Kevin Moriarty's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the Dallas Theater Center's opening show at the new Wyly Theatre, keeps bubbling in my head. It's youth-intoxicated approach has even got me listening to current pop music. (Anyone over 40 but me humming...
Its versatility is the most vaunted aspect of the new Wyly Theatre in the just-opening AT&T Performing Arts Center. This opening week has been a time to prove it. In just a few days, the venue is being shown in...
On deadline Sunday, the folks at the AT&T Performing Arts Center estimated that perhaps 25,000 people had attended "Spotlight Sunday," a daylong festival of free performances and tours inaugurating the $354 million facility. Now they're saying it was more...
One problem at the new Winspear Opera House is inherent in the shape of the room -- wider from side to side, but shallower, than, say, the more typically shaped Bass Hall. That makes the room feel remarkably intimate, especially...
I agree with everything my colleague Scott Cantrell said in his peek at the first gala at the Winspear Opera House last night. I have never heard the orchestral playing coming from the pit with such clarity and power in...
This critic is starting to feel a little paranoid! At both AT&TPAC gala performances so far, the tickets (hand-delivered to the office in resplendent ribbons and calligraphy) have been for seats also assigned to somebody else. At the Wyly on...
My colleague Scott Cantrell had a early deadline and had to miss some of Scene 2, the second of three gala performances opening the new ATTPAC, last night. And anyhow, we were strictly forbidden from "reviewing" the performances, for no...
It struck me this morning, touring the stunning new AT&T Performing Arts Center, that, given the local population's fluid nature, I was probably one of the few people in the room -- the preview audience included media members, staff members...
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