She Stoops Don’t Stop
Asking a Texan to act with a British accent for two hours is like prodding a knight to swim the Rio Grande in a...
TBT’s Beauty and the Beast Thrills
The story of beauty and the beast has been around for quite a while. Scholars trace its beginnings to ancient Rome. The first modern...
The Bible: Heretically Hysterical
Bringing back the most popular show in a theater’s 18-year history may sound like a holier-than-thou undertaking, but, to paraphrase the good book, he...
Final Examinations
Like its predecessors, the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition proved to be a grueling and exhilarating run, giving music fans 17 days’ worth...
Cliburn Competition: Preliminary Hearings
What is there to say about hearing 30 pianists in four days? I use my experience going to film festivals for this publication to...
Backlot Bromancing
A new season cometh and bringeth with it a transition away from the dark comedies of winter to the lighter-feeling dramas of summer. Playing...
Alice in Wonderful
To stage Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with its array of exotic characters, is a major effort for any company. Texas Ballet Theater...
Opera Out of Doors
The weather turned unseasonably cold and windy midway through last Saturday, and undoubtedly that had an effect on the attendance for Fort Worth Opera’s...
Falling for The Trap
Finding comedy in anxiety is laughably attempted by many, clinched by only a few. In The Trap, British playwright Kieran Lynn’s affinity for dark absurdism goes one...
Mayor Carmen
After the Fort Worth Opera’s board of directors angered classical music fans in February by firing general director Darren Woods (“Aria for Woods,” Feb....
