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Fort Worth Opera’s Brief Encounters Shine
Fort Worth audiences have come to expect contemporary opera selections as an almost accepted part of the company’s annual music festival. They’ve also come...
Finding Mañanaland
“A lot of people think ‘mañana’ means tomorrow, but really it means ‘just not today,’ ” Michelle Kirk told me recently.
Kirk, cofounder of Fort...
Seeing Red
What’s not black or white but splattering red all over Maverick territory? At Theatre Arlington, John Lang’s Tony-Award winning Red has been distilled for...
Out of Focus
There is a distinct whiff of sweetness in the air as you enter Fort Works Art. It is coming from Fabiola Valenzuela’s floor sculpture...
The Skin We Live In
In a city where artists can have a difficult time achieving professional advancement or become “career artists,” Fabiola Valenzuela may be upending that trend....
Blessed Wood
Last year, while Stickman – a short film about a homeless Dallas man who found fame carving walking sticks – was showing on the...
Standing “O”-vation
Some women are better potty mouths than others. In Stage West’s latest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit...
The Art of Collection
When attorney Sam Myers and wife Myrna Myers moved to Paris in the mid-1960s, the young couple, both second-generation Americans from working-class families, were...
Take ’Em Down
WARNING: The following information may be hazardous to incurious men, women, and children with little or no serious education, who are already being treated...
The Little Trio
The rehearsal abruptly paused.
“Does it feel like we’re dragging?” soprano Allison Stanford asked.
“Yes!” pianist Cheryl Lemmons and clarinettist Leslie “Pinkie” Simmons collectively replied.
The trio,...
