The gala prelude to the new Lexus Broadway Series's first season in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts' new Winpear Opera House, Billy Crystal's one-man autobiography 700 Sundays, goes on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on...
Tickets for the new Lexus Broadway Series' special inaugural event, the national tour of Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, went on sale yesterday. Only Lexus Broadway subscribers and special credit card customers could buy -- but that didn't keep the demand...
For eight blissful minutes Wednesday, a pony-tailed Alfredo Rodriguez sat at a grand piano in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre and ignored the drill humming above him. It was the first performance in the Wyly, albeit an impromptu, informal...
The DCPA has released some more details about its opening week festivities, Oct. 12-18. In addition to performances by Denyce Graves and Thomas Hampson, a world premiere dance piece by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, and various appearances by the architects, there...
The Lexus Broadway Series, the tour presenter for the new Winspear Opera House about to open at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts in October, is scooping its own first show. The Lincoln Center South Pacific is the first...
Last weekend found me in Minnesota, where I flew to attend the funeral of a friend. I failed to get a return flight on Sunday, which allowed me to check out the Tony "Kushner Celebration" at the Guthrie Theater, a...
Condoleezza Rice, Hilary Swank, David Frost and Frank Langella are among the marquee names featured in the 2009-2010 Brinker International Forum, officials for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday. Offering a program that it says "explores the...
The Dallas Opera has another partner, the State Opera of South Australia, in commissioning and performing the forthcoming Jake Heggie opera Moby-Dick. Based on the famous Herman Melville novel, the opera will be premiered at the new Dallas Center for...
A former dancer with Texas Ballet Theater, Margo McCann has been named managing director of the company, the chairwoman of its board of directors announced Thursday. The board's executive committee voted unanimously to select McCann, whom it credited for helping...
Media types had a chance to meet new Dallas Center for the Performing Art pres/CEO Mark Nerenhausen Monday. Nerenhausen took over last week, after 11 years running the Brouward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nerenhausen is...
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Winspear Opera House and Wyly Theatre are looking promising, with October openings planned for both. But this was a bad week elsewhere for the two buildings' architects: Foster + Partners for the opera...
Veletta Forsythe Lill, who served for eight years on the Dallas City Council, has been chosen as the first executive director of the Dallas Arts District, city officials announced Wednesday. Lill will work within the framework of the DOWNTOWNDallas organization...
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