SMU professor Willard Spiegelman is usually busy talking about what makes him happy (as he did this spring on Think TV). So it’s a bit of a switch that he writes in today’s Wall Street Journal about what he’s currently unhappy with – namely, life in downtown Dallas.

Did you happen to notice the British contingent involved with all things AT&T PAC? Obviously, Spencer de Grey and Norman Foster, the architects of the Winspear Opera House, but also Richard Pilbrow of Theater Consultants. During all the visiting last week, I happened to extol the Kimbell’s current exhibition, Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons, as [...]

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Eight minutes fly by. When we make video packages for the Think TV show, we often leave great material out, simply for lack of time. That was especially true this past week.
Among her many duties, Therese Powell produces the Art&Seek segment of Think. [...]

DANCE, DANCE, DANCE: Wil McKnights’ Texas Dance Theatre opens its inaugural season on Friday with considerable buzz. And in an era when dance companies come and go, he says he’s in it for the long run. “One day, I’m going to have my own building,” McKnight tells dallasnews.com. “I’m not playing around.” Part of the [...]

Our tour of the inside of the Wyly Theatre for Think TV was broadcast and put up online Friday. It includes never-before-seen footage of the Wyly’s touted “flexible” seating and staging configuration — plus interviews with Kevin Moriarty, artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center, and Benton Delinger, project manager for Theatre Projects Consultants, the [...]