The Dallas Symphony’s Cirque de la Symphonie dazzled with music and aerial feats. by Amy Martin published Tuesday, January 7, 2020 Dallas — Who knew a commedia dell’arte juggler could steal the spotlight at a symphony concert? […]
It’s Not a Holiday Show
Matt Lyle and friends add funny to the season with Gold, Frankincense, and Credit Card Debt: A Christmas Holiday December Sketch Comedy Show at Theatre Three. by Amy Martinpublished Monday, December 23, 2019 Photo: Nicole NeelyGold, Frankincense, and Credit Card […]
Family Circus Laughter League’s delightful The Petite Palace is a family affair
Every circus is like a family, even if members are not related. In Petite Palace, head clowns Dick Monday and Tiffany Riley of the Laughter League are the parents who confound and embarrass the children. Ievgeniia Pokrovska Lok is the […]
Trigg Watson: Uncorking the Magic
Photo: George Jennings We check in with Trigg Watson’s Wine and Magic show, at Checkered Past Winery in the South Side on Lamar building. by Amy Martin published Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Dallas — Combine a devotion […]
Austin-based group to bring Big Bend to Big D
Montopolis is the headliner for the GSDFW Awards Nov. 14. Photos courtesy of Montopolis. Oct. 8, 2019 For most people, Big Bend is a myth. They’ve never been there. They’ve read an article perhaps, seen photographs, […]
Joy to the Circus
Photos: Zan Keith Photography. Slappy and Monday, above; Johnathan Lee Iverson, below. Cirque Joyeux, the latest from the Dallas-based Lone Star Circus, offers up an entertaining holiday show at Dallas Children’s Theater. by Amy Martin […]
Earth, Sky, Fun: Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai
The visual and conceptual weirdness of Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai moves from Fort Worth to Frisco this week. by Amy Martin published Monday, December 18, 2017 Fort Worth — The cosmic union of Earth (a petite yellow […]
Q&A: Joey Folsom: Lenny Bruce is Back
Photos: Chuck Marcelo Q&A: Joey Folsom Amy. Martin has an in-depth discussion with the actor about the great Lenny Bruce, who Folsom plays in Lenny Bruce is Back at the Dallas Comedy House, Viva’s Lounge and elsewhere […]
A Brief, Endless Love: A Sketch Comedy Revue
Photo: Matt Lyle From left: Steph Garrett, Jeremy Whiteker, Jeff Swearingen and Kim Lyle Laughter Everlasting Matt Lyle and some old friends bring the hilarious theater/sketch comedy work A Brief, Endless Love to the Dallas Comedy […]
Proscenium Circus
At the Music Hall at Fair Park, Circus 1903, presented by Dallas Summer Musicals, has many high points, and a few low ones. by Amy Martin Dallas — Circus is analog. No special effects. Peter […]
Full Steampunk Ahead: Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities by Cirque du Soleil
Photo: Martin Girard/Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios Grand Prairie — There are moments in this Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities, the latest road show from Cirque du Soleil to tour to North Texas, that if […]