Comedy is hard. Musical comedy is harder, much harder. Musical comedy requires great timing and delivery for the comedy part. The other half requires a dancer’s build, a strong voice and hours of sweaty rehearsals and run-throughs. Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino, the hosts of Earwolf’s musical comedy podcast Off…
Double-stuffed with kill squads, killer ’80s couture, and mood-killing howlers, Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Loving Pablo is more a greatest hits than a story, the kind of radically compressed life-of-a-legend movie where everything happens in a giddy, ridiculous gush
Its leads, feminist writer Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti), a one-time wunderkind of no-budget theatrical productions, find themselves desperate to conceive a child even as the doctors they pay (with borrowed money) thousands to speak frankly of the odds
Each beat of this plays out with exquisite delicacy, as does the exchange where the crook lays out, with exacting detail, how he’d rob this diner if it were a bank — and then takes it all back, letting her think he was joking
The new comedy film The Oath would sound like a totally unthinkable dystopian world at any other time in history. Except now. The Oath, written, directed and starring Ike Barinholtz, who came to town for an advance screening and Q&A last month at The Angelika before its limited release Friday,…
October is here and now that the weather in Dallas went from 98 to a cool 96, people are ready to get in the fall spirit. Pumpkin spice is in the water, fake cobwebs are strung from the ceilings and haunted houses are opening their doors for business. Whether it…
To fall in love with A Star Is Born is to embrace these paradoxes and, to quote a song Gaga sings in the film, go “off the deep end” and submerge oneself “far from the shallow.”
When the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall formed back in the 1980s in a weekday slot at a Toronto rock club, comedy troupes were a rare commodity. Now thanks in part to The Kids in the Hall’s massive rise as a comedic touchstone, more of them…
It’s hard to know where to start a discussion about Neal Brennan’s career with the man himself. In fact, the idea makes him laugh. “I didn’t really have an end goal,” Brennan says. “I guess I always wanted to be a popular comedian. I’ve always thought that’s the coolest thing,…
The sounds of children’s amazement and the adults’ laughter rise in mixed harmony and respectfully fades as the man onstage focuses on his next illusion. The magician’s broad smile evokes the confident demeanor that the crowd is right to trust in him, to believe him, but his eyes tell the…
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra just launched its 2018-19 season with a black-tie gala event and visits from Grammy-winning guest stars. Across the street, at the smaller, more casual Moody Performance Hall, the other symphony orchestra in Dallas is preparing for its seventh season with slightly less fanfare. The Dallas Chamber…
We hope you’re thirsty because two tall drinks of water are coming to town. Drew and Jonathan Scott, twin brothers, best-selling authors and stars of Property Brothers among other major career ventures, are making a pit stop in Frisco to promote their first children’s book, Builder Brothers Big Plans. Women…
As her marriage opens up, and Colette begins to take lovers of her own, Knightley summons up a moving sense of both relief and recklessness
At times, Green’s film feels too familiar, exploring what we already know — cops can be dirty and may retaliate if they’re crossed
The idea practically sells itself: Kevin Hart has to take night classes to get his high school degree, and Tiffany Haddish plays his suffer-no-bullshit teacher
Young Anna (Galatea Bellugi), intense and charismatic in the manner of another teenaged French seer, reports that Mary has imparted to her a message calling for the building of a church and caring for the world’s poor
Friday “Our state fair is a great state fair; don’t miss it, don’t even be late.” While that incredible show tune wasn’t technically sung about the State Fair of Texas, we know it could be applied to us. Sept. 28 marks the beginning of the State Fair of Texas and…
Theo Ponchaveli is the man behind that mural you’ve probably taken a photo in front of. An acclaimed artist and longtime Dallas resident, Ponchaveli has painted murals of Selena, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali and both JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald — the last of which earned him ire and applause…
Ultimately a story about brotherhood, friendship and the insecurity of life in a violent place, the film injects a sweetness and innocence into the genre, mostly through one stellar performance by John C. Reilly
If you feel your arteries starting to clog and the fragrance of animal feces won’t leave your nose, don’t be alarmed; it just means the State Fair of Texas is almost here and your body is preparing. From Sept. 28 to Oct. 22, the State Fair magically transforms Fair Park…
During one of Kristianna Davied’s modeling shoots, Davied says a male photographer convinced her to take her top and bra off. Because she wanted to reach her full potential, the photographer was able to manipulate her into thinking she could not do that fully clothed, she says. “A lot of…
Transpose Extended will dive into the challenges transgender individuals face. “We’re talking about the trans people and their families,” says Alejandro Lex Treviño, Arttitude board member. “How their transition affected them from their individual basis.” Arttitude, a Dallas nonprofit that serves to unite the LGBTQ community, will screen the film…
