Thursday, May 27 Stop Hitting Yourself Charity has always been something that the fortunate pride themselves on giving. However, rarely is charity given at the cost of competition. Fortunately enough for you, Rude Mechanical’s production of Stop Hitting Yourself provides that sort of satirical insight. Think of it as some…
Phyllida Barlow: Tryst If the Nasher Sculpture Center has taught Dallas one thing (and surely the number is vastly larger), it’s that sculpture transforms its environment, and vice versa. Fill a white walled room with golden balloons and entering it becomes an adventure; fill the same room with technicolor dirt…
Kitchen Dog Theater’s final play in its longtime home at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary is The Firestorm. What a title for a damp squib of drama by Meridith Friedman, getting an undeserved “rolling premiere” starting at KDT and moving on to other theaters elsewhere. Directed by Tina Parker, The Firestorm…
The smartest man in Radio Golf isn’t the man with money. That’s just one of the home truths in August Wilson’s final play in his epic 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle. African American Repertory Theatre’s strong production of Radio Golf benefits from sharp, well-directed performances by five hometown actors who click with…
The San Andreas fault stretches 810 miles up the Pacific coast, roughly the length of a dozen Dwayne “The Rock” Johnsons lying end to end. When it rumbles, we’ll need all 12 of him to spring into action — although, as Brad Peyton’s San Andreas warns, that still won’t be…
A movie about bringing down druglords that’s actually mostly about movies, Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection is stretched over driven-cop beats so familiar American audiences could probably follow it without subtitles. (It’s in French — add that to the title, and you get a sense of its police-film ambitions.) It’s a…
Good or bad, Cameron Crowe movies build to improbable declarations of sincerity, to the great acts or speeches a man must loose from himself into a world too cynical to value them. His heroes always must filibuster regular life with their decency. Superficially, these acts and speeches are performed in…
This Is the First Time the Rude Mechs Have Been to Dallas Just a quick hop down 35, the state’s most interesting theater troupe call Austin home. There, for the past two decades, they’ve been devising new work that has earned raves from critics for its inventive staging, satirical wit,…
We know, we know — it has rained. A lot. It is probably raining right now as you read this, which only makes you more likely to give into your hermit instincts and refuse to leave the house until the Trinity River looks normal again. Looking at the forecast for…
Three years in the making, Francisco Moreno’s The WCD Project was open to the public as an exhibit on Friday and then fully realized with a 5-minute performance piece on Saturday night at a Trinity Groves warehouse. Part of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural Soluna Festival, Moreno’s study of cultural…
As soon as word got around over the weekend that Theatre Three founder and producing director Jac Alder had died, local actors and others started swapping stories. Alder, 80, had been hospitalized last month with pneumonia and was in ICU for several weeks, but had rallied and returned home to…
In this series of articles, Leslie Moody Castro takes on the role of journalist or interlocutor to explore the inequity in the creation, curation and exhibition of art. Read more here. By Leslie Moody Castro This week is has been bittersweet. This is the last in this series of articles,…
In space, no one can hear you scream (or speak French, which is tragic because it’s so difficult to learn), but at the Texas Theatre, you can howl as loud your lungs will let you. Where I’m going with this: TT is doing a double feature tonight of Ridley Scott’s…
Before Giovanni Valderas was the director, the Cliff Gallery at Mountain View Community College wasn’t exactly an essential stop for those who visit art galleries on the weekends. But in the last year and a half, Valderas has turned the gallery into a hotspot. Now Valderas is ready to activate…
What’s music apart from the production and organization of sound? Truthfully, not much. More or less, that’s it. That’s music’s skeleton. Allow some space to take into account certain conceptual nuances here and there and you have its flesh, too. Of course, there’s a lot of wiggle room left in…
In “Language Saved,” one of eight short stories in Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories, Russian author Mikhail Shishkin writes, “The experience of a language and the life lived through it turns languages with different pasts into non-communicating vessels.” Translation is mutation, he insists, which makes Deep Vellum’s release of the…
There are a few things that terrify me. Cockroaches are up there. It’s the way they can disappear into anything, like, say, light switches or clown’s mouths. When I was a kid, I imagined Michael Myers following me with a sharp, glinting axe. Now, I’d like to officially add a…
Your long weekend is on its way. On your way home this afternoon, you’ll want to pop into the corner store grab a 12 pack of Shiner Prickly Pear, stick them in your fridge, and then save them for Monday. Because there’s a lot to do around Dallas until then…
Given the recent events that took place this past week at the Kessler, I feel like it may be time for everyone to relearn customer etiquette. As someone who has worked years in the service industry, I can tell you first hand that there is a certain amount responsibility that…
During “Compliments,” a first-season sketch on Inside Amy Schumer, a group of female friends respond to every bit of praise with a verbal self-maiming: “I tried to look like Kate Hudson but ended up looking like a golden retriever’s dingleberry,” says one. Sighs another, “Of course I see everyone when…
Disney has a genius way of turning large sums of money into even larger sums of money. The executives at Disney probably laugh at the size of Scrooge McDuck’s money bin for being small and unsightly as they back stroke through one the size of a college football stadium. With…
truly, madly In a conversation with gallerist Brian Gibb, he shared that one of his biggest professional regrets was a missed chance for The Public Trust to be the first exhibitor of a now big-name artist. It’s one of the reasons he pounced on collaborative photographers, Kasumi Chow and Desiree…
