Young playwrights play the old shell game with their work these days. They write a TV sitcom pilot or a screenplay but try to pass it off as a piece for the stage. It’s easier to get plays done and theater producers are always on the prowl for the next…
If you’re a gore geek like me or even just the general lover of the Horror genre, you’re going to want to clear your schedule because the Southwest’s premier Horror event, Texas Frightmare Weekend, is about to jumpstart its chainsaw and rip through the DFW Hyatt Regency. Every year, the…
Few were surprised at precisely how high Dallas ranked in the list of fashionable cities, which was compiled and posted by bundle.com last week. We reached number five in the nation, with Irvine, CA taking first, followed by New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in the other top seats. As…
Maybe you’ll try improv but decide sketch is more your scene. Take the plunge and learn a little something. Are you attracted to the storytelling aspects of comedy but never, ever, ever want to do stand-up? You might be an improv person. There’s safety in numbers with improv comedy, but…
It happens every Tuesday night at Texas Theatre: The cinematic garbage disposal gets all jammed up. Some brave soul then must plunge his fist in to find the source of the rattle — please don’t flip the switch during this delicate time. The slimy disturbance could be anything — a…
What’s that, lady? You want to cover yourself in fake blood and pose in a prom photo with Anthony Michael Hall? Yeah, get in line. This weekend is Frightmare, a three-day celebration of gore, grindhouse and general film havoc. Maybe you’ve heard of a certain 20th Century Fox project called…
Nerds of all ages united at the Hyatt Regency for Botcon last weekend, a convention celebrating all things Transformers. We have a few favorite pics from this fan fest; to see the entirety of Stephen Masker’s slideshow, go here…
This weekend the Dallas Opera went big and presented a simulcast of The Magic Flute at Cowboy Stadium. It was an attempt to break the world record for most seated attendees at an opera simulcast. (It didn’t quite make it; It seems we don’t do everything bigger in Texas.) It…
Next Fall, the Geoffrey Nauffts play now running at Dallas Theater Center, presents a family acting out more issues than an episode of Dr. Phil. Mom and Dad (played by Kieran Connolly and Candy Buckley) are divorced. Dad’s an old-school Old South bigot who hates gays and minorities, but loves…
Forty years ago this month, Peter Lord – along with his producing partner David Sproxton – didn’t realize the legacy they were beginning when they assembled clay figurines on a small kitchen table in Bristol, UK and proceeded to animate them. One. Painstaking. Movement. At. A. Time. Decades later, not…
Our pet profiles series celebrates those supportive (and adorable) friends who round out the homes of notable members of the Dallas community. Names: Picasso, Vincent and Salvador are brothers. Their mom was a stray cat, she had the litter in the art studio they now call home. Picasso is a…
I’ve always had sweet spot for Betsey, and I’ve amassed a tiny army of her fabulous dresses over the years, but always at a sacrifice. Mac and Cheese dinners accounted for the budgetary free-wheeling, but they were, and still are, some of my favorites. So my heart broke a little…
The idea started as a call to action in San Fransisco: Stop fronting the money for a traditional theater space and instead use your house, open it to the public and have the performance art equivalent to a garage band gig. It was wildly successful. Roadside theaters sprung up around…
When I found out that Tim Kerr had scheduled a solo show at Kettle Art, I got a little (read: quite) excited. In the past, the former member of the Big Boys has shown at Austin’s Domy Books and Longbranch Saloon, and more recently at Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, but…
On Tuesday night, Bridge the Gap Chamber Players put on their second free concert (The “White” Concert) in Heldt Hall at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC). I’ve seen Kitchen Dog Theater plays in this space but never considered the room as concert venue. It was a good choice for this…
As Joni Mitchell sings it, “sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” That’s sort of the story of what happened to the play Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home, written by Texas actress and playwright Mary Rohde Scudday in the 1970s, when she was 24, and produced back…
Have y’all noticed that something spectacular is happening? Dallas’ luxury swimming pools have opened and it still feels like spring outside — it’s like seeing a double rainbow during an eclipse. The universe doesn’t hold these seasonal portals open for long, so take advantage of this temperate weather and go…
Oh, good morrow, ye turkey leg and man with non-ironic leggings and non-ironic, odd beret-like cap upon his furry face! It’s that time of year again, Metroplexians! It’s time to run into that backed-up-out-of-nowhere traffic on Interstate 35 South near Ennis, where you eventually say to yourself, “Oh, crap, it’s…
Science, in its broadest sense, is about ordering and organizing knowledge. It’s human nature to tuck the sprawling mass of the natural world under a set of rules. But the universe is beyond our full understanding, says Kate Colin. The work in her Hyperchromagraph exhibition reflects this idea, featuring large…
There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway line, at least adds a bit of charged political reality to puncture Nicholas Stoller’s limp, hermetic comedy of deferred nuptials. Tom (Jason Segel, who co-scripted with Stoller), a talented…
Adam and Luke are the odd couple Neil Simon didn’t write. Funny, gay and in love, they’re the couple at the center of Geoffrey Nauffts’ tragicomic Next Fall, now onstage at Kalita Humphreys Theater. The Dallas Theater Center production was staged by artistic director Kevin Moriarty and features six damn…
There are people in the world who roll out of their beds each morning, stumble through their closets and manage to throw together an array of patterns, prints, colors and accessories to make An Outfit. These are the people you see at shows and at art openings who stop traffic…
