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 […]
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 […]
Love Trumpets Hate: Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective

Photo: Henry Adebonojo Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective Dallas — Six months after an African-American gunman killed five white and Hispanic Dallas police and DART officers, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective rolled into Dallas with […]
Lone Star Circus goes to the dogs in La Fête

Photo: Courtesy Vladimir Tsarkov Circus Celebration The Lone Star Circus treats audiences to another entertaining year with La Fête at Dallas Children’s Theater. by Amy Martin published Thursday, December 29, 2016 Dallas — The circus […]
The Coarse Actor Rises: Fifth Coarse

Photo: Alan Abair Photography: The Coarse Actor Rises at Pegasus Theatre Fifth Coarse Pegasus Theatre revives one of its franchises with a new Kurt Kleinmann play, The Coarse Actor Rises. by Amy Martin published Monday, August […]