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FWSO Goes for Baroque
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...
More than 39 Steps
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...
Cowtown Puppetry Festival
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...
Is He Blue?
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...
Sharing a Constructive Spirit
Modernism is sexy. And not just because Mad Men is set during the period of the style’s apex, the early 1960s, though there’s no...
Something Intangible Shines
The story of the brilliant artist as raging egomaniac is an appealing one, probably because it allows us to see our worst character traits...
Amphibian Goes to School
In Amphibian Stage Productions’ slick, antic production of Billy Aronson’s contemporary sex farce The First Day of School, one character frets that it takes...
A Lone Star at Piano Texas
A classical music star was born last week at the final concert of the Piano Texas Festival in TCU’s Ed Landreth Auditorium. If one...
Leading Ladies Lights Up
In the angsty, ironic world of contemporary American theater, there is perhaps no gutsier statement for a playwright to make than “My plays are...
Gem of the Ocean Glitters
With the current production of Gem of the Ocean, Jubilee Theatre has given the late August Wilson’s lyrical 2002 drama its Southwest premiere. As...
