CityArts Festival: This festival has morphed through the years but is comfortably settled now in Fair Park. There'll be artist booths, lots of local chefs in the culinary section and three stages with music and arts performances. 6-10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturda... Read more

Fortunately, the Fort Worth Opera's new Marriage of Figaro has musical pleasures aplenty. It needs them to compensate for a theatrical conception that's pretty much a mess. Read more

FORT WORTH -- Some stage productions succeed on the strength of their scripts, while others win us over with their performances. Read more

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Nathan Louis Jackson has written plays that have debuted at New York's Lincoln Center and written for TV shows such as Southland and Shameless. And he has temporarily lived in both cities that are home to the theater and film industries, New... Read more

So many festivals pop up this time of year in North Texas, mostly because you can be outside for more than 10 minutes without the soles of your shoes melting onto the pavement. Sometimes it can be hard to tell them apart. Read more

Stan Lee Presents Dallas Comic Con : Stan Lee will only be there Saturday, but you may have heard of some of these other attendees: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The ... Read more

Jake Heggie's Three Decembers is close enough to soap opera to present some challenges to a producing company, but the Fort Worth Opera's effective new production meets those challenges well. Sunday afternoon's opening performance in Scott Theatre at the Fort Worth Com... Read more

FORT WORTH — In view of the great success of last season’s ultrafamiliar "Il Trovatore," hopes were high for the Fort Worth Opera’s presentation this season of another beloved masterpiece of similar stature, "Tosca." Read more

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