Reviews
OUR TAKES ON THEATER, DANCE, MUSIC AND OPERA

This review of Giant, the new musical that opened on Friday evening at the Dallas Theater Center, will concentrate... read more

There's an opportunity waiting for you, mythically in Texas and specifically in Dallas at the Wyly Theatre. It's Giant... read more

The only major complaint that arises after seeing Lyric Stage's concert staging of the musical Kismet is... read more

How'd you like to see a play about a greedy, obsessive/compulsive rodent?

Don't be too quick to decline. The Dallas Children's... read more

Dancers never stop. A mere six weeks after its performance of "The NOTcracker" at the Dallas Museum of Art, the artists of Barefoot Brigade are at it again.... read more

Here's a question: What's more corny than the television show Gilligan's Island? If you guessed Gilligan's... read more

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Principal Clarinetist, Gregory Raden, has performed superb and subtle orchestral solos as well as... read more

One of the lesser-known facts about the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is that they commission a substantial American composer to write a... read more

In the recorded message prior to performances of Death By Chocolate at Garland Civic Theatre, artistic director... read more

It's happened a million times. Someone drops a smart phone or laptop on hard concrete, and though it still works something just isn't the same.

Now,... read more

When the Metropolitan Opera announced that they were going to produce a Baroque pasticcio (or pastiche), everyone was mystified.... read more

Usually, Chamber Music International presents concerts in pairs. On Saturday, the third concert in their 2011-'12 season was just... read more

Accompanying your husband to hear Dave Barry talk is an act of love comparable to a guy attending a chick flick. The Arts & Letters Live... read more

The title My Tidy List of Terrors may mislead some to expect a play full of whimsical worry à la Shel Silverstein.... read more

To prove that there is more to American Ballet Theatre than Swan Lake and Le Corsaire, the company leapt into more challenging... read more

The Blue Candlelight Music Series is always a different experience. Held in the Baron House, one of Dallas' grandest mansions, there... read more

The Thursday performance by the Dallas Symphony was completely unexpected. Shocking, really. 

Much was anticipated in the outing... read more

Live theater is an interesting animal. Not only could you get two very different shows of the same piece from different companies, directors and/or actors,... read more

There are few greater feelings than being in on a good joke. And in the visage of Maz Jobrani, performing at the Addison Improv... read more

Nothing melancholy about Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play. It's mostly exuberant. Billed as a contemporary farce, this... read more