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Houston native Tommy Tune earned his Equity Card in the chorus of West Side Story at Dallas Summer Musicals, and then took off to New York. He... read more

It's hard to believe that two-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole, a bona fide Broadway star, has not performed in North Texas... read more

In the opening lines of Farewell: A Memoir of Texas Childhood, Horton Foote writes that he left his home in Wharton, Texas, when he was 16, but... read more

When you find a good gig, you stick with it. That’s what Dixie Longate has done with her Tupperware parties, in which she tells her guests about... read more

Mario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor who is classically trained but specializes in the pop-opera repertoire, inhabited by the likes of Andrea Bocelli and... read more

Peter Boyer is a composer with a sense of history. He has written more than two dozen symphonic pieces, three of them based on events in the past. There... read more

Günther Herbig is a distinguished-looking and spry 80-year-old who is also one of a handful of the truly great living conductors. He will appear with... read more

There are many paths to the podium. In days of yore, it was to come up through the ranks of the opera house, from répétiteur to... read more

Dallas Children’s Theater concluded its Teen Scene Festival on Saturday with the world premiere of Kevin Nash’s documentary, Dialogue... read more

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but how about this: You’re at your everyday performance gig one day, just doing your thing,... read more

I think I was 20 when I met Bonnie Leslie. I was working at Undermain Theatre, where she was justifiably revered. I think Bruce Dubose introduced me to... read more

How many times have you heard someone brag that someone singing in the church choir should be performing with the opera company? Well, if that person attended... read more

Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh have been in the business of Broadway for more than four decades, and are each bona... read more

Mark O’Connor is a musician with a wide bandwidth. He is a composer, arranger, and virtuoso violinist who crosses many musical genres,... read more

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, one of the world’s greatest pianists who regularly appears with the world’s greatest orchestras, will... read more

Update on Feb. 9: Because of inclement weather, the production of Measure for Measure has been pushed back to open... read more

Michael Kahn, artistic director of Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, is back in Dallas to direct some opera. The opera in question... read more

It would be easy to say that musical theater fans have made Glee a hit TV show, but then again, all the high school football fanatics out there—and... read more

Lauren Kennedy is in that comfy place where she gets steady acting work in New York, records albums and is known by name to musical theater geeks. But... read more

So, what have you been doing this week, as the Super Bowl is finally in town (but has had competition for headlines from the ice storm)?

I’ve... read more