Home  >  Arts

Cultural District

Surveying our ecletic arts scene, from the galleries to the stage.

Theater review: ‘Fly by Night’ at Dallas Theater Center

GG7AAPQJ.10

Photo

The concept that everything we know of life in our galaxy (and beyond) is essentially born from stardust, and therefore we are all connected on a cosmic level, is a theme that rarely feels trite. It’s almost too poetic for that — and it reaches poetic heights in the Read more

'Enron' is a compelling production

'Enron' at Theatre 3

The gap between perception and reality is obvious to many; but as is increasingly happening with corporate culture in America, that divide is hazier than the Beaumont air. It was certainly that way for Jeffrey Skilling, the man who was picked by Kenneth Lay to run Houston energy company Enron, an... Read more

‘Forever Plaid’ co-creator comes back to Fort Worth

G9QB8J3H.4

Photo

In the 1980s, when actor and TCU alum Guy Stroman was living and working in New York — he had been on Broadway in Peter Pan with Sandy Duncan, the show that began in Dallas and brought him to the Big Apple — he was asked by Stuart Ross to join a new sho... Read more

Theater review: 'Steve Jobs' at Amphibian

Amphibian Stage Productions' decision to stage Mike Daisey's monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is probably the boldest programming choice of any area theater this year. It would have been a natural for Amphibian's two-performance reading series, as the ... Read more

Cowboys Stadium scores with massive simulcast of Dallas Opera's 'Turandot'

ARLINGTON -- You don't usually see an opera patron clutching a plush toy. Read more

Grapevine High wins six Buckley awards for ‘Chicago’

Grapevine High School’s production of Chicago emerged as the big winner at the 13th annual Betty Lynn Buckley Awards at Casa Manana on Thursday night, garnering six awards that included best musical and best actress for Sarah Roach. Read more

‘Proof’ near perfect

— It is not a who dunnit, but there is a great deal of evidence examined in Onstage in Bedford’s solid production of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play, Proof. Read more

Jubilee Theatre’s ‘Knock Me a Kiss’ is a knockout

Knock Me a Kiss

Buddy Myers

FORT WORTH — They all have eyes, but not everybody sees in Jubilee Theatre’s fine production of Charles Smith’s Knock Me a Kiss, which opened Friday. Read more

Alessandro Deljavan faces the music after the Cliburn

Day2 Cliburn semi 102

Star-Telegram

At 2 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan sinks deep into a living room sofa and sips from a tiny glass bottle of Coca-Cola. Read more

Just the right fit for Trinity Shakespeare Festival’s new ‘Shrew’

The Taming of the Shrew

Picasa

The Trinity Shakespeare Festival opened its fifth season on the TCU campus with a gorgeous and mostly satisfying production of the beloved comedy The Taming of the Shrew at the Hays Theatre on Thursday . Read more

Page 3