When you read “opening ceremonies attire” on the September Surrender event description, think latex. Latex, whips, dog collars, and anything else that you’d find in the kink section of your favorite sex shop. If you’re not part of that community, it will be unlike any party you’ve ever attended. This…
If you’ve sat in the Wyly Studio, cradling your sanctioned adult sippy cup, and listened to the presenters of Oral Fixation, you know the true life tales are something to cherish, something you feel special you got to hear first-hand. The themed readings of each season can sell out so…
One of the most infamous women in world history is the mysterious Egyptian queen Cleopatra. As penned by William Shakespeare, she’s the complicated centerpiece of the tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra. For the fall show of its 2014 season, Shakespeare Dallas mounts this somewhat historical romance in all its temptuous grandeur…
If Broadway is The Great White Way, you might call Turtle Creek The Great Rainbow Way this month, as theater group Uptown Players has returned to the Kalita Humphreys Theatre (3636 Turtle Creek Blvd) with its 4th annual Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival. The nine-day festival features plays, a concert…
The O’Jays were formed way back in 1958 in a high school in Canton, Ohio. So naturally a casino in Oklahoma will have yet another legendary act you didn’t have a clue still tours pop into town. Accolades for the soul and R&B group run deep: Seven of their studio…
Opening Undermain Theatre’s thirty-first season, we’ve got the world premiere of a play by Gordon Dahlquist, and it’s perfect for fountain-of-youth hunting Dallasites. Tomorrow Come Today is a futuristic sci-fi thriller about a world where the wealthy can exchange their tired, old bodies for fresh, young ones, allowing them to…
It’s been a while since you’ve done the time warp, hasn’t it? Somewhere between the step to the right and bringing your knees in tight, Saturday nights spent watching outgoing goth kids dressed as Magenta and Riff Raff went by the wayside. But everyone needs a bit of a mind…
Maybe Great Britain doesn’t strike you as a bastion of modern design—after all, it’s a nation associated with a certain primness, plus super stodgy dinnerware and post-apocalyptic public housing. But really, since the 1960s, jolly old England has churned out some of the most exuberant and fun pieces of design—like…
It’s little wonder Gordon Dahlquist’s newest play is science fiction. The first words of the upcoming Undermain Theatre world premiere,Tomorrow Come Today, were penned at a 10-day silent retreat in West Texas. “It’s not just not talking,” the Brooklyn-based playwright explains over lunch at All Good Cafe. “It was eight-and-a-half…
It’s a picturesque summer night. My mother is in town for the week. I’m taking her to the theater in the downtown Dallas arts district. With the simple hope that we confab over a cocktail before we settle into our seats at the City Performance Hall, we head to One…
This weekend, one of the country’s funniest foodies stops in at the American Airlines Center. Aziz Ansari brings his latest comedy tour, Modern Romance, to town at 8 p.m. Saturday night and according to him it’s so dope, he wants to give the tickets away. “I think this is my…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. “Sorry if the reception’s bad, I’m headed into a national sequoia forest,” Toby Halbrooks says, answering…
Merritt Tierce spent her mid-twenties waiting tables at a Dallas steakhouse. She was a writer, sure, but she spent most of her days serving the elite and struggling toward 30. That this experience would serve as formative life experience and become fodder for her first novel, Love Me Back surprises…
Tonight in Denton at Dan’s Silverleaf local author Darin Bradley will officially release his second novel Chimpanzee complete with a live rendition of the audioplay of the novel. Bradley released his first novel, Noise, through Random House in 2010 while he was still working as a lead video game writer…
Monday marked the season finale of Bachelor in Paradise and honestly hopefully it was also the series finale because this spinoff of The Bachelor was one big snore. The episode begins with six couples remaining. Until, of course, host Chris Harrison shows up to inform everyone in a formal sit-down…
The Six Flags theme parks are known for giant roller coasters and drop rides that are designed to pull whatever you’ve been eating out of you in new and curious ways. It’s an ingenious business model when you really think about it. The less food in your system, the more…
My last day in Venice always makes me blue. On the way to my final screening, a tourist with an Eastern European accent I couldn’t quite identify stopped me a block or so from the sad and shuttered Hotel des Bains and asked me if it was open. “I have…
It’s rare that one of the more difficult categories to choose for the DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards is “Best New Play or Musical.” But with Dallas Theater Center leading the charge and the smaller companies rising to the occasion, this year in Dallas/Fort Worth theater featured numerous new plays…
Mixmaster presents “100 Creatives,” in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Know an artistic mind who deserves a little bit of blog love? Email lauren.smart@dallasobserver.com with the whos and whys. Michelle Rawlings is one of the emerging Dallas-based painters we’ll be able to say “we knew…
At the biggest comedy event in Dallas/Fort Worth this year, three names on the bill are a little bit more local than the rest. Stand-up comedians Christopher Darden, Josh Johnson and Clint Werth have been touring the local clubs, bars and any other places that will let them set up…
There’s a lot of Beethoven in the bloodstream this month. Just in time too. In the wake of summer’s blast-furnace oppression, a whole lot of Beethoven is just the ice bath we need to ready ourselves for another season of classical offerings. We have prodigies, a world-class violinist, some Shostakovich,…
The first time I remember classical music, I was sitting in Morton H. Meyerson’s box. I was staring, wide-eyed at the organ for one of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s noon recitals. Like most things at eight years old, I was convinced someday I would play that monstrous instrument. But we…
