Fort Worth Opera Sings
Comedies from both ends of the spectrum opened the Fort Worth Opera Festival last week at Bass Performance Hall: Don Giovanni, Mozart’s dark look...
Tammy Gomez Emerges
Whenever something challenging happens to poet and spoken word artist Tammy Gomez, she immediately asks herself one question: How can I turn this into...
Great American Trailer Park Packs a Punch
Throughout the first act of Circle Theatre’s production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, I had the nagging sensation that this raucous, perfectly...
Stage West Tames The Lonesome West
Over the last 15 years, playwright Martin McDonagh — born in England to Irish parents — has pioneered a one-man theater of cruelty. His...
Spelling Bee Scores
The word “cartoonish” is typically used as an insult, but it describes all the best qualities of Theatre Arlington’s tearfully funny staging of The...
TBT Revives The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty is a lot for any ballet company to chew on. It includes an enormous cast, many solos, lots of character...
Butterfly Helps Illegal Gringo Crosser
A little more than two years ago, Paul Edwards decided that the time had come to chase his lifelong dream. He owned a successful...
La Llorona Haunts Amphibian
One of the things that inspired Kathleen Anderson Culebro to write La Llorona, her supernatural-tinged drama currently being staged by Amphibian Productions, was the...
Copenhagen Chills Stage West
Every so often, Heisenberg’s 1927 principle of uncertainty –– a foundation of quantum mechanics –– pops up as a theme in art. The Coen...
Circle’s Opus Rings True
Here's a prediction: You won't find a more gripping ensemble performance in North Texas this year than the performance by the five actors who...
