Did we mention that these tickets are GONE? That's right. All 3,000 tickets or so were scooped up in about 40 minutes or so. Of course, area theaters generally offer various kinds of discounts, so if there's a show you really wish to see, check out the possible low prices. And you can always wait [...]

Elizabeth Lunday is the author of The Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors, which includes intriguing, seamy and just plain curious trivia about the 35 artists whose lives she recounts. Some of the biographical facts are not so secret (Caravaggio murdered a man). Others, on [...]

Daniel Pearl Judea Pearl
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Musicians all over Denton will be dedicating concerts in October to the memory of the slain journalist [...]

Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
The Dallas Summer Musicals has announced a full slate for its 69th season: fifteen, count 'em 15, touring shows. Everything from old warhorses given some new life (The Pajama Game, A Chorus Line) to the now-standard movie adaptations (Legally Blonde, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) [...]

The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs recently announced the city's first Free Night of Theater, to be held from Oct. 16 through Nov. 10. If you'd like to attend one of the free nights, you must reserve tickets through the Free Night of Theater Web site, www.freenightoftheater.net, beginning at noon on Wednesday, Oct. [...]

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Sentimental Journey: The Art of Jacob Miller runs at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth through Jan. 11.
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Ian Leson as the lead officer, Michael Federico as the second cop and Lee Trull as Katurian in Kitchen Dog's The Pillowman

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It’s hard for a stage drama to be terrifying. Terrifying isn’t just a matter of – gotcha! [...]

The following review was written by Dallas music critic Olin Chism. Scroll down for links to what others are saying.
It’s always risky to predict the fate of a new composition, but August 4, 1964 by Steven Stucky and Gene Scheer packs enough power that an extended series of performances seems a safe bet. The oratorio [...]

Among the performers at this weekend’s Jazz by the Boulevard festival in Fort Worth will be its new creative director, drummer Adonis Rose. The new job is one of several he’s acquired in North Texas since evacuating here from Hurricane Katrina: founder and leader of the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra, artist-in-residence at UT Arlington – [...]

Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas' new Art Lab, 1608 Main Street

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On Main Street in downtown Dallas, there’s a two-story brick building tucked away next to Neiman-Marcus. Inside, the wood stain on the counter is still wet, and workers are still up on ladders aiming [...]