Once upon a time… in a place that feels an awful lot like the Big Easy, was a fairytale spun by the gods to show us a little more about love, trust, and the imperfect world in which we live. This prescient fairytale, Hadestown, is currently on its National Tour and playing in Dallas’ Winspear […]
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It is with some sadness that I’m writing a review of a fabulous show that you’ll likely have to wait to see. We were fortunate to attend the opening of Come from Away, the Broadway smash hit, as it traveled to the Music Hall at Fair Park as part of the Dallas Summer Musicals. As […]
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Whn Janet Dacal as Dina sings the lyrics, “Honey in my ear, Spice in my mouth,” during The Band’s Visit, she might as well have been singing for all of us about the delicious and strange new sensations that seeing the smash Broadway musical brought to Dallas theatre-goers. The Broadway cast of the show won […]
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Are they performance artists? Are they comedians? Are they musicians? I’m not sure the answer really matters, as a show with the Blue Man Group is always entertaining. This current tour, now at Dallas’ Winspear Opera House, combines technology, music and audience participation in such a way that it feels like the show could be […]
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Director Greta Gerwig has taken a literary classic, rewrapped it in a contemporary package and presented it as a beautiful gift perfect for unwrapping on Christmas Day, when the film officially opens. In Little Women, which opens on Christmas Day nationwide, Gerwig uses a different narrative than the linear telling of the original classic, and […]
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Over a third of all teens and adolescent admit to being bullied online, according to a national mental health foundation. That is part of what made Dear Evan Hansen, now touring at the Music Hall at Fair Park as a part of the Dallas Summer Musicals, such a timely show when it originated in December […]
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In the promotional spot for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, reporter Lloyd Vogel’s wife, Andrea (This is Us’ Susan Kelechi Watson) says, “Lloyd, please don’t ruin my childhood.” I approached this new release with the same hesitance. I grew up among the first generation of children who enjoyed Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, a PBS production […]
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For six seasons, you made Sunday night girls’ night… or date night… or just your night. Every episode of the famed series Downton Abbey felt like an escape to another place and time, and whether you wanted to be Lady Mary as she flirted her way across the aristocracy or followed the trials and tribulations […]
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Unbelievable sights Indescribable feeling Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling Through an endless diamond sky A whole new world (Don’t you dare close your eyes) A hundred thousand things to see (Hold your breath, it gets better) I knew these words are intended to describe the falling in love moments for Aladdin and Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin, […]
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Every little girl dreams of being a princess in some form or another. Watching the Dallas Summer Musical’s production of Anastasia at The Music Hall at Fair Park is a blissful escape to that time when each of us danced about in a tiara or dreamt of finding our own Prince Charming. For years, shows […]
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