Film Review
John Woo’s new epic, Red Cliff, may lack heart, but it succeeds as a thrilling war film.

Theater Review
Port Twilight or the History of Science makes its world premiere at the Undermain Theatre through December 12.

Theater Review
If you are going for a popcorn thriller, it’s easier to achieve mindless if you keep it meaningless. But this isn’t what Allison Moore does in Slasher, making its Southwest premier at the Kitchen Dog Theater.

Theater Review
Ochre House’s Empty Room
Through November 21, 825 Exposition Avenue

Theater Review
Two intrepid explorers set out to scale A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Dallas: Kevin Moriarty at the Dallas Theatre Center and Kyle Lemieux at the University of Dallas. If the Wyly is hosting Moriarty’s techno dance party, Lemieux is spinning old vinyl. Records are longer and richer but come with clicks, pops and skips.

Theater Review
A Lie of the Mind at Second Thought Theatre
Through November 14

Music Review
Ramsey Lewis Trio and Al Jarreau
Jazz Roots at the Winspear Opera House
November 4

From the musical interludes, to the nerf gun fight, to the bizarre hipster clothing of the characters, made to look like boppy Breakfast Club kids of the Noughties, the Dallas Theater Center’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an exercise in the infantile.

Theater Review
Upstart Productions proves it has the attitude and cojones to tackle Eric Bogosian’s Pulizer Prize-nominated play Talk Radio.

Art Review
Ellen Frances Tuchman’s Out of My Mind is not so much insanity as it is savant. Like Raymond in the film, “Rain Man,” Tuchman rapid-fires free associates at the drop of a hackneyed phrase.