critical analysis of visual & performing arts
Review: The Chairs
Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas Lights up on an older couple in a large space with two chairs set...
Reviews
Review: Michael Miller “Out of Commerce”
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas The MAC’s Square Gallery Show – Michael Miller: Out of Commerce – is...
Review: Bon Appétit!
A presentation of Dallas Opera at the Dallas Farmer’s Market Demonstration Kitchen February 9, cialis 2013 At the...
Review: Jennifer & Matthew Guest
Jennifer and Matthew Guest: Doing Wrong Right Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas January 12 – February 24, 2013 Cracked...
Review: The Language Archive
“I don’t understand what you’re trying to tell me,” Mary says to George in Julia Cho’s The Language Archive (at Stages Repertory Theatre through March 3). “I’ve never understood what you’re trying to tell me.” And right there brings us to the crux of the problem in this endearing drama [...]
Review: “Environs”
Cohn Drennan Gallery, Dallas “Environs” presents the work of three artists and it’s readily apparent that one is...
Review: Victor Vasarely
“Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely” MADI Museum, Dallas Victor Vasarely, who was born and died in...
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 [...]
Response: Performance Response to Tony Feher Free Fall
Performance installation puts people in a state of unease, possibly because they don’t know where they are on the continuum observer and participant. Most people got there early enough to have some fun with Tony Feher’s hanging tiny water bottles, warming up the space, getting [...]
Review: Wittenberg
Stages Repertory Theatre’s rendering of David Davalos’s delightfully quirky Wittenberg may be the one show in Houston you shouldn’t miss. As director Josh Morrison says in his program note, “I would love audiences to experience a debate of faith versus reason in a witty, fun [...]
