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• Bowfire shows violinists can be exciting entertainers too

  FORT WORTH — Percussionists have the Blue Man Group. Irish dancers have Riverdance. Tap dancers have Stomp. Band geeks have Blast.

• Texas Camerata showcases baroque cantatas

  Texas Camerata delivered fascinating insight into baroque music Sunday evening.

• Dallas Opera's 'Figaro' never spirals into caricature

  A young, talented cast was in the spotlight as the Dallas Opera opened its season Friday with Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at Music Hall at Fair Park.

• Theatre Arlington veteran comes out of retirement

  Penny Patrick retired from Theatre Arlington six years ago, but she couldn't stay away. Patrick, 59, has come out of retirement to be the theater's executive director.

• For those who've had about all of the traditional Christmas theater they can stand, Fort Worth's Circle Theatre is offering a break from those war horses.

• NBC's Last Comic Standing Tour features Dallas' Iliza Shlesinger

  This show boasts nothing less than the "funniest comedians in the nation."

• Arts rail: Modern Dance at the Will Rogers Poultry Barn; production of 'The Pearl’ in Denton; Fiestalorico from Ballet Folklorico Azteca

  Fowl Play: 300 Feet of Modern Dance at the Poultry Barn

• 'A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant' at Circle Theatre

  This production has a lot to offer: It's a rock musical, for one.

• 'The Marriage of Figaro' at Fair Park shows a day in the life of familiar characters

  If you loved the characters in 'The Barber of Seville,' then you'll be reassured to discover that much of that story's hearty crew is on hand in 'The Marriage of Figaro.'

• Pick of the Week in Denton: 'The Pearl' as a multimedia work

  John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" becomes a multimedia work combining actors, live music and film scenes.

• DSO pieces create movement in time

  It's interesting how 100-year-old music affects us nowadays. Some of it sounds old-fashioned, some forward-looking, still transcendent.

• Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's Free Community Concert

  Sometimes, the best things in life really are free, and this concert is a case in point.

• Wanted: Slam poets to compete for cash at MLK event

  Got something to say? Speaking your mind could help you fatten your wallet and snag an invitation to perform during Arlington's MLK celebration in January.

• Edwards' encore performance dazzles audience at Palladium

  Intimacy becomes Kathleen Edwards.

• 'Stomp' is a show greater than the drumming of its parts

  "Stomp" celebrates that most primal of musical instincts: Take one surface. Put it in contact with another. And presto, a rhythm is born.

• Today's new CD releases

  CDDavid Archuleta: The runner-up in American Idol’s seventh season is first out of the gate with his self-titled debut, a predictably ho-hum collection of mid-tempo ballads.

• Texas Ballet Theater gets grant to stay open through the year

  The Texas Ballet Theater announced Friday that it had received a $500,000 grant from the Dallas-based Meadows Foundation, enabling the financially beleaguered ballet to reach its goal of $2 million to keep its doors open the rest of the year.

• ABBA's classic hits, with a classical twist

  This weekend, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra raises the question: How did we survive the 1970s?

• Love Crazy

  The current financial crisis is at the heart of the romantic comedy 'Love Crazy,' in its final weekend at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center's Sanders Theatre.

• Smothers Brothers at Eisemann Center; Vienna Boys Choir at Bass Hall

  The Smothers Brothers Show

• Pick of the week: 'The Book of Job' at Artisan Center Theater

  The Artisan Center Theater is reviving 'The Book of Job,' the late Rudy Eastman and Joe Roger's musical, first produced by Fort Worth's Jubilee Theater.

• Review: Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s van Zweden returns from Chicago debut

  DALLAS — The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s new maestro, Jaap van Zweden, returned to the podium at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Thursday after a five-week absence. During his time away, he made his highly praised debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

• Texas Ballet Theater board to meet to consider changes to accept donation

  The financially strapped Texas Ballet Theater convenes a high-level board meeting today in which it will consider a proposal to revise several key bylaws in order to accept a large grant from a Dallas-based donor.

• Get on your feet for 'Stomp' at Bass Hall

  For once, the oft-used description "explosive" is not an exaggeration, at least when it comes to describing 'Stomp.'

• Texas Ballet Theater’s benefit performance

• 'Uncle Duz Christmas' at Jubilee Theatre

  As far as Jubilee Theatre is concerned, it's never too early to find some friends, locate a piano and have everyone join in for some holiday music -- a scene that eventually makes room for a certain uncle to come and share his special wisdom about the holiday season.

• ABBA: The Hits -- The Symphony Tour at Bass Hall

  OK, we can't resist: You probably will have the time of your life as famed ABBA tribute band Waterloo takes you back to the days of disco balls, bell-bottoms and shimmying to such ABBA classics as 'Dancing Queen' and 'Take a Chance on Me.'

• Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Preview

  When it opens Oct. 12, the under-construction Dallas Center for the Performing Arts -- five spaces for performances -- will be one of the most significant arts facilities in the U.S.

• Fort Worth Opera to stage world premiere of 'Before Night Falls'

  The Fort Worth Opera has announced it will stage the world premiere of Before Night Falls, a new opera by Cuban American composer Jorge Martin, as the centerpiece of its 2010 Opera Festival.

• k.d. lang stages a capital concert at Bass Hall

  FORT WORTH — Some artists embrace success and become defined by it. Others accept fame, but wiggle out of its suffocating grasp, more interested in taking chances and pleasing themselves than in pleasing record-label executives and running up gaudy sales figures.

• Artwork from 1700s believed to be missing surfaces in Dallas

  A lost painting by Italian master Sebastiano Ricci has turned up in Texas after a 300-year journey.

• High-octane play is all Comedy, few Errors

  There was a killing at Bass Hall on Monday night.

• Review: In 'Hollow,' young cast gives new life to an old tale

  ARLINGTON — Ichabod Crane, the lanky schoolmaster of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is pretty much doomed to caricature, whether in live action or animated cartoon portrayals. But there’s more substance to the character in The Hollow, a musical version of the Washington Irving tale treated to a lively staging by a large and youthful cast at Creative Arts Theatre & School.

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