Review: Fela!
Raucous and defiant, electrifying and exhilarating, Fela! is a very different musical, blending a wide variety of attitudes and moods, sometimes angry, sometimes coy, sometimes soothing, sometimes sexy, sometimes groping for the mysterious and spiritual. Sprouting from the hybrid Afrobeat songs (jazz, funk, highlife, traditional Yoruban chants [...]
Review: Roger Winter
Venerable artist Roger Winter shows new oil portraits and a decade or more of collage and photomontage works at Kirk Hopper Fine Art this month. His ease working in various media and with various levels of abstraction is demonstrated beautifully. The show contains three large new [...]
Maximum 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 [...]
Panoptics
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 [...]
My 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 [...]
Review: Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine”
While some works are made with a wide audience in mind, others are addressed toward smaller communities, like fellow artists. And for both better and worse the content and presentation of Jason Flowers’ “Critique Machine,” in the Project Room at Conduit Gallery [...]
Review: Red
Dallas Theater Center What is the nature of brilliance? What is the nature of genius? Are those destined or determined to wrestle with the searing, implacable issues that plague we poor, pathetic mortals, doomed to a life of misery and inconsolable rage? These are questions [...]
Review: Anything Goes
AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas Broadway actress Rachel York seems to have it all: impeccable comic timing, a deftness for dance, and a dynamic voice that carries all the way to the rafters. The triple threat was in fine form for Wednesday’s opening night of Anything Goes, the latest [...]
Review: The Chairs
Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas Lights up on an older couple in a large space with two chairs set in the middle. The man is standing on a box next to a window while the woman lights a couple of gas lamps. Scott Osborne’s wonderfully grubby set is certainly solid and detailed (nothing vague about it) [...]
Review: Michael Miller “Out of Commerce”
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas The MAC’s Square Gallery Show – Michael Miller: Out of Commerce – is a colorful cartoon-filled room of happiness. Michael’s work generously reaches out to draw you in and reassure you that whatever you see, it’s O.K. His technique is loose and repetitive; made decorative with squares of fabric attached [...]
