Take Care of My Friend
Director Elizabeth Newman of the Filigree Theatre strayed a bit from her previous repertoire with the world premiere of Take Care of My Friend. Starring Kathleen Fletcher, who wrote the…
Dear Evan Hansen Waves Pain Through a Window
Most theatregoers know the story of Dear Evan Hansen, as it was a tremendous success on Broadway for six years in a row and was also a film and a…
Queen Marie Antoinette in Austin
Courtesy of Ballet Austin, lucky members of the public were able to meet the Queen of France at the Long Center recently. She was in attendance for a performance of…
SXSW LONDON 2026
SXSW is now international: it will return to London this June, after a successful inaugural appearance in 2025. I spoke with Clare Hill, director of marketing & communications for SXSW…
Others Were Here Beforehand: City Theatre Austin’s Men on Boats
There is a single line in Jaclyn Backhaus’s Men on Boats, now running at City Theatre Austin through April 12, that cuts through everything: the rapids, rhetoric, gender politics, and…
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 125 Years
Celebrating its 125th anniversary season, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is now led by Grammy Award-winning Italian conductor Fabio Luisi. The DSO traces its origins to a concert given by a…
Frightening Trends in Design
NICK FOSTER, futures designer and head of Google X from 2016-2023, took to the stage at SXSW in Austin to issue a dire warning about the future of design: “I…
Accessing the Rage of the Heart
In a wide-ranging SXSW discussion about People Skills in a Changing World, two prominent leaders offered a lot of sage advice. Here, I give two of the core arguments from…
JANE FONDA: Tyrants drink fossil fuels
Jane Fonda, 88, started the Committee for the First Amendment in 1947. She reprised her appearance at SXSW 2025 with another one this year, joined by the comedian W. Kamau…
Witch — Bewitchingly Witty
I was fortunate to grab one of the remaining tickets for the closing night performance of Witch, at Hyde Park Theatre, a bewitchingly witty play directed superbly by Ken Webster…