BJ Cleveland from Theatre Arlington talks about Jerome Weeks’ article on Kera and about newspapers’ reduced coverage of the arts and what it means for local arts organizations.
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Upcoming Events:
The Code of the Woosters
Thursday, December 18 through Sunday, January 4, 2009
Presented by Stage West
$24-$28 buy tickets
Call 817.784.9378 to order
Another hilarious Jeeves and Wooster story, this one picks up where Right Ho, Jeeves left off. Sure-fire entertainment for the holidays!
Dates:
- Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
- Friday, December 19, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
- Saturday, December 20, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
- Sunday, December 21, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
- Friday, December 26, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
- Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
- Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
- Friday, January 2, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
- Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
- Sunday, January 4, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
IMPLiED SILENCE
Saturday, December 27
Presented by Firehouse Art Studios and Gallery
Call 817.534.3620 to order
Experimental and Improvised music performances by local musicians and performers.
Donations are accepted.
Dates:
- Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Lone Star Circus – Le Cirque
Saturday, December 27 through Wednesday, December 31
Presented by Rosewood Center for Family Arts
$19-$65
Call 214.740.0051 to order
Dallas’ very own LONE STAR CIRCUS® presents Celebration – Le Cirque A Holiday Circus Extravaganza at the Rosewood Center for Family Arts – December 27th through December 31st.
Acrobats, aerialists, hand balancers, jugglers, clowns and an international galaxy of star circus performers will join Dallas’ own Lone Star Circus Arts Center in Celebration – Le Cirque, a Holiday circus extravaganza celebrating the holidays, the end of 2008 and the dawn of a new year.
Produced by Lone Star Circus® and directed by Fanny Kerwich, this dazzling, brand new production will feature over 20 world-renowned artists from Russia, Europe, South America, Mexico, United States and Dallas, Texas. Several remarkably talented children, chosen among the best students of Lone Star Circus School, will perform for the first time along with these elite circus stars, adding their own touch of magic to this unique and exciting holiday event, filled with fun, joy, and amazing circus talent. A perfect family holiday entertainment!
Tickets prices range from $19-$65. Purchase tickets at The Rosewood Center for Family Arts (Dallas Children’s Theater), by phone at 214.740.0051, and online at www.dct.org.
Art&Seek will be giving away a limited number of ticket four-packs to select shows. For more information, see the Art&Seek blog at www.artandseek.org.
Lone Star Circus® is the performing arm of Lone Star Circus Arts Center, a non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas, whose purpose is to promote circus arts through training and performance. It is the brainchild of Fanny Kerwich, a fifth generation circus artist of French descent, who started teaching circus arts several years ago at Dallas International School, and in her own studio, The Expressionists.
Dates:
- Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
- Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
- Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
- Monday, December 29, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
- Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
- Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Fruitcakes
Thursday, December 18 through Sunday, December 21
Presented by Theatre Arlington
$10-$15
Call 817.275.7661 to order
Mix together spiked fruitcakes, three dozen Christmas trees, 10,000 Christmas lights, a runaway kid, a town of eccentrics, and a Christmas hog named Buster – and you’ve got a recipe for a heaping help of hilarity and holiday warmth for the entire family!
Dates:
- Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
- Friday, December 19, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
- Saturday, December 20, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
- Saturday, December 20, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
- Sunday, December 21, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
- Sunday, December 21, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
The Nutcracker
Tuesday, December 23 through Sunday, December 28 – Fair Park Music Hall
Presented by Texas Ballet Theater
Children of all ages will enjoy this glorious traditional holiday journey with Clara as she enters a world where Christmas trees grow 40 feet, mice battle toy soldiers and snowflakes really dance.
Reconstructing the Renaissance: Paintings From An Altarpiece by Fra Angelico
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 through Sunday, February 15, 2009
Presented by Kimbell Art Museum
FREE!
In this focus exhibition, shown only at the Kimbell, the Museum reunites its great Fra Angelico painting with the ensemble to which it originally belonged. The other four paintings in the group are on loan from prestigious collections in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Florence. The panels constituted a predella, which stood at the base of a now-dismembered altarpiece. They illustrate stories from the lives of Saints James, John the Baptist, Dominic and Francis, and Lucy, with a central panel showing the death of the Virgin Mary. Such a predella would have come from an altarpiece incorporating a central Virgin and Child and images of the saints or holy figures, although the other parts of this altarpiece have yet to be conclusively identified. The occasion for the exhibition is the Kimbell’s publication this fall of Laurence Kanter’s book Reconstructing the Renaissance: Saint James Freeing Hermogenes by Fra Angelico. Kanter brought the five altarpiece panels together for the first time in living memory in a Fra Angelico exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2005. Reconstructing the Renaissance is the second volume in the Kimbell Masterpiece Series.
In Pursuit of The Masters: Stories From The Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection
Through Sunday, January 4, 2009
Presented by Nasher Sculpture Center
$0-$10
To mark its fifth anniversary, the Nasher Sculpture Center will mount an exhibition in celebration of its founders. In Pursuit of The Masters: Stories From The Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection presents a personalized and intimate view of the Nasher Collection and the couple that assembled it. Featuring the great masterworks of the collection, as well as a selection of significant and personally meaningful works from its humble beginnings, the exhibition highlights the personal stories behind the works of art, including Patsy and Raymond Nasher’s partnership in pursuit of the finest examples of modern and contemporary sculpture; their close friendships with artists, art dealers, and curators; and the insights that came from living with and sharing the works of art that they loved.