Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical
An Interview with Wade McCollum Wade McCollum as last seen in Dallas as a ripped and highly sexual Emcee in the Dallas Theater Center’s terrific Cabaret in 2011. Now, he’s in his first Broadway tour in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, in which he plays Tick/Mitzi, the Hugo Weaving character in the 1994 Academy Award-winning [...]
Read MoreDance to the Beat
When Fela! premiered on Broadway four years ago, it re-introduced the music of the revolutionary Nigerian composer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and sparked a new interest in both the history surrounding Kuti and his Afrobeat music. On its second national tour, Fela! plays the Winspear Opera House May 7-19, as part of the Lexus Broadway Series. [...]
Read MoreartiFACTS: May 2013
Join moderator, Jeffrey Grove, the Dallas Museum’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art for “Take the Lens Cap Off: Trends in Photography”, a panel discussion with perspectives from a group of internationally known experts. The panel discussion will be held in the [...]
Read MoreNew Gallery Opens
Dallas has another new art space in Deep Ellum. Liliana Bloch, the former director of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) and later gallery director for Kirk Hopper Fine Art, swung open the doors of her own gallery last week. The gallery’s its inaugural exhibition [...]
Read MoreMaximum Overdrive
Every once and awhile you have to get a little outrageous. Tone down the seriousness, take a break from the theoretical, throw back a few beers and just let things be awesome… like an awful 80s movie kind of awesome. This is exactly the kind of excess Kevin Todora and friends have served up at [...]
Read MorePanoptics
Impressive works require sensible aspects that either allure or intrigue, and a conceptual couching that enhances or plays upon those sensible aspects. Put another way: you walk in and immediately enjoy or are pleasantly perplexed by what you see, and then, as you start to discuss it, think about it, maybe read some literature [...]
Read MoreFrom Hero to Icon
The phrase “character actor” might not come to mind when you think of a former Hollywood hunk who has starred in action films like Batman Forever, The Saint and, most iconic, Top Gun, but that’s what Val Kilmer considers himself after more than 30 years in Hollywood. So it’s fitting that the project to which [...]
Read MoreMy Brother’s Keeper
Bruce Woods Dance Project, Dallas “Between dreams and death, he waited for her homecoming.” This quote from poet Duane Michaels aptly sums up the Bruce Wood Dance Project’s “My Brother’s Keeper” that was staged at the Montgomery Arts Theater at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts March 15-16. Exploring the [...]
Read MoreNasher Welcomes Noted Design Critic
The Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Architecture Forum have announced that the chief architecture critic of The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, will be keynote speaker for the 2013 Dallas Design Symposium. Mr. Kimmelman will speak at the symposium in Nasher Hall on Sunday, May 5 at 2 pm followed by a book signing of [...]
Read MorePlay On!
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra announced this week their 2013-2014 concert season, a musical exploration of classical favorites, new works, and intriguing symphonic selections from other cultures. Major highlights include Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, the Dvořák Violin Concerto, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 [...]
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