Edge of Theater Making: AT&T’s Off Broadway on Flora
Can any image fill a performing arts venue programmer or curator with more dread than the sight of an empty, darkened theater?
Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida at Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University
Two exhibitions dedicated to the life and works of the 20th-century Spanish Modernist sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) are on view at the Meadows Museum through June 3.
Film Fusion: ‘Sunken Garden’ at Dallas Opera
A war has been waging for centuries: words versus music…which is more important in opera?
Progressive Texan: The LBJ Legacy Continues at the Alley and DTC
War. Healthcare. Race. A divisive president in a tumultuous time. Self-destructive and unrestrained ego.
Stories to Tell: Oral Fixation Expands in Texas
Oral Fixation calls Dallas home, but has started taking their storytelling show on the road in recent years.
Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
It’s been awhile since an exhibition prompted me to play the “Whither Texas art?” parlor game—to check in on what, if anything, we mean when we use the term and how, if any way, we feel about it.
Eclipsed No More: DMA Shines Light on Rare Edward Steichen Murals
In 1913, Agnes Ernst Meyer, the wife of financier Eugene Meyer, Jr., and pregnant with her second child, was out of sorts and unable to make her rounds to the art galleries, where, as a former New York Post reporter on the art beat, she had been dubbed “the Sun Girl” by photographer-gallerists Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Writing to Stieglitz, a brooding Meyer quipped, “I am now your Eclipsed Sun-girl.”
A Spring of Firsts at Texas Ballet Theater
After 15 years at the helm of Texas Ballet Theater, Ben Stevenson appears to be catching his second wind.
Abstract Horizons: David Aylsworth at Holly Johnson Gallery
“I don’t really have a fixed idea when I start a painting,” says Houston painter David Alysworth.