At the moment, because performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and rehearsals for A Christmas Carol are overlapping, the Dallas Theater Center is currently employing 39 actors.
And all of them seem to be local.

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: A compromise spending bill approved by Congressional negotiators on Tuesday sets the 2010 fiscal-year budgets for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts at $167.5-million each, a $25-million total increase over the appropriations for the two endowments in 2009. The National Endowment for [...]

POWER IN NUMBERS: If you play in a band, and no one ever hears you, do you really have a band? That’s a question that Fort Worth musician Matt Skates has certainly pondered. He’s played with more than a dozen current and former bands, so he knows that all the practice in the world is [...]

Do you have health insurance? Do you want it?
Many folks in our creative community-  actors to gallery owners, fashion designers, authors, filmmakers, painters – are uninsured or underinsured .  But now a group is calling for artists to stand together to change that.   Of course, they’re doing it in a fun and funky way, [...]

So Saturday night, the AT&T PAC threw its cumulative wingding-gala, the final fundraising frolic before Sunday’s open house, when the whole Arts District welcomed the two freshman facilities by getting all free and easy with a day’s worth of open-admission museums and concerts. Think of it as kind of a cultural Rush Week.
So anyway, Saturday [...]

— on the roof of the Winspear Opera House.
The blue-and-white-striped globe won’t mar the pristine, ruby-red glass face of the Winspear or give it a red, white and blue look. And people won’t be able to see it while driving or walking past. But it will be visible to air travelers overhead and to [...]

Before Bruce Willis came on as emcee to introduce the evening’s stage attractions for the opening gala Wednesday night at the Wyly Theatre, Jose Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, announced the first two recipients of the Meadows Prize — both of them smart and very intriguing choices. You may recall that [...]

Cathy Hernandez is President of Artsnet and
Adjunct Professor of Arts Management at TCU
What concerns me most about today’s arts economy is the lack of support for the individual artist. When thinking of the struggle artists have, I find it amazing that in the North Texas area there are so few opportunities for them to receive [...]

Several hundred people — and rows of dignitaries — courageously defied some low-hanging overcast to witness the official, secular dedication of the $354 million AT&T Performing Arts Center this morning.  The religious dedication was Sunday, and it featured prayers by a rabbi, an imam, a Catholic bishop and a Methodist pastor. (Insert joke here.) [...]

COURTING COVERAGE: Question: How do you know you have a Really Big Event coming to your town? Answer: When the local media starts writing about the national coverage of said event. That story has finally appeared in The Dallas Morning News, and give reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs credit for not just stringing together a collection of [...]