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01/06/2009

Concert Review: Celine Dion an expert performer in front of sold-out American Airlines crowd
The megastar with the astonishing voice performed for a nearly sold-out house Monday night at American Airlines Center. It had been almost a decade since she played Dallas. And she was welcomed in these parts with open arms.

01/05/2009

Dance Review: 'Dancing With the Stars' tour rates an 8 at American Airlines Center

COURTNEY PERRY / DMN

Grammy winner Toni Braxton dances with Alec Mazo.

For anyone who really loves the dance aspects of Dancing With the Stars, more so than the celebrity factor ("Who'll be this season's disaster star?"), the live tour is actually a lot more fun than the show. The version that came to American Airlines Center on Sunday night showcased the show’s professionals more than the stars, and rightly so.
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01/03/2009

Theater Review: Strong acting, dark laughs in 'A Skull in Connemara'

Mark M. Hancock / Special Contributor

Playwright Martin McDonagh has built a career on mayhem. Blood runs in rivers, or sometimes just in rivulets.

12/21/2008

Dance review: Metropolitan Classical Ballet presents a delicate, whimsical 'Nutcracker'
The Nutcracker has many charms, not the least of which is malleability. Metropolitan Classical Ballet's version, borrowed from the Bolshoi Ballet, shows its Russian heritage.

12/20/2008

Classical Music Review: Audience cheerfully chimes in at Orpheus Chamber Singers' Christmas concert
The highest compliment to the Orpheus Chamber Singers may be paid by the audiences that turn out for the choir's annual Christmas concerts. In Saturday evening's concert, the audience-participation carols all but raised the roof of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.

Concert Review: Lil Wayne assumes role as rap superstar
Lil Wayne raced through a muscular, hyperactive 80-minute performance, touching on all phases of his career but leaning most heavily on the critically acclaimed "Tha Carter III."

12/18/2008

Theater Review: 'Trysts in Toledo' makes a pretty picture, but seasoned actors run amok

Farah White

Hiring a stable full of fine actors doesn't help that much if they're allowed, or encouraged, to run amok.

12/17/2008

Classical Music Review: Dallas Bach Society's 'Messiah'
Not even threats of freezing fog deterred a good turnout Tuesday evening for the Dallas Bach Society's Messiah . In fact, with only one person tearing tickets at one door of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, the line of Handelian devotees stretched quite a distance.

12/16/2008

Classical Music Review: Turangalîla Symphony
NEW YORK – Two major composers' centenaries occurred last week, and both were celebrated in New York concerts over the weekend. The American Elliott Carter, amazingly, is still composing; the Frenchman Olivier Messiaen died in 1992.

Classical Music Review: Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus deliver holiday chills in 'Stories of Christmas' concert

Sharon M. Steinman/Special to DMN

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's "The Stories of Christmas" will entertain even jaded listeners.

12/14/2008

Opera Review: 'Elektra'
It's a lurid story. Clytemnestra has taken a lover, Aegisthus, and murdered her husband, Agamemnon. Of Agamemnon's two daughters, Chrysothemis just wants to get on with life and make babies. But Electra vows revenge, and when their brother Orestes resurfaces after a period in hiding, he kills Clytemnestra.

12/16/2008

Concert Review: Manhattan Transfer holiday show is sublime

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Frigid temperatures couldn't stop the heat - or the beat - that built up Monday night at the Eisemann Center, as the Manhattan Transfer took the stage for an hour and a half of thoroughly sublime holiday fare. The Manhattan Transfer can sound as soft as a bevy of doves cooing, or as energetic as a band of angels at full trumpet-from-the-heavens level. No matter the intensity, however, they make anything they sing sound fresh - a rare achievement for a pop-jazz quartet that's been around for 35 years.
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12/14/2008

Theater Review: 'Road Show' a Sondheim musical with a message for today's financial turbulence
NEW YORK – Stephen Sondheim took his sweet time with Road Show , but it couldn't have come into New York at a more appropriate moment.

12/13/2008

Opera Review: The Met's 'Queen of Spades' is done in style
What would be more apt to a cold December afternoon than a dark, cynical Russian opera? The Metropolitan Opera obliged Saturday with the final performance in a run of Tchaikovsky's also-ran, The Queen of Spades. And the Met did it in style, with a cast that, apart from Ben Heppner's announced indisposition, went from vocal strength to strength.

Opera Review: 'Tristan und Isolde' alive and gripping at the Met
For both performers and audiences, an opera as long as "Tristan und Isolde" - five hours Friday night at the Metropolitan Opera - challenges concentration. Imagine then, just off the center of your view of the Met stage, a woman fiddling with her PDA, flashing green light and all. That was my experience for the first 30 minutes of the opera's last act Friday. Oh, for some of Isolde's death potion.

Theater Review: Horton Foote's daughter stands out in 'Dividing the Estate' on Broadway
Horton Foote disguises himself as a writer of old-fashioned well-made plays. Underneath, the 92-year-old Texas native is a trickster, almost an experimentalist.

12/10/2008

Concert Review: Colbie Caillat performs at House of Blues
One of the more fascinating pop music archetypes is that of the young female star: She starts out as a Sweet Young Thing (and not necessarily in the arena of music) and morphs into anything from troubled train wreck (see: Spears, Britney) to disciplined, even icy, pro (see: Lavigne, Avril).

12/11/2008

Video Game Review: PlayStation Home remains a work in progress

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