Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya started the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s preseason Music Festival some years back to provide summer employment for the musicians while at the same time exploring offbeat programming. Beginning with four-day surveys of a single composer (Beethoven being the undisputed champ), he later pared it down to three days, a more manageable series from a listening point of view. (Four days of Brahms, no matter how much you admire his work, was pretty heavy going.)
Stage West
has never been afraid to set up unique theatrical challenges for its actors. The company’s 2007 production of Marie Jones’
Stones in His Pockets
feature...
Theater artist Erin K. Orr, 36, spends most of the year in New York City, but she likes to “summer” in Texas. It’s not the hundred degree-plus temperatures that...
Back in 1992,
Jubilee Theatre
artistic director Ed Smith saw a Los Angeles production of Sheldon Epps’s jazz and blues revue
Blues in the Night
. Although it starre...
The story of the brilliant artist as raging egomaniac is an appealing one, probably because it allows us to see our worst character traits as somehow contributi...
Chow, Baby didn’t really — maybe a little bit, but not really — expect its
Taco Bell Cantino Tacos
($1.49 each) lime segments to
talk out loud
, like on the commerc...
From
9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
on
Friday
at
the Where House
(2510 Hemphill St. on the South Side), the
Funkytown Fall Festival
will take place, featuring (in order of appearance...
Before
Machete
was a real movie, it was a fake movie. For their 2007 double-bill
Grindhouse
, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino had four trailers created for n...