Story archive for February 2008

About: Arts

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Friday, Feb. 29

• Robert Dodson named new Director of Division of Music at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts

• Movie review: City of Men

• Eco film fest hosted by Dallas’ St. Marks School

• Bravo TV star Jai Rodriguez and Tony Award winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia to attend Column Awards

• Last weekend to catch these 19 theater productions (Feb. 29-Mar. 2)

• Movie review: Semi-Pro

• Movie review: The Band’s Visit

• 11 theater productions opening this weekend (Feb. 29-Mar. 2)

Thursday, Feb. 28

• Art Openings and Receptions: Feb. 29 - Mar. 2

• Opera Review: Porgy & Bess

• Main Street Theatre in Mansfield has closed its doors

• Obama tells Kraddick “Jonas Brothers are on my daughter’s wall”

• Rover Dramawerks replaces Grotesque Lovesongs with Gilligan’s Island: The Musical

• Six Flags Over Texas to launch ‘08 season March 1 with Fly Me to the Moon 3D film tie-in

Wednesday, Feb. 27

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Natalie Gaupp

• Thornwood Gallery presents: Onyeka Ibe

• AFI Dallas announces two new filmmaker awards for 2008

• Oscar overdose, take two: Dallas film lover watches all five “best picture” nominees in one day

• Theater Review: Bare

Tuesday, Feb. 26

• Dallas Summer Musicals offering 3-show mini-packages before tickets go on sale

• Colleges and universities all over the metroplex opening theater productions this week

• New on DVD: 30 Days of Night, Beowulf, The Darjeeling Limited, In the Shadow of the Moon

• Radio UTD will air Sunday on XM

• SXSW 2008 in DFW: Cheaper than the real thing!

Monday, Feb. 25

• Dallas Museum of Art acquires new painting in honor of outgoing Senior Curator Dorothy Kosinski

• Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Unveils Inaugural Season of Brinker International Forum

• Bill’s Records hosts Erykah Badu midnight release/album signing party tonight

• Oscar overdose: Arlington film lover views all five “best picture”-nominated movies in one day

• Spire Realty Group welcomes Arts Magnet students back to Downtown Dallas

• Theater Review: Crimes of the Heart

Sunday, Feb. 24

• UPDATED: First monthly Pegasus News Showcase this Friday: Done and done

• Global Sacred Music Celebration coming to Unity Church of Dallas

• Movie review: Vantage Point

• Lifetime filming movie about McKinney cheerleading scandal in New Orleans

Saturday, Feb. 23

• Concert review: Robbie Fulks

• Helen Hunt directorial debut will be opening night film for AFI Dallas 2008

Friday, Feb. 22

• Photo gallery: Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Gala

• The Connection set to perform in Southwest Asia

• Southlake’s Alpha & Omega Mounted Cavalry to provide security at Michigan’s Rothbury Music Festival

• Movie review: Be Kind Rewind

• Tickets for Monty Python’s Spamalot go on sale Saturday

• Tickets to The Police, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z & more on sale soon

• Theater Review: Daisy in the Dreamtime

• Closing weekend for the following 19 theater productions (Feb. 22-24)

• Movie review: Charlie Bartlett

• New wave of plays and musicals for DFW this weekend (Feb. 22-24)

Thursday, Feb. 21

• Art openings and receptions, Feb. 22-24

• Interview: Arianne Martin, star of Red Victoria

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Shawn Gann

Wednesday, Feb. 20

• UTD co-presents Social Fabrics, a wearable media art/fashion event

• Theater Review: La Cage Aux Folles

• Mesquite Community Theatre kicks off 2008 season this week with The Sugar Bean Sisters

• TACA handed out record $1 million to 36 Dallas-area arts organizations

• Theater Review: Love, Janis

• Studio Movie Grill announces special screening of new Veggie Tales movie

• Uptown revival continues with bold sculpure by artist Dennis Heimbach

Tuesday, Feb. 19

• Erykah Badu and Ghostbar Dallas to host charity fundraiser

• Theater Review: Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

• The Last Emperor limited edition 4-disc DVD: only at Landmark Theatres

• Teatro de la Rosa opens Anna in the Tropics this week

• Polyphonic Spree’s label, TVT Records, filing for bankruptcy

• UPDATED: Fiesta Latinoamericana! in Plano this weekend

• Theater Review: They’re Playing Our Song

Monday, Feb. 18

• New on DVD: Lust, Caution, American Gangster, Michael Clayton and Margot at the Wedding

• UT Dallas Chamber Singers & Jazz Band to perform “Over the Rainbow” Feb. 29 & March 1

• 7th Annual Texas Guitar Competition at UT Dallas begins March 6

• Rover Dramawerks calling writers, directors, and actors for One Day Only festival

• Dallas Summer Musicals presents new Janis Joplin musical for one week only

• Jay Z and Mary J. Blige come to Superpages.com Center on April 12

• The Police stop in Dallas on May 21 for the last time EVER

• Music scholars to speak at UNT

• Counter Culture at Mockingbird Station in Dallas launches Friday night local musician series

Saturday, Feb. 16

• Movie review: 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

• WaterTower Theatre seeking 13-ish-year-old girl

Friday, Feb. 15

• PegNews exclusive: AFI Dallas programmers announce their “fave five” films of 2007

• Ugly Betty star, Michael Urie, returns to co-host Column Awards

• Dallas Theater Center extends Ella through February 24

• Dallas to host 2008 Tejano Music Convention

• Oscar presenter lineup now includes big-name stars - Yay!

• AFI Dallas touts Wizard of Oz event

• Last chance to see these 11 plays and musicals (Feb. 15-17)

• Big weekend of theater openings for the metroplex (Feb. 15-17)

• Movie review: Diary of the Dead

Thursday, Feb. 14

• Audio interview: George Romero, director of Diary of the Dead

• Art openings and receptions, Feb. 15-17

• Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico welcomes new Artistic Director

• Theater Spotlight of the Week: Jason Folks

• Audio interview: Kerry Cole, stage manager at Dallas’ Theatre Three

• Van Cliburn Foundation to honor … Van Cliburn?

• Movie review: Definitely, Maybe

• Movie review: Step Up 2 the Streets

Wednesday, Feb. 13

• SXSW further eradicates cachet by hooking up with Wendy’s and Dr Pepper sponsorships

• Lyric Stage set to present They’re Playing Our Song

• Europe’s Tripsichore Yoga Theatre coming to Lakewood this Friday

Tuesday, Feb. 12

• Deep Blue Something will tour Midwest and Northeast during February-March

• Local Artist Spotlight: Sergio Garcia

• Kitchen Dog Theater opens Trestle at Pope Lick Creek this week

• SXSW Film Fest 2008 announces panels and workshops

• Radiohead coming to um Superpages.com in Dallas on May 18

• UPDATED: Blue Shoe Project’s Grammy win helping keep blues alive

• New on DVD: Gone Baby Gone, No Reservations and Romance & Cigarettes

• UPDATED with video: Nominations announced for 9th Annual Column Awards

Monday, Feb. 11

• UNT Chamber Orchestra performance to feature music faculty participation

• UT Dallas talk to explore ‘Spiritual Art in the Age of Science’

• Theater Review: Slaughterhouse 5

• Echo Theatre previews and opens Daisy in the Dreamtime this week

• Dallas Museum of Art to welcome novelist Philippa Gregory

• Blue Shoe Project’s Last of the Great Mississippi Bluesmen wins Grammy

Sunday, Feb. 10

• Maren Morris raising money for music video

• Texas Gypsies release new album, Café du Swing

• Spike Lee speaks at UT Arlington

• SXSW music lineup includes local acts

• David “Honeyboy” Edwards shines at blues concert in Grapevine celebrating Grammy nomination

Saturday, Feb. 9

• KERA’s Think interviews DMA curator Dorothy Kasinski and Tate Britain curator Ian Warrell

• Movie review: In Bruges

• Kettle Art presents: Formal

Friday, Feb. 8

• Bob Dylan to play three-night engagement at House of Blues February 21-23

• Interview: Cinematic Titanic guys J. Elvis Weinstein and Frank Conniff

• Theater Review Part Deux: The Lovers

• The Cameron Gallery opens soon in the Dallas Design District

• Last weekend to catch these 7 theater productions (Feb. 8-10)

• Movie review: The Hottie and the Nottie

• New round of plays and musicals for DFW this weekend (Feb. 8-10)

• Movie review: Fool’s Gold

Thursday, Feb. 7

• Art openings and receptions, Feb. 8-10

• Theater Review: The Lovers

• Notre Dame professor to discuss Old English poetry at UT Arlington

• Fort Worth Circle artists and American snapshots are subjects of two exhibitions opening at the Amon Carter Museum

• Theater Spotlights of the Week: Eric Simonson & Marianne Galloway

Wednesday, Feb. 6

• Ken Turetzky interview by XM Radio’s Phil Iazzetta

• Bluegrass news and events, near and far

• Film Ephemera from UT Austin comes to Dallas

• Eastfield Library presents “Black Art: Ancestral Legacy”

• Dallas Children’s Theater set to open Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

Tuesday, Feb. 5

• Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra to auction off violins painted by world-renowned artists

• ONSTAGE in Bedford kicks off 2008 season with La Cage Aux Folles this week

• 2008 I Got Soul Conference comes to Dallas in June

• KERA’s Think interviews John Pomara, local artist and UTD Associate Professor of Visual Arts

• SXSW Film Fest announces their 2008 lineup

• Ozone Magazine’s January Rapquest for Dallas/Fort Worth

• Opera Review: Salome

• New on DVD: Across the Universe, The Brave One and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Monday, Feb. 4

• Labyrinth Theatre opens Rocket Man this week

• Interview with Eran Kolirin, writer/director of The Band’s Visit

• Tickets now on sale to Uptown Players’ bare

• And the 2008 Texas Music Award nominees are…

• V-Day Event: UT Dallas Rat PAC Presents The Vagina Monologues

• Getting to know your scene: Six questions with DFWpunks.net

Sunday, Feb. 3

• Studio Movie Grill rolls out new North Dallas location

• Eisemann Center receives Mid-America Arts Alliance Grant for Pilobolus performance and Master Class

Saturday, Feb. 2

• Movie review: The Eye

Friday, Feb. 1

• WaterTower Theatre announces lineup for 2008 Out of the Loop Festival

• Lone Star 92.5 fires legendary Dallas DJ Redbeard

• Movie review: Over Her Dead Body

• Last chance to see these plays and musicals (Feb. 1-3)

• Opening weekend for 6 theater productions (Feb. 1-3)