Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is heading for a red-letter day: May 22 will mark the 125th anniversary of the group’s first concert.
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Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres
Everyone loves a good first, from races to teams to a step on the moon, but when it comes to theater, being the first to offer a brand new work is not without risks.
Dallas Opera Brings the Audience Back
It’s barely two days since the end of Dallas Opera’s season, and CEO Ian Derrer looks back with satisfaction.
Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town
A common lament among Dallas performing arts leaders is how the city’s talent doesn’t stay in Texas.
Vision & Experience: Bart Keijsers Koning Takes the Helm of Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas
As the visionary owner of Keijsers Koning, gallerist Bart Keijsers Koning has never shied away from edgy programming.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Something’s Missing in Alex Da Corte’s The Whale at The Modern
Can absence have a presence? Artist Alex Da Corte and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s curator Alison Hearst think so.
Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works
Jay Duffer and Elizabeth Kensek have long traveled in similar circles.
Speaking of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce at the Meadows
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose extensive collection of Spanish art has earned it the nickname “Prado on the Prairie,” is the first stop for The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce, an exhibition of over sixty European, American, and Puerto Rican masterworks dating from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first.
Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place
Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.
An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art
Her name was synonymous with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and other iconic Pop artists of the 1960s. But few today remember Marisol Escobar or her ahead-of-its-time art, which provocatively explored femininity and women’s role in society.
Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
In 1981, artist Du Chau and his family left Vietnam, emigrating to Dallas.