Manuel Mendoza

2 weeks ago | keranews.org | Manuel Mendoza

After a couple of hours of eye-popping pageantry, with occasional forays into storytelling, the visual and narrative elements of The Lion King finally come together near the end of the spectacular musical. From the start, design dominated the tour production of the runaway Broadway hit currently on display at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Presented by Broadway Dallas, it began on opening night with a parade of characters swooping up the aisles, including a gaggle of oversized puppets.

4 weeks ago | keranews.org | Manuel Mendoza

When Bruce Wood was lured back to the North Texas dance scene in 2011, the Fort Worth native wasted no time realizing his long-held dream to make an all-male work. Backed in the 1990s, he’d considered starting a men’s troupe and over the years compiled a box of ideas that eventually inspired I’m My Brother’s Keeper. Bruce Wood Dance Dallas, the late choreographer’s legacy company, is reviving it as part of a program that includes new pieces by dance-makers he influenced and who influenced him.

1 month ago | keranews.org | Manuel Mendoza

Less than two weeks after Loris Beckles moved to Dallas, his partner died of complications from AIDS. Andre R. George had come to the city in 1994 to join Dallas Black Dance Theatre. The next year, George launched his own troupe, Nova: A Dancers’ Company. Rather than returning to New York, where he had performed for years in the Alvin Ailey junior companies and for the groundbreaking choreographer Eleo Pomare, Beckles decided to stay and carry on George’s work and his own in Dallas.

1 month ago | keranews.org | Manuel Mendoza

The relationship between the 13th-century poet Rumi and his mentor Shams Tabrizi lasted just 40 days. But the brief encounter shook his traditional religious upbringing and led to a body of work whose influence has cut across faiths, cultures and historical periods. Sam Brukhman is one of the most recent to be touched by the story of the Persian mystic. Two years ago, the founder and artistic director of the Verdigris Ensemble conceived Shams, an audiovisual production he says changed his life.

1 month ago | keranews.org | Manuel Mendoza

Circle Theatre is giving the prolific Lauren Yee’s imaginative play its regional premiere.