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Arts + Culture
Brendon Urie with Panic! at the Disco: The (new) gay interview
Laughing off the recent protest that took place during a Kansas City stop on the band’s Gospel Tour, Urie, who revealed in our interview late last year that he’s a “straight dabbler,” high fives me as I greet him. Backstage, hours before the trio relays a m…
Arts + Culture
Cocktail Friday: Cali Strawberry Daiquiri
Cocktail Friday: Cali Strawberry Daiquiri
Arts + Culture
Baugh to serve as Chorale interim director; Seelig to return for one concert
Turtle Creek Chorale announced today that Associate Conductor Sean Baugh will continue in that position and lead the chorale as it searches for a permanent artistic director.
Arts + Culture
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN’: GAYLE HALPERIN ON DALLAS’ DANCE SCENE
Dallas’ performing arts scene has been growing tremendously in the past recent years, and although that momentum has mainly been propelled by theater, dance is on its heels. “We have seen a surge, over the past four years, and it’s wonderful,” says Gayle Ha…
Arts + Culture
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN’: GAYLE HALPERIN ON DALLAS’ DANCE SCENE
Dallas’ performing arts scene has been growing tremendously in the past recent years, and although that momentum has mainly been propelled by theater, dance is on its heels. “We have seen a surge, over the past four years, and it’s wonderful,” says Gayle Ha…
Arts + Entertainment
IN BRIEF: ‘Full Gallop,’ ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
The version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, onstage at the Winspear through Aug. 24, feels like a fresher, hipper version of a musical that’s — gasp! — nearly 30 years old. Old things don’t usually seem younger, but when you add a flavor…
Arts + Entertainment
IN BRIEF: ‘Full Gallop,’ ‘The Phantom of the Opera’
The version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, onstage at the Winspear through Aug. 24, feels like a fresher, hipper version of a musical that’s — gasp! — nearly 30 years old. Old things don’t usually seem younger, but when you add a flavor…
Arts + Culture
The unkindest cut
We take a closer look at the suspects in ‘Shear Madness,’ the (very gay) comic mystery at Theatre 3 The victim was not well-liked. Her “friends” all have motives to want her dead. And the bumbling policemen investigating her murder, Nick O’Brien and Mikey T…
Arts + Culture
A performing arts wish list
Many North Texas arts companies have impressive seasons lined up, but these 10 titles are the ones that have us most excited in the coming year ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor As I was compiling the list of all the spectacular dance, theater, music…
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Urie gregarious
From ‘Betty’ to Babs, Plano native Michael Urie prepares for a rite of passage: His North Texas professional stage debut in the one-man comedy ‘Buyer & Cellar’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor If you ask most knowledgeable Americans to name the count…
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Tease & gays
Lesbian burlesque star Lillith Grey puts mystery, and sex appeal, into a reemerging performance art form TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor For most people, the word “burlesque” conjures up images of vaudeville theaters packed full of rowdy working-class men wh…
Arts + Culture
Magic in motion
Chadi El-Khoury is a relative newcomer to the world of dance, but his company is starting to move MARK LOWRY | Special Contributor Chadi El-Khoury’s trajectory as a choreographer is not far removed from his, and his family’s, immigrant story. His parents m…
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