Karen Parrish, Max Hartman, Jenny Ledel in The Arsonists. When Kitchen Dog Theater mounts a new play, you put on your theater loafers and show up. This weekend, the well-oiled comedy machine mounts a new translation of Swiss playwright Max Frisc...
It's a shame because it wasn't that long ago when VHS tapes were still around and even the most horrid productions gave us hours of awkward, hilarious entertainment. Thankfully, the folks behind The Found Footage Festival are out there collecting the...
Bartok's Bluebeard and his fatefully curious wife. In a month marked by pioneering modernism, concert standards take a backseat to rarely performed masterpieces by the likes of Charles Ives, Gyorgy Ligeti and Bela Bartok (yes, more Bartok, agai...
Christopher Nolan's space epic Interstellar is a big, ambitious picture but it didn't connect with our critics. We discuss the film at the top of this week's podcast before moving onto a few other notable films on screens large and small thi...
#AlexfromTarget will appear on the Ellen Show at 3 p.m. Wednesday, and host Ellen DeGeneres gets to the bottom of the entire viral thing. That's an exaggeration because really the only thing we learn from the segment is that he does in fact work at...
Left Hand First In daily life, pretty is quite the compliment. Sure, it may rank lower than beautiful or stunning. But every good flatterer knows the power of telling a woman she's pretty. In art, pretty is perjorative. You want to insult a serious p...
Randy Guthmiller started a zine to make friends. When he moved back to Dallas after college, he would attend gallery openings and leave without talking to anyone. He needed a conversation starter, an entry point to access the sometimes-insular art sc...
But that isn't really true, at least not in Dallas. Sure, there are special exhibitions and traveling pieces that require you to plunk down a little coin to view, but much of the city's art is accessible entirely for free, meaning that you have no ex...
This past weekend, the fall season of dance in Dallas started off with two very different shows from two very different companies. In the Arts District, Dallas Black Dance Theatre opened its 2014-15 season with The Director's Choice series; in Deep E...
Jane the Virgin is this fall's most charming new show. BY INKOO KANG There's more television today than at any other point in the medium's history, but there's a good chance you're stuck in a TiVo rut. That's because, with a handful of exception...
This is the old space; the new space is about twice as large. Last night, the popular, beloved even, storytelling series Oral Fixation presented another round-up of true life tales. It was the third or fourth time I attended -- this time to see m...
"I've got a great ambition to die from exhaustion rather than boredom" -- Thomas Carlyle What our Scottish philosopher friend is trying to say is that instead of being bored you need to be out there making the most of life instead of being that pers...
SMU's Meadows School of the Arts dance program is known for putting on really good shows. The college's dance program not only teaches its students form and choreography, it also brings in celebrated guest artists, whose work challenges both the stud...
Yeah, we don't get it either. Teenaged girls are a peculiar species. And Twitter is an even weirder place. Put those two together and you have today's No. 1 trending topic that is #alexfromtarget. Yes, a young girl tweeted a picture of a long-ha...
Many years ago something happened that made me question the nature of music, and ultimately all "art" for that matter. I was at a friend's house playing a record (Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music), when his mom complained about the noise. She asked, "w...
Denton, Color Us Impressed. Halloween comes once a year, and there's a lot to see. We dispatched photographers all over Dallas to capture some of the best. From Deep Ellum to Denton and Uptown to Slipknot, here are some of the best costumes from ...
Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Chad Houser loves his job. The former co-chef-owner at Parigi in Oak Lawn is living his dream, and giving the same opportunity to disadvantaged ...
Maybe you read about the sand show in the Trinity Groves warehouse and thought to yourself, I wonder what they're going to do with all that sand? Build a private beach? Donate it to the local sand volleyball league? At this point, all the theater com...
Deborah Voigt is fabulous. She's one of those once-in-a-lifetime performers on an imagined performing arts bucket list. Like Alan Cumming in Cabaret, or Joshua Bell on violin (who will be at the Winspear next week, coincidentally). And if you're goin...
This is a pic of Chris & Tina at Halloween a few years ago... they don't always look like this... Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Christopher Carlos and Tina Parker often s...