It’s 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp, absconding with a couple of bedrolls and an air rifle, and leaving behind…
Cover your pornographic Tinkerbell tattoos and unhinge your wallets, my friends, the LEGOLAND Discovery Center (known to parents as The Toy Store Where You Have To Pay Admission) is unveiling its new attraction June 1 and it promises to be killer. And of course, by killer, I mean your 3-…
They’re going fast, but you can still snag tickets to see Bill Cosby on June 8th at the Winspear Opera House. I don’t need to give you a bio about this man; he revolutionized comedy — you know who he is. Instead, let’s watch this short art film titled “Gesticulations…
There comes a time in your mid-30s when you start to figure out some things. Like, you’re not really that good at dancing, yes you should get that looked at and no, you shouldn’t try to do that yourself. My ottoman is a perfect example. It’s a square. Well, a…
Due to inclement weather, tonight’s performance at Kidd Springs Park has been canceled and will not be rescheduled. Feeling blue about it? Let Milli Vanilli ease your strife. *************************************************************************************************** Sometimes we all need a kick in the pants to remember how good we have it. The DSO administers us a…
There isn’t a “splatter zone” for Dallas Theater Center’s production of the play God of Carnage, but maybe there should be. A massive, catastrophic bout of vomiting by a character happens early on, a wave of chunky barf that splashes over the scenery furniture and across the floor of the…
We’ll hand it to anybody who puts “kick ass” in the title of his workshop. We are, after all, living in a world that would define marriage in a way exclusionary to a mutant and his adorbs long-term boyfriend, so it takes a fair bit of chutzpah to dive into…
Last year a campaign was designed to raise funds for a unique experiment: Create a completely free to the public, new score and recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The plan was set loose on Kickstarter, exceeded its monetary minimum and is now complete, making it the first publicly-funded…
Memorial day weekend marked the third installment of Fort Worth Opera’s four-weekend long opera festival, as well as the company’s regional premiere of Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata. This year’s festival draws from a wide range of old and new, light and dark, serious and comedic in its offerings, and the four…
I don’t know the designated program time for TLC’s show “My Strange Addiction,” but its marathons battle “Hoarders” and “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” for “Most Serendipitous/Highly-Depressing Six Hours of Programming Catered to the Extremely Hungover.” Too dehydrated to change the channel, we watch as Bertha appeases her OCD demons…
Being an election year, you’d be right to expect that more than a few politicos will be crawling out of the woodwork to invigorate their respective bases and jostle the American public from its Twinkie coma to pull down some votes. And that’s exactly what we suspect MSNBC analyst Chris…
Let those wild crazy kids fest do keg stands this weekend, you’d rather take it easy. Well Tiger, you should scoot over to Fair Park, that’s where the City Arts Festival holds court through Sunday. With a throwback theme to car culture, this year’s fest features two complimentary outdoor flicks…
Our pet profiles series celebrates those supportive (and adorable) friends who round out the homes of notable members of the Dallas community. Names: Lucy, 7-year-old chocolate lab. Mr. Sandwiches 3-year-old terrier. Pretty Bird (Richard), 15(ish)-year-old parrot. Owners: Gretchen Bell and Brian Green (Dolly Python). Likes: Lucy loves other dogs. Mr…
While the musical component of this year’s Homegrown Festival reaches out beyond our region’s hemming, its arts vendors remain decidedly local. Frock flippers, silk screeners, painters and gadget-benders round-out the day’s visual flair. Here’s a few reasons to be psyched. Local artist and all-around supporter of talent Frank Campagna is…
When Ochre House founder Matthew Posey gets his teeth into something, he takes big bites. For his latest play, Cicerone, he’s masticating his way through the life and loves of Tropic of Cancer author Henry Miller. As playwright, director and star of this production, Posey gives himself the best role,…
As an artists residency explicitly tied to a university system, CentralTrak provides opportunities that surpass in both quality and gusto much of the city’s relatively comparable arts programming. It makes sense, of course, that many, if not all, of the panelists and moderators at any given CentralTrak event are not…
Dallas sprawls. It wraps. And at times, it isolates. But our city is better than its geographical pretzeling because its inhabitants strive to reach across the concrete divisions and unite over common goals, like advancement of the arts. Join a team of artists and curators this evening at CentralTrak for…
I spent an entire weekend hypnotized by Erica Felicella’s experimental art installation “Visible Shell.” She is the photographer and performance artist that we came to know as “The Girl in the Box” when she sealed herself in a plexiglass enclosure and embarked on a 48-hour path of self-discovery. She held…
At Fort Worth’s Stage West, Texas’ brashest political commentator lives again in the one-woman play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Actress Georgia Clinton portrays Ivins in the production directed by Dana Schultes. The 70-minute performance, written by twin journalists Allison and Margaret Engel, is built around…
The outpouring of sadness is immense. As soon as the report of Jeff West’s death broke on Monday, comment sections online began rapidly filling with those who’d known and loved his work with the Dallas arts community, a passion that had spanned more than 30 years. You will be hard-pressed…
Just because you have to work through Friday, doesn’t mean that A.) you can’t get an early start on fun tonight, and B.) you can’t strategically scope out your three-day party plan now. There’s so much great stuff going on: Somebody left festivals scattered all over town (don’t trip), there…
Are we barbarians under our civilized veneers? Or are we just big babies in grown-up clothes, ready to throw tantrums when we don’t get our way? French playwright Yazmina Reza’s Tony-winning 2009 play God of Carnage (translated by Christopher Hampton) asks those and other questions about adults who should know…
