You can't keep a trashy-campy stage adaptation down. Bob Hess and Doug Miller adapted the classic bad movie Valley of the Dolls for the Uptown Players in 2007. Now it's getting a staged reading in New York by the Actors Fund — with a cast that includes Martha Plimpton and Charles Busch.

Up and coming musicians commonly play in more than one band. But few are as prolific as Denton musician Ryan Williams. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports on the bass player who will perform five times at NX35:

Torey Harrah is one of three kids followed in the remarkably moving, Texas-made documentary Torey's Distraction. Each child has Apert Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. But how the film got made also makes it noteworthy. Jerome Weeks reports on 'filmanthropy.'

Addison's Out of the Loop Festival presents comic monologist Mike Daisey tonight in perhaps his best-known stage show: How Theater Failed America. It's Daisey's rebuke to the corporatized state of the stage. After the show, he'll be joined in a panel discussion by a group of area directors and actors — and KERA's Jerome Weeks.

How does the way you decorate your home influence the way people think about you? A photography exhibit at Richland College merges sociology and art to try and answer that question. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports:

In the Saturday Spotlight, we're going green.

Thursday night, The Crow Collection of Asian Art kicked off a new series, First Thursdays: The Silk Road Lounge. The series started off by featuring the music of Space City Gamelan, a musical ensemble based in Houston.
A gamelan is a musical ensemble of Indonesian origin and features instruments ranging from xylophones, drums, flutes, metallophones [...]

What's wrong with this picture? It's a photograph, a glowing, beautiful landscape — by Lou Reed, surprisingly enough. It's in an exhibition of his work called "Romanticism." And only the second town to show it is — Wichita Falls, Texas. Jerome Weeks speaks with the rock icon.

Dr. Sam W. Haynes, Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, discusses a trio of photography exhibits that commemorate the upcoming centennial of the Mexican Revolution.

Henderson Avenue in Dallas is once again a vibrant area after years of redevelopment. And later this month, a series of sculptures will line the street and add to the rejuvenation. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports on the contest that lead to those pieces of public art.