Reviews
OUR TAKES ON THEATER, DANCE, MUSIC AND OPERA

Maria de Buenos Aires: A Tango Operita is the final production of the season for Artes de la Rosa, presented... read more

The 2012 Fort Worth Opera Festival opened at Bass Performance Hall on Saturday with a soaring and seductive production of Giacomo Puccini's... read more

There was little doubt that we were in for a great concert on Saturday evening. Chamber Music International always has a distinguished... read more

Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, has always been a problem child. It contains some of the composer's best music, which... read more

It doesn't take a history lesson to recognize the emotions of rage and love bursting forth from American Idiot. But to fully... read more

The Hall Ensemble held a chamber concert in the beautiful home of Susan Motheral in Fort Forth on Tuesday. The guest star was Mark Houghton,... read more

Dallas Children's Theater stagings come with a delicious bonus. Not only is the production quality consistently high, but you get... read more

Voices of Change always intrigues. You never know exactly what to expect. Even if you know the program ahead of time, you probably haven't... read more

Harold Pinter's classic black comedy The Birthday Party is 50 years old and still hammering the funny bone and... read more

Matt Lyle's "silent films on stage" are tough to pull off. He asks his actors to excel at a style of physical comedy that's evocative of the... read more

At Bass Hall on Friday for the Fort Worth Symphony concert, we were able to hear what an emerging artist plays like in the beginning and... read more

The state-of-the-art Wyly Theatre was the ideal setting for Diavolo Dance Theater’s performance Friday night, presented by TITAS... read more

What to think when someone does something completely unexpected and out of context? 

Such an event happened at the Dallas Symphony... read more

Some in the audience were sorely disappointed before Emanuel Ax even began his recital on Tuesday at Bass Performance Hall as part of... read more

The Van Cliburn Foundation presented an unusual program on Saturday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Four winners of their Amateur... read more

There is much talk in the music world about the death of the art song recital. Big names can draw a crowd, as Nathan Gunn did recently for read more

Flamenco music originated in the Andalusian region of Spain, having its roots in the traditional music of Andalusia as well as the gypsy music of the Romani.... read more

Annie is getting a polished production by Casa Mañana Children's Theatre.

Technically,... read more

There is a point in The Silence of the Clams when John Denver's wistful, down-homey "Country Roads" is heard briefly as... read more

If one intimate weekend with Texas Ballet Theater is good, then two is definitely better. Rounding out their second set of Portraits... read more