Arts
Mr. Zolidis’ Opus
The Brothers Grimm get the musical treatment by a Pulitzer-nominated playwright and former Haltom High teacher.ROB PATTERSON
The way The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon: The Musical! found its groove is something of a fairy tale. Originally written in 2007 by playwright Don Zolidis as a non-musical stage play for his Haltom High School and North Oak Mi...
mood indigo
Harlem Renaissance master Archibald Motley receives his due at the Carter.JIMMY FOWLER
After a glance at several of the paintings in the national exhibit Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, currently on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, fans of 1970s American sitcoms may wonder: Did Motley, a Harl...
Memorials for Leonard Belota, Justin Elliot
ANTHONY MARIANIThe North Texas scene recently lost two talented musicians. On Sunday, July 27, Leonard Belota, a jazz trumpeter who toured with the Stax Records band, according to local jazz luminary Johnny Case, died at home under hospice ca...
Ansel Adams in the Zone
Arlington Museum of Art’s retrospective is breathtaking — and almost over.LAURIE JAMES
This week is your last chance to catch Ansel Adams Masterworks, a series of original, spellbinding photographs curated by the legendary photographer during the twilight of his career. Along with some of his most recognizable pi...
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...