This Week in the Arts

 

 Level Ground Arts and Rover Dramawerks [26:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week our guests were Billy Fountain, founder and director at Level Ground Arts, and Carol M. Rice, Co-founder and Artistic Director of Rover Dramawerks. Billy talks about his philosophy behind Level Ground’s unique brand of theatre and about their latest production, Cannibal: The Musical. Carol talks about her career in performing arts and about Rover Dramawerks.

Level Ground Arts
Rover Dramawerks
Cannibal: The Musical

 

 Les Retrouvailles [54:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week our guests are Sarah Jane Semrad, Lindsey Holloway and D.C. Anderson. Sarah is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of La Reunion Texas, Lindsey Holloway is a Dallas actress, and D.C. Anderson is a long-time member of the Phantom of the Opera cast as well as being a singer and song-writer. Also, don’t miss our tangent into Dallas history with the story of the original La Reunion Socialist settlement in 1855.

La Reunion Texas
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Lindsey Holloway
D.C. Anderson

Corrections: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is no Longer showing at Theatre 3, Also, I mispronounced D.C. Anderson’s name at the end of the podcast.

 

 Copenhagen: Or the Case of the undead Cat [26:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week’s episode is about quantum physics… Well, quantum physics in so far as it relates to a play called Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. My guests this week are physicists Nelson Claytor and Sandy Kern as well as prominent local actor Chamblee Ferguson, who is one of the stars in Stage West’s production of Copenhagen.

I should apologize to anyone who knows anything about physics up front for mistakes and glaring omissions – they are all entirely my fault and have nothing to do with the intelligent and insightful guests.

Also on this episode, Mark Lowry of Theater Jones reviews “From the Missippi Delta” and “Having our Say.”

Stage West
Jubilee Theatre
African American Repertory Theater

 

 Art Madness!!! [61:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we had so many interviews we didn’t know what to name the show. We interview four arts professionals! Elizabeth Kornhauser with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Andrea Karnes from the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, as well as Marianne Galloway and Alan Shorter.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Amon Carter Museum
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
Circle Theatre

 

 Bart Weiss and Taylor Mac [48:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This weeks interviews are with Bart Weiss, with VideoFest, and Taylor Mac, playwright.

VideoFest
Taylor Mac
And read more about Taylor Mac and ‘The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac’ at ArtAndSeek.org

 

 Dennis Yslas [52:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we interviewed Dennis Yslas from the Fort Worth Opera, Onstage in Bedford and the Column Awards, and also a fantastic interview with Jay Dias of Lyric Stage. Mark Lowry’s review this week is of Give it Up at the Dallas Theatre Center

Fort Worth Opera
Onstage in Bedford
The Column Awards

Lyric Stage in Irving

Also, check out Dennis’ interview with Theater Jones.

 

 Donald Jordan: Artistic Director [50:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we interview Don Jordan, the artistic director of City Rep in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma about his career in theatre, his founding of City Rep, and about their upcoming season. Shane Strawbridge’s Theatre Spotlight is on David Lugo of comedy group Lugo and Long.

City Rep Theatre
Lugo & Long

 

 Janet Wong: Associate Artistic Director [41:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week’s show includes interviews with Janet Wong of the Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Dance Company and C. Nicholas Morris. Mark Lowry’s review this week is of August: Osage County.

Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Dance Company

 

 Gardar Eide Einarsson: Artist [31:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we interviewed artist Gardar Eide Einarsson. We talked to him about his influences, his most recent projects and his first experience with the Uniteds States when he moved to New York City on September 10, 2001. And don’t miss Shane Strawbridge’s interview with Bruce Coleman, local director and playwright.

The Modern
Theatre Three