Fly By Night
Not long after he took over Texas Ballet Theater five years ago, director Ben Stevenson produced Dracula.
The main difference between then and now is...
Top Registers
For Jubilee Theatre's current gospel musical, Crowns, set designer Judd Vermillion has turned the back wall of the stage into what looks like a...
By Foote
The program for Fort Worth Theatre's current revival of The Trip to Bountiful mentions at least three times that the city's 53-year-old stage institution...
Dying with Dignity
There's no need for issuing "spoiler alerts" with a play titled A Lesson Before Dying.
Just a few minutes into the opening scene of Jubilee...
A Turn (and Jump) for the Better
From a humble American beginning at the San Francisco Ballet under war-rationing restrictions in 1944, The Nutcracker has become a national Christmas tradition, performed...
Burning Brightly
I’ve been a theater critic for about a dozen years now, and I’ve never heard anyone say, “I can’t wait to see that show!...
Reality Bites
North Texas’ vampires are in danger. Clubs, hotels, hot spots, and other holy places are being attacked by a dangerous enemy.
The blood-suckers are even...
Serpentine Fire
You can celebrate this Halloween season with a visit to any of the Fort’s elaborately themed and bedecked haunted houses.
Texas is the nation’s...
Big Time
It took a lot of courage for Fort Worth Symphony conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya to schedule a three-year Gustav Mahler cycle as part of the...
Black Man + White Woman = ?
Playwright-director Neil LaBute generally comes in one flavor — bitterly misanthropic — but his works can be divided between the nasty/grumpy variety and the...
