By Adrian Cook Prism Movement Theatre’s latest work, Lucha Teotl, presented as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator...

By Adrian Cook I came of age in the early 1990s, the heyday of grunge music, post-punk emo, and melancholia. I latched on to bands like...

By Cristee Cook The Classics Theatre Project returns to live theatre with a charming adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About...

By Cristee Cook “The great tragedy of life is that so many people have nothing to do but yearn for happiness without ever being able to...

By Cristee Cook Soul Rep Theatre Company's final production of their 25th Anniversary season, SOUL-O-SHORTS is a filmed theatrical...

By Cristee Cook My calendar app dings, reminding me to open my Zoom meeting and talk to Martheya Nygaard and Reyna Mondragon about their...

By Adrian Cook This week, Dallas Art Beat had the opportunity to watch the latest effort from the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group, Things...

By Cristee Cook Last week I masked up and went into The Cube: An Interactive Experience for the Socially Distanced Era at the Latino...

By Cristee Cook Do No Harm, a new play from Anyika McMillan-Herod, takes audiences back to 1840’s Alabama. The world premiere is...

By Cristee Cook On Sunday, December 6th I had the pleasure of attending the multi-media installation at Dallas’ Cara Mia Theatre:...

By Cristee Cook The regional premiere of My Red Hand, My Black Hand by Dael Orlandersmith opens the revived Café Negro Series, a...

By Cristee Cook Theatre Three’s virtual production, It Came From Theatre Three celebrates Halloween with four short plays, each...

By Adrian Cook The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a palpable blow to live performance. This is obvious. It is also uncertain. We don’t know...

By Adrian Cook As a performance scholar and a performing artist, I have been contemplative over the past four months, imagining and...

by Christopher Soden Haskell Harelik is a Jewish refugee from Russia who abandons his original plan to come to New York and gets off the...

by Cristee Cook THE SAVAGE SECONDS, a theatrical film from Danielle Georgiou Dance Group (DGDG), centers on the story of BABY. When her...

by Christopher Soden By way of introduction (and transparency) I discovered Pauline Kael’s body of critique while shelving books at my...

In early March, before the world halted, I was stopped in my tracks by a different but equally powerful influence. At Ro2, the small...

by Christopher Soden The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is the story of 12-year-old Esperanza Cordero, a daughter in a large...

by Cristee Cook In Mlima’s Tale by Lynn Nottage, an elder and revered African elephant (Mlima) is poached, and his beautiful tusks...