A Lonely Beauty: ‘The Children’ at the Rec Room
Two women, old friends but decades absent from each other, have tea in an isolated British seaside cottage.
Theater
Selecting the season: Stage West’s 2019-20 lineup
For the past 40 years, Fort Worth’s Stage West has been producing works that challenge, inspire, and entertain.
Bringing Your Heart to a Role: Dear Evan Hansen Tours Texas
Coming of Broadway age in the shadow of the Hamilton juggernaut, Dear Evan Hansen, the seemingly unassuming musical about an unpopular high school kid with social anxiety, managed to turn its misfit story into a multiple Tony® Award winner.
McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Gets a New Show and Curator
An orchestral score for a ballet wouldn’t ordinarily pop up in an art museum’s storage room. But the one in San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, a score of Erik Satie’s surrealist Parade, was no ordinary example.
Representation in the Borderlands: UTEP Brings Latinx Theater to El Paso
On August 3, 2019, El Paso entered the national zeitgeist when an active shooter killed 22 people at a Walmart. The shooter’s goal: to kill as many people of Mexican descent as possible.
Hope through a Latinx Lens: ‘In the Heights’ at Dallas Theater Center
In the Heights, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, won four 2008 Tony Awards and has become the most recognizable Latinx musical.
Sound, Fury and Bears: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the Alley
Even in a canon filled with political advising witches, fairy marriage wars and revenge seeking ghosts, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale still stands–statuesque–as an odd chimera of a play.
Heart and Mind Synchronicity: ‘The Hard Problem’ at MST
In one of his most recent works, The Hard Problem, getting its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (through Oct. 6), Stoppard goes in heavy on the head, rather literally as the play follows scientists looking into questions of how the brain creates the mind, how we are conscious of our own consciousness.
Acting in Texas: Shannon McGrann
What do Carrie Fisher, the Wicked Witch of the West, and a rabbit have in common? It’s not a trick question, but a sampling of the roles Shannon McGrann has played over her years onstage and in front of the camera.
Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’
The problem with bringing a groundbreaking work of art into the world is that sometimes it alters the landscape so much that when we revisit it we might forget that such a wonder didn’t always exist.
A Theater of Objects, Ideas and Ideals: Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin
Human-induced climate change, denied by certain politicians and often ignored by many, is a threat to every species on the planet.
Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year
If you’re wondering how the Dallas performing arts scene has changed over the past five years, just look at the Elevator Project.