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Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Tarra Gaines·February 1, 2023

A longed-for royal baby, a series of blessings and curses from a good-to-evil spectrum of fairies, a bit of a prick, a bead of blood then a century of sleep until a spell-breaking kiss brings the great awakening, happily ever after.

Dance Theater

A Feast for the Eyes: Dallas Museum of Art overflows with 300 years of Flemish masterworks

Lindsey Wilson·February 1, 2023

“Stepping into this exhibition truly feels like you’re embarking on a journey through time,” says Dr. Nicole R. Myers, Dallas Museum of Art’s interim chief curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon senior curator of European Art.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Reckoning with History While Interpreting the Future: Emancipation explored at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Lindsey Wilson·February 1, 2023

Today, a bronze cast of The Freedman can be found at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·January 10, 2023

In summer 2022, a little-musical-that-could defied the odds in Dallas. Produced as an independent entity, Cabaret at Arts Mission Oak Cliff had no established theater company backing it, no built-in subscriber base, and no big names attached.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

A Complete Vision: ISHIDA Dance Looks to the Future

Sherry Cheng·December 19, 2022

In one of the biggest Texas dance stories of the year, ISHIDA Dance Company, a contemporary dance company co-located in Austin and Houston, has just made Dance Magazine’s 2023 “25 to Watch” list, one of the most coveted accolades in the dance industry.

Austin Dance Houston

Moon Over Kathmandu: Lain Singh Bangdel at Asia Society Texas Center

Sherry Cheng·December 17, 2022

Twenty years after his passing, the extraordinary twentieth-century polymath and pioneering modernist Lain Singh Bangdel is finally getting some much-deserved recognition in the United States.

Houston Visual Art

Pulling it All Together: Cutting Edge Music Programming at Texas Performing Arts

Steven Brown·December 13, 2022

As everybody knows, the University of Texas at Austin has transformed its hometown thanks to its role as a hotbed of research. There’s more to that than churning out innovations in computers and technology.

Austin Music

An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’

Steven Brown·December 13, 2022

For all the glories of Carmen, La Boheme, Aida and the like, opera companies sometimes want to tackle a work that’s out-of-the-ordinary: Call it a statement opera. The urge came upon The Dallas Opera before the pandemic.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up

Nancy Wozny·December 8, 2022

It’s been way too long since I sat around the virtual table with our fabulous theater writers Lindsey Wilson and Tarra Gaines to chat about all things performing arts in Houston, Dallas and beyond.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Online Exclusives Theater

Texas Studio: Jose Villalobos

casey gregory·December 7, 2022

In my first brief conversation with San Antonio-based artist Jose Villalobos regarding his 2018 Luminaria artwork, La Carga de Tradición, the artist was incorporating dance-based performance with wearable sculpture.

Dallas/Ft Worth San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Serious Screentime: ‘I’ll be Your Mirror’ at The Modern

Donna Tennant·December 7, 2022

More than 25,000 square feet of gallery space at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are devoted to I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen (Feb. 12- April 30, 2023).

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Taking Shape: B. MOORE DANCE Lets Imagination Reign in Season Four

Lindsey Wilson·December 7, 2022

Last season, B. MOORE DANCE debuted four world premieres under the direction and choreography of founder and artistic director Bridget L. Moore.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Visual Art

Performative and All-encompassing: David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Accumulating Histories: Francesca Fuchs Redefines a Breathing Archive at the Menil

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Unbind Your Imagination: TITAS/Dance Unbound invites global dance into Dallas for 2025-26 season

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Twists of Fate: Myths, Drama, and Phenomenal Voices in Ars Lyrica Houston’s New Season

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet

Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

A Feast for the Eyes: Dallas Museum of Art overflows with 300 years of Flemish masterworks

Reckoning with History While Interpreting the Future: Emancipation explored at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

A Complete Vision: ISHIDA Dance Looks to the Future

Moon Over Kathmandu: Lain Singh Bangdel at Asia Society Texas Center

Pulling it All Together: Cutting Edge Music Programming at Texas Performing Arts

An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’

Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up

Texas Studio: Jose Villalobos

Serious Screentime: ‘I’ll be Your Mirror’ at The Modern

Taking Shape: B. MOORE DANCE Lets Imagination Reign in Season Four