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Just to open its new season in Dallas at the Majestic Theater on Sept. 12, the Texas Ballet Theater needs to raise $500,000 in cash to pay expenses upfront. Otherwise, there will be no show and no new season, says Margo McCann, the ballet’s interim managing director.

McCANN: [...]

The Winspear Opera House will be a downtown beacon — covered in red glass. OK, so no one will miss it. But why red? And how did they make it so rich and shiny?

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Fifty years ago, Casa Mañana introduced Fort Worth to theater-in-the-round. But the history of Tarrant County's largest performing arts group predates that. Watch Casa's President and Executive Producer Denton Yockey and Krys Boyd discuss theater back then, and what to expect this season [...]

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At the Dallas Museum of Art, there’s an nkisi nkondi [pronounced en-keesee enkondee]. It’s a wooden statue from the Congo that bristles with iron nails hammered into it. It stands in the Center for Creative Connections, the museum’s new learning center, and there’s a touch-screen computer nearby. [...]

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Degas, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet — Ninety two Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces from The Chicago Art Institute have found a temporary home at the Kimbell Art Museum. It's the first time the Chicago museum has allowed so many masterworks to take a road trip. [...]

Group therapy: The cast of My Favorite Animal (l to r): David Lugo, Sylvia Luedtke, Trista Wyly, Shane Strawbridge and Josh Hepola. Photo by George Wada.

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Read the Dallas Morning News review of My Favorite Animal.
My Favorite Animal runs through this weekend.
REHEARSAL: (Shane Strawbridge) "What's the deal with these pictures?
(Josh [...]

What defines a city like Dallas? Scholar Harvey Graff scrutinizes the town known throughout the world for its big business, big thinking, and even bigger self image in his new book "The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City." Click above to listen to Graff's conversation with Think host Krys Boyd. The [...]

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Why would someone string a high-wire between the World Trade Center Towers, risking arrest and certain death to walk between them over 1,300 feet in the air? Director James Marsh's film Man On Wire profiles the man who actually did it in 1974. Click above to listen to Marsh [...]

Dallas skyline, 1913

Hear Krys Boyd interview Harvey Graff for Think on KERA-FM.
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Harvey Graff’s new book, The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, is a thorough and devastating examination of how Dallas developed its larger-than-life image, its aggressive business culture, its ambitions, its conformity and fearfulness – [...]

Photo credit: Whitney Lawson
George Steel, the executive director of Columbia University's Miller Theater, will become the new general director of the Dallas Opera, effective Oct.1 — meaning he will help usher the company into the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House next year.
The 41-year-old Steel does not come from the typical ranks of the [...]