Dallas Theater Center will produce nine shows next season (up from seven this season), five of them back at DTC’s original home, Kalita Humphreys Theater on Turtle Creek. That may be good news to theatergoers who prefer the free parking at Kalita and the more bottom-friendly seats at the 55-year-old…
As midnight approached on March 24, 1998, the residents of Garland tuned in to channel 18 to await God’s television debut. If the predictions of new resident/cult leader Hon-Ming Chen proved accurate, the Lord would interrupt regularly scheduled programming at 12:01 a.m. to announce his impending descent on the Dallas…
Over her oven, Clare Floyd DeVries affixed a “Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop” sign. She’s a far cry from the cannibal baker in Sweeney Todd, it’s just a souvenir from one of the many sets she’s designed. “I do actually make meat pies,” she laughs. “Probably not the same kind though.”…
Her on-air personality is typically a hardcore mean trainer, who motivates The Biggest Loser contestants by most of the time yelling in their face…
If you haven’t heard the news by now because you’ve been out of town, in a coma or some kind of bizarre parallel dimension that doesn’t have a good Wifi connection, Conan O’Brien is bringing his Conan show to town to tape a week’s worth of episodes at The Majestic…
A scant number of actors, painters, dancers, comedians, writers dancers, magicians, musicians or mimes (those are still a thing, right?) devote a full day to their crafts. Most have day jobs or night jobs. It’s hard out there for an artist. Maybe there just isn’t enough money to go around…
There’s a revolution brewing just off Greenville Avenue. With a handful of cords, a projector and a few speakers, a DIY collective waves its middle fingers in the air at the fine art market. This is Two Bronze Doors. By day a small, nondescript house sits right off Lower Greenville’s…
If you didn’t notice, there was a period there when Deep Ellum had a bit of a hard time. Bars closed. Concert venues closed. The tattoo parlors, well, the tattoo parlors seemed oddly unaffected. But you get the idea. General downtrodeness. But now, with places like Pecan Lodge moving in…
The folks over at Fun House Theatre and Film can do no wrong. They’ve earned critical acclaim and numerous awards for new perspectives on works by everyone from Edward Albee to David Mamet. What’s different about them? They only cast kids. This weekend, masterminds (at least according to us) Jeff…
Fashion fever is not new to Dallas. Have you ever been to friggin’ NorthPark Mall? People in this city earn and burn money fast and they spare no expense to look good. Why? Photographs, for one. For society pages, we’ve got Paper City, Beverly Drive magazine, Modern Luxury, and Patron…
The Dallas comedy scene has grown up so much so fast that among our evolving flock of chuckle monkeys, we now have “young comedians,” which in show business terms is somewhere in between the “neurula” and “tadpole” stages of comedy stardom…
All through The Fortress of Solitude, the huge new musical playing now at Dallas Theater Center (co-produced with New York’s Public Theater), we wait for that magical moment. Musicals need that moment. The good ones all have them. Eliza Doolittle’s “rain in Spain” linguistic breakthrough in My Fair Lady. The…
If you count forward from Jim Henson’s mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, that would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don’t see…
Here’s the rare current-affairs documentary that doesn’t just show us something gone wrong in some part of our world. Rachel Boynton’s first-rate Big Men instead peels the skin off the world itself, revealing the gears as they grind away, casting familiar doc scenarios in shades of illuminating gray: The heroes…
For more than two decades, Alain Guiraudie has been unrivaled in depicting desires that upend convention, whether homo or hetero. In the comedy The King of Escape (2009), for instance, a middle-age gay man falls in love with a 16-year-old girl. The film ends with an all-male gerontophilic ménage quatre…
Dystopian movies don’t have to make sense. As the audience, we’re obligated to sit down with our popcorn and soda and pretend that yes, of course, in the future monkeys rule the earth, women can’t bear children, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is an everyday construction worker. It’s a mutual contract of…
Somewhere in between black and white there are shades of gray. The varied tones of this intermediate color have inspired novels. At the intersection of black and white you discover lead or ash. Kettle Art Gallery’s new exhibit focuses on these Silver Linings with an exhibition composed entirely of grisaille…
Where does a memory rest? And more important, what does it look like? Could an artist capture it in a painting? In her latest series, Rebecca Carter attempts exactly that. Using machine stitching on digitally generated color fields, she uses linear forms to create images both familiar and strange. She…
The only thing better than supporting local vendors is doing it while you throw out a high kick or two. That’s Rock & Shop hosted by Mad Girl Productions. It’s an all-day shopping extravaganza-bonanza where $15 gets you unlimited re-entry and free drinks. (Tickets are $5 without drinks, but no…
Surrealism, born out of Dada in the 1920s, is one of art’s most important, influential and lasting movements. It dominated the 20th century, inspiring artists of all media, often leading them to create new media altogether. While the names Dalí, Miró and Duchamp come to mind when surrealism is discussed,…
Few moments in life feel more fulfilling than telling some horrid, debilitating disease to go do something to its mother that is anatomically impossible, even for a microscopic organism. You’ll be able to do just that at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Grotto in Fort Worth. The appropriately named nonprofit…
Bach played at speed-metal tempo: check. Tap dancers sweating buckets: check. Side story about Mozart in a comedic love triangle: check. This is The Bach and Wing — Live Classical Music Tap Dance Extravaganza, the latest from Open Classical. They’re the mad classical geniuses who brought you amplified chamber music…
