We’ve got an extra day to work with this week, courtesy of some Gregorian-era calendar wrangling, and what better way to celebrate the 2016 Leap Year than by taking on a week full of new ideas and inspirations? Dallas will deliver just that— taking advantage of February 29 to kick…
Before Stephen Costello finished graduate school, he was charming North Texas audiences. Enrolled in Academy of Vocal Arts in his hometown of Philadelphia, the operatic tenor was tapped to fill in for a night as Rodolfo in a Fort Worth opera production of La bohème. “I’d worked with director David…
DALLAS SYMPHONY 2-26-2016 Thursday night at the classical subscription concert of the Dallas Symphony at Meyerson Symphony Center, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto once again played the role it has fulfilled so well for 130 years. Dramatic musical gestures (e.g., that riproaring introduction), echt-romantic melodies (as in the sweet, not-quite-gooey middle…
We’ve all been there. You finally get around to watching this year’s nominees, and you think, “Didn’t I see pretty much this same Oscar-bait movie last year?” You probably did, thanks to the McKee/Weinstein-driven formula behind most Best Picture noms. You can even build your own! Just mix and match…
What is Shakespeare for a young audience? What should it be? Should it accessorize a high school lit class? Should it be a training tool for emerging actors? Should it be a compelling work of theater? Does it need to be forever produced to preserve and progress the theatrical…
Do This! If you want to give yourself over to absolute pleasure this weekend, you won’t want to miss the Oh, Rocky! Burlesque at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. The Texas Burlesque Peepshow pays tribute to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in a classic…
Doris Salcedo:Plegaria Muda Last year, the Nasher Sculpture Center announced Nasher Prize, a $100,000 award for a contemporary sculptor, in the vein of the Pritzker Prize. It signaled the Center’s serious exploration of the future of the art form, but it also threw Dallas onto the international map in a…
Dallas has a solid foundation of fine arts to go along with its brash, honkey-tonk image. Here are some places to feed your head. — Lauren Smart, arts and culture editor Nasher Sculpture Center 2001 Flora St., nashersculpturecenter.org Part world-class sculpture garden, part museum, the Nasher Sculpture Center is one of…
Even in a place like Dallas, where you can’t throw a credit card without hitting a shop or boutique at which to max it out, shopping can get a little boring. Once you’ve established your favorite haunts, it’s easy to get stuck making the same old trip to NorthPark and…
If you’re interested in local yokels, they don’t get more yokel than these two. One’s from Plano and the other, Fort Worth. It’s a classic tale of modern romance where boy and girl meet aboard a Richard Branson space flight. (Not really, they met online, but who cares? SPACE JETS.)…
DR Hanson is a busy man: he’s an actor, director, and most recently a feminist crusader. Hanson has been hired as a director by Bishop Arts Theatre Co., which is producing a One Act Festival of six plays- all written by female playwrights “I am consistently shocked at how few…
If you’ve wondered just why Hollywood now so aggressively courts Chinese viewers, look no further than The Mermaid. In just two weeks of release, Stephen Chow’s fantastical comedy has already brought in $430 million in its home country, making it China’s highest-grossing release ever. (It’s doing well here, too, having…
In the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of those sports — bobsledding and luging are others — where Joe and Jane Satellite Dish cannot tell the difference between a great performance and a terrible one unless the athlete is carried away on a stretcher. No doubt there are crucial…
Bad cop movies — whether bad movies about cops or movies about bad cops — can be like those Arctic core samples from which scientists determine long-gone CO2 levels, though in this case they’re measuring American anxiety about police authority. Pop on John Hillcoat’s agonized pulp thriller Triple 9 in…
Here comes the money! 24 hours removed from having a majority of wrestling fans fuming, the WWE pulled another rabbit out of their hat when Shane McMahon returned last night on Monday Night Raw after being away from the company since 2009. And oh yeah, he will be facing The…
It’s probably not a coincidence that February, the worst month of the year, becomes the busy season in Dallas theater. The post holiday hangover has passed but it’s still not spring. We need something to do, to invigorate us into leaving the couch. New works and premieres are popping all…
The sound of pounding mallets pour out of Felipe Ramirez Jr.’s small red-brick house in North Oak Cliff. He’s hammering a new heel onto a pair of boots, just how his father showed him. “There are people [in DFW] who do belts and wallets and seats, which is all good,…
The eighth episode of this season of The Bachelor aired last night, which for every season means the chosen Bachelor visits his remaining ladies’ hometowns, which means he probably meets an over-protective father and possibly too-drunk-for-TV mother. Last night was no different. The ladies paraded Bachelor Ben around their hometowns…
The Wrestlemania 32 card began to take form last night at “WWE Fastlane” as Roman Reigns defeated both Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose in a #1 contender match to face Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Wrestlemania. With a little less than 6 weeks…
Flutist Marina Piccinini made clear from her opening comments where Friday night’s concert downstairs at the Nasher Sculpture Center was headed: toward those twelve minutes of ear-splitting energy otherwise known as Boulez’s Sonatine for Flute of 1946. Getting there was half the fun, in a program which was part of…
If you want to find some drama to dive into, you don’t have to look far right now. You could jump right into the Tent City debate, get riled up about Ted Cruz, or ignite a heady debate over hosting porn conventions in a city that refers to itself all…
Even if you aren’t familiar with the drunken, poetic stories and words of comedian Kyle Kinane, you’ve at least heard his voice. The Chicago native who has three very funny comedy albums and two Comedy Central specials to his name has also done voices on animated series such as “Aqua…
