Afterimage Photo Gallery is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the 40 Exceptional Photographs exhibit through Tuesday, November 15. Ben Breard opened the gallery in the fall of 1971, and while Afterimage initially catered to local photographers, it quickly expanded to represent nationally known photographers. Forty years is a long run,…
Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. this Saturday, which is only really important to those in the agricultural industry and college kids who know it means the bars are open for an extra hour. The only benefit we see is the extra hour of sleep we’ll get, which means…
Kristin Chenoweth, star of the upcoming GCB on ABC, was originally scheduled for a NasherSALON appearance on November 18. But filming a new television series means priority goes to, well, filming a new television series… Nasher Sculpture Center has sent word that to accommodate Chenoweth’s filming schedule, the event has…
“Oh, that sounds awesome! Let’s see that.” “It’s only open in New York and L.A.” “I guess we’ll just have to stay home and watch reruns of Hoarders all weekend. Lame.” Don’t let this happen to you. Again. Every Friday, Opening Credits will provide you with a peek at what’s…
Musical America thinks what’s been conducted is fantastic, but let’s be honest, it’s focusing on what’s going to be conducted and who will be waving a special Super Conductor baton for the next year. 2012, y’all. The performing arts news organization named Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Jaap van Zweden Conductor of…
Theater Caps are bite-sized punch-packing capsule reviews by resident theater critic Elaine Liner. Use them as a reminder — or a teaser, if you procrastinate — of her full-length reviews in The Mixmaster’s weekly sister. Once again, Irving’s Lyric Stage has found gold in an old, rarely done American musical…
AIDS. Is it something to celebrate? Of course not. Is AIDS research and education? Yes. Is the attention paid to HIV and AIDS for three decades within the arts community something to applaud? Absolutely. In 1981, the CDC documented the first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or what is most…
Nothing — and I mean nothing — was off limits last night at Bass Hall. Joan Rivers joked about it all, from falling vaginas to fat people needing two airline seats to Michael Jackson kiddie sleepovers. The show opened with Brad Upton. He did the whole bitter, old guy humor…
A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against penthouse. Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the manager of The Tower, an exclusive apartment building on New York’s Columbus Circle (the Trump International, in fact). Josh’s job is to know…
The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s hubristic claim to “know what it feels like to be God,” to Jurassic Park’s criticism of “scientists [who] were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop…
There is a fiddler and there is a roof in Rags, the 1986 musical getting a splendid revival at Irving’s Lyric Stage. But those aren’t the only things it has in common with that other piece of American musical theater featuring Russian Jews belting show tunes. The books for Rags…
As if the tasseled breasts, acrobatics and flashes of sensual skin aren’t enough, Viva Dallas Burlesque performs Beggar’s Carnivale! with a vaudeville twist. The event features top burlesque dancers from St. Louis in an act that blends slapstick theatrical style with graceful aerial maneuvers from infamous burlesque dancers of the…
Many of you have experienced sibling rivalry. You loved your brother and your sister even though they pulled that prank on you at the dinner table the night before. Pillow fights, bathroom “hogging” and “she ate my cookie” were common incidents back in the day. Max and Ruby are no…
The Statue of Liberty is arguably the most recognizable monument in New York, but few things say freedom and liberty these days like a boardwalk hot dog or resemble the huddled masses like the crowded Astroland Park. Photographer Harvey Stein has sought to capture the ever-changing nature of the “poor…
MBS Productions presents the world premiere of Octavia, a play banned for centuries by the Roman Empire because of its political content. Set in 90 A.D., the romantic tragedy follows tyrannical Roman Emperor Nero and his wife, Octavia. The play presents multiple challenges Octavia faces, including what it means to…
Even though Halloween has come and gone, the folks over at the McKinney Performing Arts Center are keeping the spook alive. On November 5, the MPAC, located in the renovated historic Collin County Courthouse that was rumored to be haunted, will host a paranormal lecture series. Speakers for the event…
If you’ve been to the Dallas Zoo lately, you’ve likely noticed that it’s a heckuva lot better than it has been in years past, and much of that success can be attributed to its privatization in October 2009 and fund-raising efforts like the annual Zoo to Do. Celebrating its 20th…
We live in interesting times that beget interesting fears. Our nightmares aren’t so much of the monster and zombie variety, but rather ideas like environmental decline, technological alienation and human rights issues. These fears are found in the Latina Dance Theater Project’s The Slumber of Reason, a darkly comic performance…
What does a plot that involves four grown women fighting over a “sexy” cable guy make you think of? If it rhymes with scornography, then shame on you. It is actually the premise of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters play Love Won’t Let Me Wait, onstage through Sunday…
Sarah Vowell appeared on The Daily Show last year to promote The Wordy Shipmates, her set of essays on Puritan America. She was talking about the history of Rhode Island when the host suddenly interrupted her. “You’re very smart,” Stewart said dreamily, gazing across the table at her. She really…
It’s not always easy to entertain preschoolers, but the folks at Dallas Heritage Village have an activity for the sippy-cup set that’s more fun and educational than that Elmo DVD your kid has watched a thousand times. Barnyard Buddies is back, and this installment, Saddlebag Supper, features a craft activity…
What do a desk, logs, cardboard boxes, buildings, a train, fans, radios, a tractor, a bed, blocks, toy trees, a dollhouse, Saturn, record players, a grandfather clock, train cars, cash registers and Tinker Toys have in common? Nothing and everything. Almost everything anyway. That’s the central message in Lance Letscher’s…
