3/4 - 6/17 The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark Kimbell Art Museum, www.kimbellart.org
The Kimbell Art Museum is the sole American venue for this first-ever international touring exhibition of the renowned collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
3/13 - 3/16 Family Fun Week
Amon Carter Museum of American Art www.cartermuseum.org
Bring the whole family for art exploration and art-making!
3/14 Visiting the Work of Jackson Pollock Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth www.themodern.org
1/13 - 1/29 Noises Off!
Theatre Arlington, www.theatrearlington.org
Called the funniest farce ever written, this play within a play provides a hysterical glimpse of what happens backstage while rehearsing a flop of a farce called “Nothing’s On.”
1/27 Lewis Black
Performing Arts Fort Worth, www.basshall.com
Lewis Black is one of the most prolific and popular performers working today. Lewis executes a brilliant trifecta as stand-up comedian, actor and author.
1/27 - 2/5 Laughter on the 23rd Floor Denton Community Theatre www.dentoncommunitytheatre.com
Wonderful Wednesdays is a program for families with young children, led by a docent and includes a gallery project designed by the education department.
Neil Simon looks behind the scenes of a successful comedy and finds more comedy! Based on Simon’s experiences as a young writer, the real wackiness of a 1953 TV comedy show, according to Simon, took place in the writers’ room.
3/23 - 3/25 Art On The Greene Art Festival
1/27 - 2/12 Madeline and the Gypsies
Richard Greene Linear Park will play host to this Inaugural Art On The Greene Fine Arts Festival.
This musical adaptation captures all the magic of Ludwig Bemelmans’ beloved 1959 book.
Moya Art Events, www.moyaart.com
3/29 3 Under 30
Amon Carter Museum of American Art www.cartermuseum.org
Rebecca Lawton, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, presents this Gallery Talk. Get inspired as you learn about the great works created by Frederic Edwin Church, Arthur Dove, and John Singer Sargent during their twenties.
1/27 - 2/26 Pretty Fire
Back by popular demand after a six-show, sold-out run in 2011, Dixie Longate is a fast-talking Tupperware lady who packed up some catalogs, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm!
Jubilee Theatre, www.jubileetheatre.org
A young girl’s coming of age story composed of live autobiographical vignettes that begin with her premature birth and end with her first solo performance in her church’s junior choir.
2/24 - 3/11 Willy Wonka Jr. Theatre Arlington www.theatrearlington.org
Roald Dahl’s timeless story of the world famous candy man comes to life in this stage adaptation.
2/28 - 3/4 The Elephant Man Theatre TCU, www.tcu.edu
3/1 - 3/4 Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie www.verizontheatre.com
4/22 - 6/17 Focus: Ged Quinn
Jenny, an enthusiastic new music teacher, arrives on Sesame Street only to discover that her instruments are missing. Jenny’s new Muppet friends quickly come to the rescue
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, www.themodern.org Ged Quinn’s paintings combine landscapes in the vein of Claude Lorrain with fragments of history, art history, and mythology. The works are awe-inspiring in the combination of painterly skills and provocative conceptual strains.
3/2 - 3/11 The Laramie Project DVA Productions www.dvaproductions.org
2/3 - 2/4 Stained Glass Theatre TCU, www.tcu.edu
“Stained Glass” By Randy Jackson-Alvarenga is presented at Hays Theatre.
2/3 - 3/10 Fiddler on the Roof Plaza Theatre Company
Fiddler on the Roof is presented at the Plaza Theatre Company.
Thru 1/28 Rumple – Steal – Skin
2/4 - 3/7 Disney’s Aladdin Jr.
A miller’s daughter must try to spin straw into gold for the King. When a strange little man offers to help her, she doesn’t realize that he wants to steal everything she owns.
All of your favorite characters are here in Disney’s Aladdin Jr., a stage adaptation of the Disney hit film. Filled with magic, mayhem, and flying carpet rides, audiences’ spirits will soar with excitement.
Baruch Spinoza’s radical beliefs on God and religion draw him into a riveting trial which irrevocably challenges Western thought.
Performing Arts Fort Worth www.basshall.com
“The Elephant Man” was first produced in London at the Hampstead Theatre. It soon moved to New York and opened Off-Broadway at the Theatre of St. Peter’s Church, and then to Broadway and the Booth Theatre.
Glass comes in all shapes and sizes at the annual glass art sale. The sale includes works by students and faculty and attracts hundreds of participants, with more than 1,000 pieces sold last year.
Stage West www.stagewest.org
Join all your favorite barn-yard characters for this classic tale by E.B. White. The whole family will love this tale of friendship and loyalty! This show is suitable for all audiences.
2/15 - 2/26 Dixie’s Tupperware Party
University of North Texas Art Gallery, www.unt.edu
Thru 1/29 New Jerusalem
Casa Manana, www.casamanana.org
An abandoned church-turned-day-spa is the setting for this hilarious southern comedy. The feisty females of Eden Falls, Georgia, gather every Friday afternoon at SPA-DEE-DAH!
3/30 UTA Glass Art Sale
The Foreigner is presented at the Plaza Theatre Company.
2/10 - 2/26 Charlotte’s Web
Runway Theatre, www.runwaytheatre.com
Outspoken, precocious, lovable Junie B. Jones stars in a colorful, funny, fast-paced musical about new friends, new glasses, sugar cookies, the annual kickball tournament and other various first-grade, angst-ridden situations.
Plaza Theatre Company, www.plaza-theatre.com
A German civil servant’s world is suddenly turned upside down! During a visit from the King, his wife’s underpants slip to the ground and he is convinced this is the end of his career and social standing.
1/27 - 2/12 Hallelujah Girls
Performing Arts Fort Worth, www.basshall.com
Thru 1/28 The Foreigner
Onstage in Bedford www.onstageinbedford.com
Creative Arts Theatre & School, www.creativearts.org
1/29 Junie B. Jones
Artisan Center Theater, www.artisanct.com
2/10 - 2/26 The Underpants
Artisan Center Theater, www.artisanct.com
2/7 - 2/12 Monty Python’s Spamalot
Performing Arts Fort Worth, www.basshall.com
The funniest show on earth is back to taunt Fort Worth for a second time! Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot, the musical comedy sensation lovingly ripped off from the film classic “Monty Python and The Holy Grail.”
2/9 - 3/18 The Sports Page
On October 6th of 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His torture and murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted many of the fault lines in culture.
3/3 - 3/11 Rent
Casa Manana, www.casamanana.org
Everyone’s favorite rock opera musical, Rent, is back! Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent tells the unforgettable story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling and learning to survive, fall in love, find their voices and live for today.
3/6 - 4/1 Come Back to the Five and Dime... Runway Theatre www.runwaytheatre.com
In a small town dime store in West Texas, the “Disciples of James Dean” gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middleaged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed “Giant” two decades ago in nearby Marfa.
3/9 - 3/25 Greater Tuna
Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players www.carnegieplayers.com
The first rollicking comedy set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the “third-smallest” town in the state.
Stage West, www.stagewest.org
Dallas playwright and former sports writer Larry Herold takes a comic look back at a Dallas Cowboys training camp in 1966, when the whole media world is about to change. Winter 2012
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