The mystique of Truman Capote has only grown since his death in 1984. In Jay Presson Allen’s Tru, a one-man show about the writer’s enduring loneliness, Jaston Williams plays Capote as he “muses about his checkered career,” while soothing his wounds with vodka, pills and, of course, chocolate truffles. Williams…
“Wanna see some shapes?” this is the innocent question you’ll likely hear from artist Randy Guthmiller. To view the world as a collection of shapes is his modus operandi. For Guthmiller everything and nothing is a shape. (You’re a shape. I’m a shape.) And for his artistic practice he creates…
They break down barriers and find new ways to communicate. They take risks, but maintain the self-discipline required to create. They venture to the boundaries of art to bring back new discoveries, and they dedicate themselves to preserving what’s already here and valuable. In countless ways, they keep Dallas’ culture…
In her early 20s, at the beginning of her career as a professional dancer, Katelyn Harris thought she knew everything there is to know about tap dance. Then she started attending festivals. Part dance workshops and part performances, these weekend long events aren’t just places to work with some of…
Ronald K. Brown originally thought he would be a journalist or a playwright. Growing up surrounded by writers, it made sense; he had a knack for it too. But when he started doing musicals in high school, the dance passion took hold. During his childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant, he…
Carolyn Sortor’s Seismic Hive In a city with far too little video art, and an audience with little to no understanding of how to wade into the small pool that does exist, this weekend brings us exciting exhibition. Intermedia artist Carolyn Sortor works in whatever medium catches her interest. For…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Let’s just skip to the point we’d like to make about Jordan Roth, shall we? If a gallerist is his artists’ pimp, he isn’t your typical gallerist. Because Roth, who runs the downtown Ro2 Art…
This time last year, we were gushing over the Texas Theatre’s Life Aquatic parody. The favorite theater of discerning Dallas filmlovers, this Oak Cliff den of entertainment created the adorable sweded film as a promo for its first 2nd annual art auction/ Susie Sue/ Animal Charity fundraiser – an event…
Dating is hard. Dallas women are hard to figure out. Women are so complicated. Lies. Those are all lies. In fact, there are exactly 10 types of Dallas women you have dated. No more, no less. We know this, because we are on the Internet. We have scoped out the…
BY INKOO KANG Among many other things, Girls has always been great satire, lampooning with scolding empathy the callowness, narcissism and insufferableness of early-to-mid twentysomethings who are privileged enough to spend their post-grad years making mistake after mistake with no serious consequences. But the HBO dramedy’s fourth season, in which…
“Everyone asks me what kind of dancing we do. If you asked a ballet dancer what I do, he would say that it is modern dance. If you asked a modern dancer what I would, he would say that it is ballet. I feel that at the edge of each…
Keeping up with what’s going on in the always-busy Dallas arts scene is tough, especially if you don’t exactly have the cash to shell out $40 or $60 for an occasionally mediocre performance. The perception that taking in good art is expensive is pervasive, and it keeps many of use…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. When you hear Linda Stogner’s act on stage, you get the sense that she lives in her own little world where common sense and normalcy don’t exist. But as Joel Hodgson once said, “That’s OK,…
It’s Monday. The weekend went by too fast, and you’re not jazzed about being back at work. You started your countdown to 5 p.m. the moment you walked in. But when 5 hits, you don’t really want to go straight home, and you did make that new year’s resolution to…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Lots of people write plays. Not many get plays produced and put on a stage for audiences to see. Dallas playwright Jonathan Norton has been getting his plays out of his head, onto the page…
The sudden wave of earthquakes that swept across North Texas in the past couple of days also sparked a wave of concern about the practice of fracking in the natural gas industry. The earthquakes gave us quite a scare as well, but not because of fracking. We’ve been assured by…
What’s causing the Dallas earthquakes? (Most likely fracking.) Is it the long-dormant Balcones fault suddenly coming alive? (No.) Is it fracking? (Yes.) Is it the devil, here to claim Jerry Jones’ soul? (Maybe.) Perhaps the land is just trying to tell us we don’t need another goddamn music venue/plaza combination…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Some of the best art shows in Dallas happen in the smallest spaces. Take The Safe Room at the Texas Theatre, the lovely little room turned gallery tucked away at the top of the mostly…
If you’ve ever loved a terrible person, Mike Leigh’s quietly sensational Mr. Turner — a biopic, of sorts, covering the last 25 years of the life of the great 19th-century British painter J.M.W. Turner — is the movie for you. In his seascapes and landscapes, Turner found the perfect visual…
Describing Ava DuVernay’s quietly remarkable Selma to a friend, I caught myself referring to the civil rights era as a historical event, a thing of the past, and then backtracked. The killing of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice at the hands of police officers — not to mention…
Paul Thomas Anderson was making serious movies long before he started making “serious” movies, ponderous works of certified art like There Will Be Blood and The Master. His earliest pictures, like Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, and even the later Magnolia, were wily, imperfect, vibrating with life like yeast springing…
Without dropping spoilers right and left, how do I explain that I’m completely baffled by the Spierig Brothers’ retro-futuristic thriller Predestination? So the she that’s really a he is the earlier version of the he we meet later on, and the later version of the she who shows up near…
