The new season finds Maeve (Thandie Newton), the host who played madam to Westworld’s bevy of robot whores, scouring the park for the daughter she was given in a previous “narrative” … and who continues to haunt her dreams
It centers on Villanelle, a deranged assassin — Russian, of course — working on behalf of a shadowy organization, and Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), the British-born, American-raised MI5 officer who must track her from London to Paris to Moscow
It’s not an act. When comedian Lewis Black is screaming into a microphone on a stage or thrusting his pointer fingers at the camera to punctuate his rage during one of his editorials on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, it’s not something he picked up from his years in theater…
Kitchen Dog Theater, now in its 27th year, recently premiered Pompeii, a musical comedy about the ill-fated citizens of the eponymous ancient city in the final days before the eruption of Vesuvius. The doomed residents of Pompeii serve as stand-ins for all of humanity going about their day-to-day lives just…
All you need is a big breath for some big lips. We’ve all seen the mega-glam, mega-large lips spilling over our Instagram feeds. Although I like to think of Julia Roberts as the O.G. big-lip queen in the ’90s, this trend is at an all-time 21st century high. It’s not…
For the next few months at the Checkered Past Winery Wine Pub, you might hear a commotion coming from a curtained-off area. A peek behind the curtain shows a crowd laughing one second and gasping with amazement the next. The magician onstage is not pulling rabbits out of hats. Instead…
After more than seven years at the helm, Keith Cerny resigned his position as CEO/general director of the Dallas Opera in December. Six months later, the Dallas Opera announced its choice to replace him. Ian Derrer is the new CEO and general director of the Dallas Opera, the eighth in…
Working from a novel by Willy Vlautin, Haigh has committed himself to making a boy-and-his-horse movie that’s scraped free of everything false or sentimental about the genre
As presented in Sweet Country, the attitudes and events leading up to the abolition of slavery in Australia play out as frighteningly similar to our own
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Soluna International Music & Arts Festival moves out of the Arts District on May 12 and heads to Deep Ellum for a one-night music and art and tech extravaganza at the Bomb Factory and Canton Hall. Soluna is teaming up with Capital One to present Array,…
When Jeff Colangelo and Katy Tye, the co-founders of Prism Movement Theatre, were fellow students at Southern Methodist University, they had the idea to create an unspoken theater that focused on movement. Almost six years and many performances later, the duo is sharing their experience and unique approach to theater…
Stephanie Johnson may or may not have gotten married at the airport to a man she just met and then spent a month traveling with. Lifetime’s new show Love at First Flight brings together four perfectly matched couples to meet for the first time and then sends them off on…
Friday Ska by Skawest celebrates all things ska and punk. For its fourth year around, catch 19 bands over two days that embody elements of ska, reggae, two-tone, rocksteady, third wave and dance. Of the bands taking the stage, Denton-based The Holophonics has taken its roots as a ska cover…
The problem with I Feel Pretty isn’t that it’s offensive but that it’s often plodding and unfunny, almost as if its creators are afraid to have too much fun with such a loaded premise
A “pictorial snipe” is anything added to a movie poster after its original printing, local artist Maxx Henry-Frazer says. Official changes are often made because text or imagery is deemed offensive, but Henry-Frazer is taking a more creative approach to this technique by painting pop-culture icons onto vintage posters. He…
Sculptor James Akers just moved to Dallas from Virginia, and he brought his neon art with him. “I love to create with a hacked, DIY, electric aesthetic that aims to subvert the fine art finish fetish by emphasizing artistic intent and showing the steps that led to the sculpture’s creation,”…
In the 1880s, the spot that is now the Dallas Heritage Village was home to the first public park, known to locals as Old City Park. Photos from the early 1900s show tree-lined streets and stately homes in this area of town outside of Dallas’ central business district. In 1905,…
Wednesday Docs, shots and songs — Thin Line Fest has them all Wednesday through Sunday at a variety of locations in Denton. The festival offers free general admission for a host of events, including a documentary film fest, a series of live music and a photography exhibition. Films (primarily shown…
Alan Avila, better known as “AlanAvi,” went from kicking a soccer ball with his soccer cleats, to virtually moving a soccer player with a video game remote. FC Dallas, a Major League Soccer Club, signed Avila as its first eMLS professional player and finished fourth in the first eMLS Cup…
Bread is an entertaining and gripping play about the secrets family members keep from one another. It explores the differing perspectives held by people who share much in common. And, it serves as a historical document recounting the heritage of a city. The world premiere of Bread, a politically charged play…
Comedian Maria Bamford may be brilliant at playing with comedic concepts and characters and finding new ways to elevate her art, but she says she doesn’t have goals beyond doing comedy. “The goal is to just keep doing it,” she says. “I don’t have any higher aspirations except to make…
“This is a David Lowery production,” says a 7-year-old Lowery at the end of Poltergeist, his short film shot with a home camera. It starred his little brother in a sheet and showed promise even then. Now 38, Lowery is still proud of that first cinematic attempt and posted it…
