We are perpetually lucky with the quality of production given to opera in Dallas, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t curious how performances are put together elsewhere. As part of the Dallas Opera’s Baritones and Beach Balls summer educational series, you’re invited to enjoy a classic opera tale the way…
Neverland seems a little less romantic now that more and more cash-strapped young adults are stuck living with their parents and providing a not-so-empty nest. Still, for those out there who still yearn for another kind of arrested development, the high-flying adventures of Peter Pan are coming to Fair Park…
Big on the group exhibition format, Cohn Drennan Contemporary brings another collaborative show for your mixed-media enjoyment. An annual presentation of artists who have not yet shown at the gallery, the 2012 Summer Group Exhibition features Michelle Brandley, whose paintings reflect ideas of self-worth in a celebrity-driven culture; M. Kate…
No marriage is exempt from some level of strife, including the ones between Catholic nuns and the Big J.C. himself. Hollywood has long mined nunneries for drama (and horror and comedy), and that’s because the sisters have a lotta story to tell. For instance, Saint Bernadette, whose mean-as-a-snake mother superior…
Not unlike the infamous heroine of the 1982 Tommy Tutone earworm (we won’t even mention the name, it’s so relentlessly catchy), Dallas native Courtney Miles’ own telephonic ruminations focus on fame, though perhaps recognition of a different type. A self-professed “celebutant,” Miles has constructed an alter-ego for her exhibition, 214-808-5569,…
Just because a troupe has the word “theater” in its title doesn’t mean it actually has a theater to perform in, let alone any kind of permanent venue. That’s one of the driving ideas behind the Festival of Independent Theatres, now in its 14th year of promoting Dallas’ dramatically inclined…
Perennial envelope pushers, the artists/residents of CentralTrak are known for “climbing the walls” in acrobatic feats of cutting-edge art, but this time, they’re planning to tear ’em down. CentralTrak alumna Cassandra Emswiler and incoming resident Sally Glass bring you Sheet/Rock, a joint exhibition springing from the collision and convergence of…
If someone brings up the name Sinbad in conversation and the first thing that comes to mind is the comedian, then this show may not be for you. On the other hand, if that same name conjures images of the swashbuckling adventurer known for taking on the living dead, giant…
Allen, Texas artist Tanner Lawley is painting the hell out of North America in a project called “UNIFIED, We Stand.” He began work on July 4th (duh) attacking one state per day, each on a 4’X4′ canvas, at this scheduled rate he’ll have the entire project completed by late August…
Rolling off of last year’s success, the Uptown Players announced that, following popular demand, a previously unplanned Dallas Pride Performance Arts Festival has just been scheduled for September 9-15, coinciding with the 29th Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade on September 16. (Applications for which can be found here, with an…
The Humane Society of Dallas has a cool, new gadget installed in its catitentiary. It puts us one step closer to existing in the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And you know what? I ain’t mad about it. Just click this link and you’ll go…
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Aside from having the Wild West’s most enviable surname, Catherine Horsey is a craft beer enthusiast, avid Red Dirt music listener and serious mandolin picker. And, despite the fact that she found her way to Dallas as an adult, she is as integral to the city’s cultural preservation as any…
Bart Weiss is a man of many camera angles. He’s the artistic steering power behind the Dallas Video Festival (which enters its 25th installment this September), serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, and sits on the Board of Directors of…
Distribution companies for Asian cinema have been in steady decline over the last decade, often citing illegal downloads and lackluster international market response as the culprit when they fold. For lovers of the genre, this means that fewer funds are being put towards the creation of new films, making it…
Our local fashion designers spend their lives toiling over pleats and hemlines. It’s often a thanklessly driven mission. Long nights fine-tuning each stitch results in little payback unless the market drive exists to purchase those looks, and it should. Dallas is bursting at the seams with talent. This Sunday, July…
Walter White’s life of crime began in a busted-up 1986 Fleetwood Bounder. For Dallas fans who have followed the Breaking Bad protagonist’s story since the beginning, the last ride begins on the Rooftop Patio at Sundown at Granada July 15, where the bar will screen every episode of the show’s…
Kettle Art’s walls were covered in love letters to aquatic subculture on Saturday night at the opening of “Ripple Effect,” the new group show curated by Amber Campagna. Like the best communal endeavors, “Ripple” turned me on to a couple of artists that I want to know more about, most…
One can fear and/or loathe technology all one wants, but that doesn’t change the fact that the world has shifted at lightning-speed over even the last few years. With smart phones permeating popular culture, trickling down to virtually every American’s palm, the fundamental basis of many careers has changed. Imagine…
No doubt about it, getting gorgeous actors into Bible-based musicals and Shakespearean tragedies definitely ratchets up the “let’s go see it” factor. Right now Dallas/Fort Worth stages have a bumper summer crop of beauts, male and female, trodding the boards. It’s hard to winnow the list to a mere 10,…
Beasts of the Southern Wild may be director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it. Aside from winning four awards at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, the film got picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight – the studio behind…
Check your URL, because you haven’t inadvertently clicked over to The Onion. Dallas was ranked 19th in the Top 25 Big Cities for Art by AmericanStyle Magazine in its June 2012 Summer issue. (Up from 24th in 2011 and 2010). Granted, we didn’t get a fancy write-up like the big…
