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Taking Opera's Temperature
The cover story of the August issue of Opera News is the one about “Opera’s Next Wave” — the one that features FWOpera’s Darren Woods riding that wave — and NPR uses that as a springboard for a...
View ArticleUncle Barky Makes The New York Times
UPDATE: Folks from The Human Rights Initiative of North Texas were among those in the audience at a special preview screening and panel discussion of Half the Sky at KERA yesterday. Ed Bark, former...
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Kimbell's Bernini Show, To Open in 2013, Gets Reviewed in NYC
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, a survey of 39 works by the 17th-century Baroque master, opens Feb. 3 in Fort Worth. But its first stop is at the Met in New York City, where it opened Wednesday. The show...
View Article‘Superman’ Cast for NYC
The New York Times reports that Broadway star Brian Watts has been cast in the lead role in the Lee Adams-Charles Strouse musical, It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman for a seven-performance...
View ArticleMajor Dallas Art Collector Howard Rachofsky Used to Buy in New York Galleries …
… and now he does his art-collecting at fairs in Basel, London and New York. Who cares? The leading New York galleries do. In a front-page story in the New York Times, reporter Graham Bowley detects a...
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‘Fly By Night’ Doesn’t Fly By NYTimes Critic
Damon Daunno (front) and music director Zak Sandler (back) in Fly By Night at the DTC. Photo credit: Karen Almond. Fly By Night, the quirky, charming musical the Dallas Theater Center staged last year,...
View ArticleFormer SMU Arts Dean Going For Video College Applications
And yes, there’s an app for that. Jose Bowen, who announced his departure as dean of SMU’s Meadows College of the Arts only back in March, has already gotten some national attention (from NPR and the...
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Amon Carter’s ‘Navigating The West’ Continues To Get Some Love
The exhibition, Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, debuted and ran at the Amon Carter late last year before moving on to St. Louis and is now at the Met in New York. The show of...
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Dallas’ Only Pulitzer Winner (In The Arts) Is Back On Broadway
James Earl Jone and Cicely Tyson in ‘The Gin Game’ on Broadway. Photo: Joan Marcus D. L. Coburn won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for the Broadway premiere of his play, ‘The Gin Game.’ More than 35 years...
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The NYTimes Catches Up With Former DSO Conductor Andrew Litton —
— who is in his first season as the music director of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. The paper gave him a favorable review for conducting ‘The Nutcracker’ in November at Lincoln Center (“all the...
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NYTimes Names DSO’s Jaap Van Zweden A Top Contender To Lead NYPhilharmonic
In an article about London’s Philharmonia Orchestra conductor and Finnish composer Esa Pekka-Salonen declining to be the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, The New York Times names...
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New York Catching Up With North Texas
Choreographer Camille Brown (left) with ‘Stagger Lee’ director Patricia McGregor. Photo: Jerome Weeks The Denton-born group Snarky Puppy won a Grammy two years ago for best R&B performance, and...
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DMA's Jean-Paul Gaultier Show A Top 10
After all the hoop-de-dooh of Fashion Week in New York, the NYTimes caught up with Jean-Paul Gaultier yesterday for something of an update and retrospective (“The Prime of an Enfant Terrible”). Turns...
View ArticleThe Thursday Roundup!
FORT WORTH FILMOLOGY, PT. 1. Tonight, AMC Sundance Square will screen the premiere of a documentary about the controversial 2009 Fort Worth police bust of a gay bar. Robert Camina has spent the past...
View ArticleThe Friday Roundup – at Long Last!
OLD MURAL FOUND DOWNTOWN. It’s more than 40 feet wide and it’s by New York artist Jack Lubin, so it’s kinda hard to miss — except that it was hidden for years by an entire wall. In what will...
View ArticleStarting the Week Off Right with the Monday Roundup
BILLY LYNN GETS A BIG BOOST. Dallas author Ben Fountain’s debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, scored a touchdown review from Janet Maslin in the New York Times. The story of a young Iraq-War...
View ArticleRemember that New 'Advanced Auto-tune' We Told You About?
For TEDxSMU last year, SMU electrical engineering professor Scott Douglas talked about how the next step in digital vocal processing was coming soon: instant vocal perfection, vocal perfection while...
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Get a Preview of Gail Collins' New Book on Texas …
In addition to her regular — and amusing — New York Times political columns, Collins has written a history of recent feminism (When Everything Changed) and a history of political gossip (Scorpion...
View ArticleThursday Morning Roundup
THE BEST OF 817: On Sunday, the Fort Wort Weekly Music Awards Festival will be held at eight venues in the West 7th Street corridor. A whopping 48 bands will take the various stages – some you’ve heard...
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FWOpera's Darren Woods to Wed Makeup Designer Steven Bryant
Just checking out the New York Times‘ Sunday wedding announcements, when I’m stopped by a face and a name I recognize: Darren Woods. The announcement states that FWOpera general director Woods will be...
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