Sartre in the Summertime
Bit of Stretch Theatre Co. at 14 Pews Houston opens its doors to returning college students every summer. Some don’t just want to hang around. Southwestern University (SU) students Emma Martinsen and Erin Cressy and New York [...]
Review: Surface Pattern
Circuit 12 Contemporary, medicine Dallas May 12–June 16, cialis 2012 Owner Dustin Orlando has assembled a sampling of...
Review: The Birthday Party
Undermain Theatre May 2–June 2, 2012 Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958, around the same time as Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and Albee’s The Zoo Story, ushering in a movement called “Theater of the Absurd” and what some critics dubbed “Comedy of Menace.” [...]
Review: Cicerone
The Ochre House May 19–June 9, 2012 There’s something unmistakably engaging and tantalizing about the story of Henry Miller, expatriated writer who came to Paris in the 1930s, colluded with Anais Nin, professionally and sexually, and went on to publish novels so laced with tempestuous [...]
Review: Charlotte Moth
Dallas Biennale Exhibit curated by the Dallas Contemporary Museum Displayed at the Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas Charlotte Moth has given us important work. It’s not moving or viscerally arousing — but it does make us pose a serious question. Namely, how much ancillary information [...]
Review: El Latido Incesant
Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas May 5-June 2, 2012 El Latido Incesante (The Endless Heartbeat) is the current show at the Bath House Cultural Center on the shore of White Rock Lake. The show is a close-up look at old-master quality wood sculpture lovingly created by Mexican [...]
Review: Deborah Ballard
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas May 20-June 16, 2012 Deborah Ballard: Alter Ego is a exhibition of a large number of Ballard figurative works, both in the gallery and in the gorgeous sculpture garden at Valley House Gallery in North Dallas. Cheryl and Kevin Vogel’s gardens have [...]
Remarks
This month the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is hosting the 67th National Conference of the League of American Orchestras, our industry’s “go-to” event. Nearly 1000 managers, trustees, musicians, and volunteers from our 850 member orchestras will gather at Meyerson Symphony Center to celebrate the DSO’s brilliant music making under music director [...]
The Formative Figure
The human figure remains a persuasive vehicle for the expression of fathomless doubt, hard skepticism, and existential uncertainty about the world. While perhaps something of a straw man argument today, the polemic over the “figurative” and “abstract” in art [...]
Pages with Punch
Book Fest offers life lessons to all A day packed with appearances by top children’s book authors and illustrators, free workshops, art tours, music and theater performances, plus an appearance by a Hollywood actor are what the Dallas Museum of Art has planned for the second annual [...]