Arts
Beautiful Festival of American Song
EDWARD BROWNAmerica has left an indelible mark on the world of vocal music, thanks in no small part to composers like George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, among others. The American song genre can be difficult to define, though, since it pul...
Judging Excellence
Artspace 111 does something crazy and puts on a juried show. And it’s a doozy.NICOLE CRITES AND ANTHONY MARIANI
Artspace 111 has always been a little nontraditional. For decades after its founding in 1980, the studio/gallery in a warehouse on a desolate eastern edge of downtown was a gritty, appointment-only exhibition space, quietly con...
Smells Funny
A budding medieval plastic surgeon comes of age in Amphibian Stage Productions’ new comedy.JIMMY FOWLER
“The nose is the seat of the face!” declares Ulrich (Brandon Murphy), a medieval master plastic surgeon from Vienna, to Gavin (Scott Zenreich), an orphan and surgeon-in-training. The eager young protégé wants to learn the...
Right-to-Hate State
The Tea Party is just the most recent radical-right movement to grip Texas.JIMMY FOWLER
Now that the country has reacted with disgust and amusement to the extremist 2014 Texas Republican Party platform, the next logical question is: Where did that platform’s piquant combo of modern alienation, paranoia about the...
Drag Strip’s Pinter Play
Local modern troupe tackles the legend’s wily Old Times.JIMMY FOWLER
Much has been written about the enigmatic, vexing work of British playwright, screenwriter, director, and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, who died in 2008 at the age of 78. He began his career on the 1950s London stage, writing c...
Samurai: Killer Style
Armor, helmets, masks, and serious scholarship make this Kimbell exhibit a winner.NICOLE CRITES
Apparently, ancient Japanese samurai were as stylish as they were fearsome. Though Samurai: Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection has been up for several months now, the Kimbell Art Museum is in the midst of...
Jimmy Buffet: A Howlin’ Good Time
STEVE STEWARDI won’t go as far as to say that last night’s Jimmy Buffet concert at Coyote Drive-In was the best concert of the year. (So far, that distinction goes to the Pinkish Black/Sub Oslo show at Lola’s Saloon last Saturday.) Bu...
Truly Public Art
Drop by Art Studios on Race Street to chat with an artist or two and maybe even go home with a painting.EDWARD BROWN
With Art Studios on Race Street (formerly The Work Room), owner Flora Brewer is re-envisioning the way painters and sculptors work. Instead of holing up in separate rooms by themselves, artists share a public space, allowing th...
Jubilee’s Black Boy Fly: Powerful Drama
NICOLE CRITESToday (Sunday) at 3 p.m. is your last chance to catch Jubilee Theatre’s production of Black Boy Fly, young Jordan E. Cooper’s powerful 40-minute drama about racism, anchored by the George Zimmerman trial. The setting is the...
Fort Worth: Too “Hip” for USA Today?
ANTHONY MARIANIUSA Today unleashed the breaking news that Fort Worth is “evolving from cow town to hipster city.” Catch your breath, I know. In a flyby article yesterday, writer Rick Jervis doesn’t clearly define “hipster” –– a ...