Favorite Five is a new series where we’ll go into the homes of some of Dallas’ coolest kids and document their five favorite things. Know someone worthy of a nom? Type it in the comments below. When you’re a normal person and you’re renovating your house, you get overwhelmed, drink…
In The Mountaintop, the provocative one-act about Martin Luther King Jr., now playing in the sixth-floor studio at the Wyly Theatre, we learn that the revered civil rights leader smoked Pall Malls on the sly and had smelly feet. He also had a thing for hot coffee and a wandering…
Thursday, Oct. 1 Deep Vellum’s Tram 83 Reading In Tram 83 Fiston Mwazna Mujilla, with the help of translator Roland Glasser, conveys all the grit and even the occasional glamor of an unnamed African city with a distinctly musical voice, something the two plan to replicate when they stop in…
Desperation, anxiety, stubbornly saying yes to survival: If grand struggles are your thing, there are plenty in Ridley Scott’s The Martian, based on Andy Weir’s popular novel, which was first self-published in 2011 and then picked up by Crown in 2014. In both novel and movie, American astronaut Mark Watney…
Since 1963, the Austrian birthrate has halved. You can’t blame Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s Goodnight Mommy for the trend, but it sure isn’t helping. The quiet creepshow follows 11-year-old twins Lukas and Elias (Lukas and Elias Schwarz, great), who suspect their mom (Susanne Wuest) wishes they hadn’t been born…
Those of us who have been waiting forever for Joseph Gordon-Levitt to make a musical now have the next best thing: In Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, this breezy Puck of an actor plays high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who walked the space between the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974…
The minds of math and science geniuses have long fascinated the makers of crowd-pleasing narrative features, which is curious, as the complexities that fascinate those minds are antithetical to the feelings-first bounce of popular filmmaking. The movies, having settled into candied naturalism, already struggle to suggest interiority, even of characters…
These days Dallas is a place with quite a few film festivals, which gives movie lovers a choice, variety, and a chance to see original, shoe-string budgeted films they may not see anywhere else. In short, Dallas is just getting more awesome. Coming up is the 28th annual Dallas VideoFest…
“In the beginning was the stone and the stone prompted ownership” is how Fiston Mwanza Mujilla’s Tram 83 opens. An epigraph that serves as an elusive foreshadowing of the story that follows. The stone in question is a diamond, African diamonds, to be specific, which have prompted a diamond-rush in…
Travel now back to the 5th century B.C., to the Theatre of Dionysus in ancient Greece. In the shadow of the Parthenon, a couple strolls out of opening night of a new satirical comedy (with satyrs) by early Greek playwright Aristophanes. Scowling, the woman turns to her date and says,…
Don’t let the title fool you. Fix Me, Jesus, the new play by Helen Sneed that just got its premiere at Theatre Three, isn’t about religion. Not unless you put your faith in shopping as an answer to prayer and think of the NorthPark Center Neiman Marcus as the Vatican…
This morning, Dr. Maxwell, L. Anderson, who you know as the guy who has been running the Dallas Museum of Art, stepped down from his post. He will be taking a position as Director of Grant Programs with the New Cities Foundation, an organization which states its vision as “a…
Saffron Herndon and her dad, Steve, are at Uncle Uber’s right next to Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum on a Saturday afternoon. The 10-year-old approaches me and shakes my hand. We immediately begin discussing music, including the band The Cure. I embarrassingly tell her I’m unfamiliar with them. “You’re…
Being broke is the actual worst. Not only are you worrying endlessly about paying the bills and having enough cash to support your booze habit, you also can’t afford to get out and do anything to distract you from all that fretting. Fortunately, this week there is plenty of interesting…
Her writing and editing materials are arranged neatly downstairs on a desk at one of those places where people—usually freelancers and contractors—who work alone but who probably shouldn’t work alone all the time—can check out desk space, have a sense of community without having to know anyone on the daily,…
The message of Matilda the Musical is that words have power. How awful then that at the London-to-Broadway-to-national-tour production that opened Thursday night at the Winspear Opera House the audience was powerless to understand most of the words coming off the stage. It’s not a microphone issue; they actors are…
Imagine a world in which the actors are the greatest rebels and theater is contraband. This is the world of Meg Miroshink’s new play, The Droll (Or, a Stage Play about the END of Theatre), which has its world premiere at Undermain Theatre Saturday. Inpspired by the Puritan Interregnum in…
Nowadays, dancers and singers and artists can’t solely rely on their artistic talents. They also must tap into their business-minded side and come up with a plan. Lily Cabatu Weiss knows that better than anyone. The artistic director at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts…
Bill Burr’s has a career worth bragging about. He’s more than just a very funny and clever stand-up comedian with a legion of dedicated fans who pack houses like The Majestic Theatre, which they will do tonight when he steps out on the stage at 8 p.m. He has released…
When talking about Dry Land, director Sarah Hamilton explains, “It’s not necessarily an abortion play, but it’s clear from the first scene that an abortion is going to happen.” The latest show from Upstart Productions, which opens Friday night in a cavernous warehouse space near Trinity Groves, is a female…
Thursday, Sept. 24 The Droll Anyone who has fallen in love with theater will likely rhapsodize about the anticipation when the lights grow dark and the curtain rises. Or exactly what play or musical it was. And for them, or us, imagining a world without theater would be absurd, or…
Alicja Bielawska: Reference Points for Potential Constellations If the work on display in Cydonia Gallery this week seems familiar but you just can’t quite put your finger on it, you’re engaging with what the artist considers the “limits of the past,” or exactly how our perception is tied to to…
