Review: Holier Than Thou
Poison Apple Initiative’s new work, Holier Than Thou, is a three-part investigation into reality television and its demoralizing...
From Doomsday to Hell
Another Hilarious Romp from Tamarie Cooper Tamarie Cooper has been entertaining summer theater audiences for over a decade with her hilarious spectacles mixing dance, music and outrageous theater, sourcing her own life as material. She co-founded The Catastrophic Theatre with Jason Nodler in 2007. For ten years her “Tamalalia” series [...]
Myths and Hymns at HSPVA
Bit of a Stretch Returns for the Summer Never underestimate what a small group of dedicated performing arts...
Editor’s Remarks: Summer 2013
It’s summer or for some of us, Tamarie time. Every summer, Catastrophic Theatre’s Tamarie Cooper whips up an...
Classic Riffs
years in Fair Park, the Basically Beethoven Festival is moving to the new Dallas City Performance Hall in...
Midsummer Nights
If it’s summer in Dallas, discount then it’s time for Shakespeare in the Park, an annual tradition for...
What a Feeling
DeQuina Moore wants to entertain you. Originally from Houston, no rx her dreams of the stage took her...
Heavy Metal Jazz
Internationally acclaimed Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela are back on the road again in 2013,...
Summer Screens
French Toons The French animator Jean-François Laguionie stocks his latest animated film with characters who know they’re living inside a painting, in Le Tableau (The Painting). In this wryly inventive parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the barely [...]
In Motion
Bree Hafen is young, case energetic, creative, and ready to show the dance world who she is as...
Books for a Summer Day
Architecture of Seduction As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with [...]
Engineered to Please
New media. It is the hottest trend in the art world. But what happens when that new media, which in this case includes flashing LED lights and music generated by uniquely written computer code, also includes Wal-mart issue pots and pans and Tupperware? In the case of Joel Sampson’s [...]