Bleeding Love
They say love hurts. In playwright Rajiv Joseph’s love story, Gruesome Playground Injuries, love indeed leaves scars. Romeo and Juliet have nothing on the often funny, possibly tragic, and always gripping, tale of Kayleen and Doug. They’ve suffered life’s slings and arrows, its heartbreaks, its electrocutions, and its blunt force traumas. Now, about to hit [...]
Read MorePretty In Pink
The work of French artist Anne Ferrer falls somewhere between the living and unliving. To put it more precisely, her works on paper, wearables, and large-scale pneumatic sculptures are at once material and immaterial, made from stuff as tough and memorable as a shiny polyester tarp patterned in pink and red argyle and evanescent and [...]
Read MoreFlying High
Candied peanuts, popcorn, clown cars, and flying ladies. That’s the circus. Or is it? That antique thought is one that the Montreal-based group 7 Fingers intends to break down. Founded in 2002, 7 Fingers’ initial goal was to bring circus to a human scale. They began as artists on stage, creating collectively, and soon branched [...]
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New Music Director for Dallas Opera
General Director and CEO Keith Cerny announced Frenchman Emmanuel Villaume as the 56 year old organization’s 3rd Music Director at a press conference this morning. Regarding his choice, Mr. Cerny explained, “Over the past year, I have actively sought input from a wide variety of sources, both inside and outside Dallas. I was delighted to [...]
CLOSING SOON: Theresa Chong: Drawings
Theresa Chong: Drawings, on view at Holly Johnson Gallery since February, will close May 11. Theresa Chong’s delicate works on rice paper consist of meandering lines punctuated by minute painted elements that convey a sense of rhythm, meter and lyric beauty. References to opera, architecture, calligraphy, and literature abound in her work, but at its [...]
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