Ed Cabaniss, the Longhorn Ballroom’s new owner, has restored it, re-opened it and now has gotten it historic designation.
The Longhorn Ballroom is now a National Historic site
February 8, 2024 by Jerome Weeks
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Don’t ask, don’t tell, but laughing’s OK. A Dallas comedy takes on being gay in the Black church
January 25, 2024 by Jerome Weeks
Playwright Jonathan Norton’s new play, “I Am Deliver’T,” at the Dallas Theater Center was inspired in part by a viral video.
Dallas playwright’s new comedy explores gentrification in Elm Thicket, her childhood home
January 11, 2024 by Jerome Weeks
A new comedy about two childhood sweethearts reuniting after decades apart becomes a vehicle for examining the troubled racial and economic history of a single Dallas neighborhood: Elm Thicket. This week, Soul Rep Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Elm Thicket, written by the company’s director, Anyika McMillan-Herod. It’s part of the AT&T Performing… Read more »
Lady Bird Johnson’s environmentalism, and fight against billboards, inspires a new Dallas choral work
December 1, 2023 by Jerome Weeks
The Verdigris Ensemble and the Dallas Contemporary are collaborating with an exhibition and a multi-media choral work – inspired by the Highway Beautification Act of 1964
A global mix of medicine and music: World Doctors Orchestra to make its debut in North Texas
October 18, 2023 by Jerome Weeks
The World Doctors Orchestra has played in more than 20 countries since 2008 — and this week, it’s making its North Texas debut with a world premiere. It took local members of the orchestra four years to bring the WDO here. Sing-Yi Feng is a pediatrics professor at UT Southwestern as well as a medical toxicologist at North… Read more »
Two-part “From the Top” tracks the young pianists at this summer’s Cliburn Junior
October 12, 2023 by Jerome Weeks
Top-notch teenage musicians from around the world competed in this summer’s Cliburn Junior. You can hear them play – and talk about what it all meant to them.
