Media Reviews
PERFORMING ARTS-RELATED FILM, TV, HOME MEDIA AND BOOKS

As a three-dimensional form, dance is best seen live. Film, no matter how clever, is a poor substitute for the stage. But Wim Wenders' 3D documentary,... read more

Like many artists, Gustav Mahler was concerned with life, love and death. A new film, Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler's... read more

Second albums are tough, especially if the first album was well-received. Thankfully, after several listens, the sophomore slump phenomenon doesn't... read more

Only hardcore ballet buffs and dance historians know the name René Blum, but Judith Chazin-Bennahum has set out to right this wrong. The story of... read more

The Live from the Met HD broadcast of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor was eagerly awaited. All read more

How many times have you heard that ballet is the foundation of all dance? Yes, modern, jazz, lyrical and contemporary dance are all rooted in ballet, but... read more

John Adams’ minimalist opera, Nixon in China, started out as a production for the Houston Grand Opera (co-commissioned... read more

Have you ever wondered what your favorite singers might have in an iPod playlist?

Fans of Fort Worth native and Tony-winner Betty Buckley know that... read more

One hundred years ago, The Met commissioned Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West.  The composer was in New York... read more

Quirky comedy was the original calling card for playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who proved himself adept at looking at life through an askew lens in the... read more

Shakespeare’s The Tempest exists in that rarified air of delighting audiences, directors, actors and scholars alike. There... read more

You would never think that blood oozing out of a fingertip could be so unsettling, but it is in the psychosexual thriller Black Swan,... read more

One of things actors do when they are working on a show together is share war stories. It would be a safe bet that anyone who has ever worked on a production... read more

Bach didn’t much care for the piano when he first saw an early prototype. He thought that the treble notes were too soft. Even Mozart didn’t... read more

“Dark phrases of womanhood, having never been a girl…” 

Those words open one of the most inspirational and unique plays ever... read more

Most everyone who is even tangentially around classical music knows the basics of the life of Glenn Gould: Brilliant pianist, Canadian, recluse, Bach specialist,... read more

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov is a problem child in the operatic world. It is long (even for opera), performed in Russian,... read more

Thought that high school algebra class was pointless? Think again.

As you might have learned in Donald in Mathmagic Land, math is an integral... read more

When Jorge Martín’s opera, Before Night Falls, was presented by the Fort Worth Opera, there was a lot of buzz about... read more

On Saturday afternoon, the movie multiplex is usually filled with noisy kids running all over the place. How odd, then, to see a gaggle of middle-aged... read more