Category: theater

• A Year in Review: Best of Dallas Theater

  Jan 10

  I watched 18 plays in 2022. I had tickets for a 19th but had to miss it because I was sick. Except for 2 performances on Vimeo, all of the… more ›

• Best of Art 2021

  May 8

  Even though we balked at spending yet more time online, we ended up taking part in at least 43 art events, both in-person and virtually, in 2021. Here are the… more ›

• Review: The Hairy Ape | The Classics Theatre Project | The Core Theatre

  Oct 20

  Drew Maggs (foreground) as Yank in The Classics Theatre Project’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. Lloyd Harvey and Louis Shopen in background. Photo by Kris Ikjeri. Richardson, Texas… more ›

• A Year in Art

  Feb 5

  For the past few years I’ve tracked all the art events that my partner and I attend together. We are avid supporters of the arts. All of them. In 2020,… more ›

• The Top 10 North Texas Play Productions of 2019

  Jan 2

  I attended 46 theater productions this past year, all of them in North Texas. Later this week TheaterJones will publish my year’s highlights list, in which you’ll be able to… more ›

• A Year in the Arts

  Dec 27

  We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›

• FIT 2019

  Aug 1

  The 21st annual Festival of Independent Theatres wraps up this weekend at Dallas’ Bath House Cultural Center on the shore of White Rock Lake. It’s maybe only the third or… more ›

• Peking Man

  Jul 2

  The best writing sends you down random rabbit holes toward other great writing. Such was the case with a 1940 play by Cao Yu entitled Peking Man, which I first… more ›

• Lucky’s Speech

  Mar 27

  It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that time, and really since the beginning, I was fascinated with… more ›

• Books Read in 2017

  Jan 2

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