FORT WORTH -- Barbs, booze and buffoons. Read more

BEDFORD -- It may be "unnecessary," but that doesn't mean it is not a must-see. Read more

Installing Dale Chihuly's brilliantly colored floriform art glass in a garden setting seemed to make perfect sense. Read more

The wide-eyed, redheaded, Depression-era urchin is back in the Casa Mañana Children's Theatre production of Annie Jr., a slightly scaled-down version of the Broadway musical based on the ancient comic strip Little Orphan Annie. Read more

There is a point in The Silence of the Clams when John Denver's wistful, down-homey Country Roads is heard briefly as background music. During an opening weekend performance of Uptown Players' snappy new production, the Rose Room Theatre audience began to sing along. Read more

Sex and religion are high on the list of subjects we are not supposed to discuss in polite company. That is why Geoffrey Nauffts' 2009 drama Next Fall -- making its North Texas premiere, in a flawed but very moving production by the Dallas Theater Center -- is so essen... Read more

FORT WORTH -- There is nothing quite so sticky as the web of one's own lies. Read more

FORT WORTH -- Golden ages are always in the past -- generally the remote past. But occasionally one gets a hint that the rule can be broken, that it's just possible that the present can represent an exceptional era. Read more

Addison — It's too bad that Tracy Letts' Pultizer Prize- and Tony Award-winning soaped-up duh-rama August: Osage County is cost-prohibitive to produce, what with its large cast and set requirements. Read more

FORT WORTH -- Think of her as the 19th-century version of Match.com -- on a computer with a really spotty Internet connection. Read more