Hard to think of a more perfect song than “Bang Bang” for WaterTower’s Bonnie & Clyde cast. Directed and edited by Michael Scott McNay, it features the actors dancing and lip synching to the joint single by English singer Jessie … Continue reading
Circle Theatre in Fort Worth will kick off its 2015 season with the local premiere of My Name is Asher Lev. Aaron Posner’s 2009 stage adaptation of Chaim Potok’s 1972 book about a young man struggling to reconcile his Hasidic … Continue reading
Michelle Merrill, a conducting protégée of Paul Phillips at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, has been named assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Merrill gave a most impressive performance last March as a late replacement for Phillips in … Continue reading
Alexandra Bonifield has a terrific interview on her Critical Rant blog with Susanna Moross Tarjan, the daughter of the late composer Jerome Moross. Tarjan, who started a website, moross.com in honor of what would have been her father’s 100th birthday, is … Continue reading
Black Nativity, a Christmas show created by poet and playwright Langston Hughes, kicks off TeCo Theatrical Productions’ new four-play season for 2014-2015. The LGBT PlayPride Festival, which launched successfully this year, returns to conclude it, with six playwrights competing for audience … Continue reading
Protests over the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of the John Adams opera “Death of Klinghoffer” prompted me to go back and re-read my review of the 2011 Opera Theater of St. Louis production. Interestingly, my reaction to the opera then … Continue reading
Matthew Tomlanovich, a longtime professor, director, actor and mentor in the Dallas theater community, died Sunday, Oct.19, after battling complications ensuing from an MRSA infection that left him paralyzed and hospitalized in a Dallas facility since April 3. He was 54 and spent his … Continue reading
Zombies invaded the DMN studio Monday. Being a super sleuth, I deduced they’d taken a wrong turn on their way to Dallas Children’s Theater where the Teen Scene Players are performing in Night of the Living Dead. Not to worry, … Continue reading
The Texas Book Festival is this weekend; if you’re a regular reader of our books pages — and really, you should be — you already know that all the authors featured there this weekend are scheduled to attend. If you … Continue reading
It was guaranteed to happen sooner or later, and tonight was the night. My cellphone went off during the DSO’s Remix concert, during the Falla “Seven Popular Spanish Songs.” It took me a moment to figure out which pocket it … Continue reading
