DALLAS -- Props are tricky things to involve in modern dance, but that doesn't stop choreographers from using them. They were prevalent at the opening performance of the three-week-long Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival, which is co-presented by Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth at the Bath House Cultu... Read more

FORT WORTH — The symbolism of the titular name given to a fallen man -- it's thought he fell from a downed plane in World War II over the British Channel Islands, occupied by the Germans -- in Moira Buffini's play Gabriel is so strong that the audience is sure he's going to sprout ... Read more

FORT WORTH — As if we needed to be reminded that we were in for a night of entertainment, Broadway great Bernadette Peters began her show at Bass Performance Hall Saturday night with Let Me Entertain You from the musical Gypsy. Read more

The ballet companies associated with Fort Worth dance schools, such as Ballet Concerto and Ballet Frontier, continued to up their quality in 2012, but not enough to outshine the formidable talent at Texas Ballet Theater or the gains by Fort Worth choreographer Bruce Wood, who has triumphantly ret... Read more

This art year ending in the number 2 was filled with anniversaries, which bodes well for 2022, 2032 and beyond. Read more

All across North Texas, 2012 was a stellar year for theater. In Fort Worth, Stage West had its best year ever, financially speaking -- and a strong artistic year as well. Circle Theatre and Casa Mañana also had solid years, Jubilee and Pantagleize took risks, and new, small groups like L.I.P... Read more

DALLAS -- It's tough to pull off Grand Guignol-type, Victorian-era horror in a musical. Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd handles it deftly, but in Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, it comes off as unintentionally campy, or at least it does in t... Read more

The small linoleum cut prints of forest scenes by Fort Worth-based artist David Conn are intriguing. Read more

In 1948, newlyweds John and Catherine "Kay" Christian had a vision for their dream house. The professor of bio-nucleonic research and pharmaceutical chemistry at Purdue University and his wife wanted a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Their budget was $22,000. Read more

IRVING -- You could gauge the popularity of a ballet school by the number of children they cram into that one show that makes the school the most money every year: The Nutcracker. Read more