Reviews
OUR TAKES ON THEATER, DANCE, MUSIC AND OPERA

It will be difficult to hear a performance of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony after Thursday night. The Dallas Symphony,... read more

I have been a hardcore Beatles fan since college when I first danced to "She Loves You,"  "Hard Day's Night" and "Day Tripper" and sang "Yesterday"... read more

Religion and sexuality. It's like a lit match near a powder keg. The subject is potentially volatile. Even writing about it is like tiptoeing through... read more

Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods is an intimidating beast of a musical. It demands much of actor and playgoer, but it yields... read more

The saxophone is a pervasive instrument in the modern musical ethos. While designed originally by Adolph Sax as an addition to the military band (where... read more

The Orpheus Chamber Singers presented another impeccably sung program of excellent music on Saturday evening at the Spring Valley United... read more

One-person stage performances based on the lives of famous people tend to fall into two categories: the hopeless—fawning, reverential hero worship;... read more

At its core, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) is a buddy/coming of age story. Boy meets friend, then falls in... read more

It was a Carl Coomer event. A busy man, he did double duty Friday night, first as a mortal choreographer and later as a god in Apollo, in the... read more

The first performer in the concert was dead. It was odd, to say the least, to see Michael Rabin's name on the program at the Soundings... read more

It was a packed house for Carol Burnett, a sea of silver heads, some dating back to being fans from The Garry Moore Show. Busses... read more

The storytelling movement of the late 20th century is experiencing a revival in Dallas, and audiences seem to be having a ball.

Producer Nicole Stewart... read more

One of the gentle joys of Fort Worth is that it's the home turf of Betty Buckley. The Tony-winning singer and actress concertizes... read more

A huge white rectangular box, a cross between a coffin and a '50s-era freezer, sits across from the sofa and coffee table in the country home of Jack... read more

Regardless of reality, there are many born-and-raised Texans who ironically turn their noses up at the slightest notion of New York City. Just see the... read more

You can't understand what someone else is going through until you've walked a mile in their shoes, so the saying goes. And while it would be... read more

Dallas Chamber Music has presented a truly excellent season and the Takács Quartet, which took the stage... read more

What precisely does an Etiquette Consultant do? Given how splendidly every character misbehaves in the National Theatre of London's production of... read more

It is a difficult to write about a young artist at the beginning of his or her career. The annals of music history are littered with the now-forgotten... read more

Unless one is searching for it, finding a concert that primarily features 20th Century American music is a bit difficult — especially... read more