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Friday, December 27, 2024

Holiday Book Guide

Santa’s Stages

A New Nostalgia

Frightfest

Dark Tome

Arts

Arts

Mad Margot

Even in the most opera-crazed cities on earth — New York, London, Milan, Vienna — the world premiere of a new full-length opera is...

Holy Water

A performance last Saturday of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle was a change of pace from the traditional fare that makes up the bulk of...

Memoir of a Geisha

The wait is over. It’s been 14 months since we’ve staged an opera,” said Fort Worth Opera director Darren Keith Woods, who could scarcely...

True Grit

Next month, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth mounts a solo exhibit by Ron Mueck, the Australian artist whose hyper-realist figurative sculptures come...

On Site

In response to one of my recent columns, about the aggressive architecting of Big D ("Alarming Heights," April 11), the forum at John Roberts'...

Wonderful

Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland has been adapted a number of times in a number of ways, including dance...

Loco

Pantagleize Theatre brings a couple of parents-to-be to life at a crossroads. Someone once called live theater “the art of the improbable” because it involves...

Alarming Heights

Fact: There are more important examples of Modernist and contemporary public architecture in Fort Worth — three — than in any other Texas city,...

Death Becomes Them

In his six years with Texas Ballet Theater, artistic director Ben Stevenson has led the company back from the abyss. Before he arrived, TBT was...

Where the Wild Things Are

In art, theater, music, literature, film — basically, any artistic discipline — there are themes, and then there are themes. The fog of war?...