Liz Johnstone

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Articles by Liz Johnstone

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  Theater & Dance

  Theater Review: Why You Won’t Find One of the Weekend’s Best Performances Inside a Theater

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  June 7th, 2013 1:34pm

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  G Y R

  Location

  The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Parking Lot 2719 Routh St. Dallas, TX 75201 Buy Tickets

  Dates

  June 6 thru June 8

  Stefan Novinski’s production of Annie Baker’s The Aliens is a wonderful, bittersweet surprise, in no small part because her delicate, layered work performed out-of-doors.

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  Theater & Dance

  Theater Review: Jubilee Theatre’s Knock Me A Kiss Wonders If Duty Should Come Before Love

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  June 4th, 2013 9:31am

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  Rating

  G Y R

  Location

  Jubilee Theatre 506 Main Street Fort Worth, TX 76102 Buy Tickets

  Dates

  May 17 thru Jun 16

  Charles Smith’s play could have easily translated as a tad overwrought, what with the characters’ frequent flights of high-minded, tongue-twisting fancy. But not in the steady hands of director Tre Garrett.

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  Theater & Dance

  What You Should Look For at This Year’s Festival of Independent Theaters

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  May 30th, 2013 1:11pm

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  The Festival of Independent Theatres sneaked up on us a little this year, which means it’s right up against Kitchen Dog Theater’s New Works Festival. So many plays, so little time.

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  Theater & Dance

  Interview: Alia Tavakolian on Her New Theater Collective and Sarah Kane, Plus The Theater You Should See This Weekend

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  May 23rd, 2013 3:18pm

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  We spoke with Tavakolian about the Davis Street Collective, a hodgepodge new theater troupe, and the little-performed play by Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, they will present in a gallery.

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  Theater & Dance

  How August Wilson and Miles Davis Helped Jubilee Theatre’s Tre Garrett Find His Voice

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  May 13th, 2013 10:41am

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  He thought he’d be 50 before he got this job. Twenty years ahead of schedule, Tre Garrett is the best young artistic director in North Texas.

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  Theater & Dance

  Theater Review: A Sixties-Set, Millennial Love Song, Fly by Night Soars To Such Great Heights

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  May 8th, 2013 8:37am

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  Rating

  G Y R

  Location

  Kalita Humphreys Theater 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Dallas, TX 75219 Buy Tickets

  Dates

  Apr 26 thru May 26

  For all the darkness both literal and figurative inherent to Fly by Night, an ambitious work that examines high-minded ideas of fate, prophecy, and connectedness, there’s something almost blindingly brilliant about it.

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  Theater & Dance

  The Theater You Should See This Weekend: Openings, Closings, and the Local Productions That Scored Award Nods

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  By Liz Johnstone

  Post date:

  May 2nd, 2013 9:07am

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  Closing at Stage West and Dallas Summer Musicals, and openings and one-offs at the Winspear and Wyly, top our run down of this weekend’s theater happenings.

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  Pop Music

  Ticket Giveaway: Boris at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  April 24th, 2013 1:28pm

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  Location

  Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio 411 E Sycamore St Denton, TX 76205

  We’re giving away a pair of tickets to see Japanese experimental rock/metal band Boris at Rubber Gloves.

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  Theater & Dance

  The Theater You Should See This Weekend: Reviewing Dreams of Slaughtered Sheep, and More

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  By Liz Johnstone

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  April 19th, 2013 9:18am

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  Posey aims for real seriousness with what might be his first truly original play, and brushes up against a creepy, delicious darkness.

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  Genre

  More Movies With Directors at the Dallas International Film Festival Tonight

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  By Liz Johnstone

  Post date:

  April 12th, 2013 3:45pm

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  Here are some film titles with directors in attendance that are not yet sold out online. Snag your tickets.

  Brave Miss World, directed by Cecilia Peck – 4 p.m. at the Angelika

  Beyond Right and Wrong, directors Lekha Singh, Roger Spottiswoode – 4:30 p.m. at the Magnolia

  Houston – 4:15 p.m. at the Angelika.

  Sanitarium, directors Kerry Valderrama, Bryan Ortiz, Bryan Ramirez – 10 p.m. at the Magnolia

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