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Weekend Event Planner

These are the 8 best things to do in Fort Worth this weekend

Alex Bentley
Mar 9, 2017 | 6:00 am

This weekend in and around Fort Worth will be a fun one, especially if you're a movie lover. Among the events on tap are a celebration of a Fort Worth comedy institution, screenings of a very recent Oscar-winning film, a concert featuring movie music, a festival dedicated to getting the most out of the Trinity River, and more.

Below are the best options for your precious free time Thursday through Sunday. Don't like what you see? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, March 9

Fort Worth Opera presents Noches de Ópera: History of Mariachi Lecture
Part academic lecture, part musical journey, this event of sight and sound at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth explores the birth of mariachi during the 19th century, as it developed throughout the Mexican states of Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and Michoacán, who all claim its origin. Dr. Donna T. Emmanuel of the University of North Texas delves into the history and the evolution of Mariachi tradition, alongside curated audio selections and thrilling live performances from JP Elder Middle School Mariachi.

Stage West Theatre presents Deer
In the latest production from Stage West, Ken and Cynthia have been married for 30 years. Ken and Cynthia drive to their vacation home for the weekend. Ken and Cynthia hit a deer. Ken just wants to spend the weekend alone with his wife, but Cynthia will not abandon their lifeless, bloody new pet. As the carcass begins to take over their lives, secrets surface, sanity slips, and someone may not be quite as dead as they should be. The play runs through April 9.

Four Day Weekend’s 20th Anniversary Show
For 20 years, Four Day Weekend has entertained more than a half million people in its 212-seat theater in downtown Fort Worth. They are upgrading a bit for their 20th Anniversary Show, being held at Bass Performance Hall, but the show still features the award-winning comedy troupe doing what it does best: performing hilarious scenes and sketches created from audience suggestions. The show also includes trips down memory lane. Expect cameo appearances by recognizable characters from the troupe’s earlier years, along with the members’ own stories and anecdotes about their 20-year journey.

Cliburn Sessions: Sybarite5
The string quintet Sybarite5 has changed the perception of chamber music, with an eclectic repertoire that includes selections from Mozart to Radiohead. Outliers is a program of pieces written by the group’s favorite composers, mixed with works from the friends they’ve made traveling the world performing the music they love. The concert takes place at Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge.

Friday, March 10

Magnolia at the Modern presents The Salesman
The Salesman is now an Oscar winner, claiming the trophy for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards. Forced to leave their apartment due to a dangerous construction project in a neighboring building, a young Iranian couple moves to the center of Tehran, where they become embroiled in a life-altering situation involving the previous tenant. Director Asghar Farhadi also helmed the Oscar-winning feature A Separation. Rated PG-13 and in Persian with English subtitles, the film screens six times through Sunday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies
At this concert, taking place at Bass Performance Hall through Sunday, guests can see remastered clips from the great movie musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein, together with original vocals and a live soundtrack. Movies like Oklahoma!, The King and I, South Pacific, and Carousel are featured, including songs like “Shall We Dance,” “If I Loved You,” and “Some Enchanted Evening,” sung by the original stars and accompanied by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. The concert has three performances through Sunday.

Saturday, March 11

TRWD Flyfest
The Tarrant Regional Water District is partnering with Fort Worth’s urban angling community for TRWD Flyfest. The festival is a family-friendly day of fly fishing, food, wine, and craft beer along the rippling waters of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The main event is the Big Trout Contest, where anglers compete to catch the biggest trout or the most fish in the time allotted. There's also live music and a host of children’s activities, including a mini stocked tank for fishing. The event takes place at Acme Brick Headquarters.

Sunday, March 12

Lone Star Film Society presents Sunday Cinema Series: The Hudsucker Proxy
For the second offering in its Sunday Cinema Series, the Lone Star Film Society presents the Coen Brothers' classic, The Hudsucker Proxy. Tim Robbins plays a business newbie who inadvertently gets promoted to president of his company as part of a stock scam. The film screens at Four Day Weekend Theater.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies, playing at Bass Performance Hall March 10-12.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies
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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies, playing at Bass Performance Hall March 10-12.
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These are the 11 can't-miss shows in Dallas-Fort Worth theater for November

Lindsey Wilson
Nov 4, 2022 | 9:05 am
Casa Mañana presents Here You Come Again: How Dolly Saved My Live in 12 Easy Songs
Photo courtesy of Delaware Theatre Company

Get some advice from Dolly Parton at Casa Mañana.

Before the onslaught of holiday shows begins — who are we kidding, they start right after Thanksgiving — take some time to check out a few new titles and old favorites.

In order of start date, here are 11 local shows to watch this month:

My Fair Lady
Broadway Dallas, November 1-13
Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed? The musical boasts such classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” and “On the Street Where You Live.”

The Sound Inside
Kitchen Dog Theater, November 3-20
In the 17 years since she was last published, novelist Bella Baird has almost completely isolated herself from the world. But things change when she meets Christopher, a brilliant but enigmatic student in her creative writing class at Yale. Intensely intimate and deeply moving, The Sound Inside explores the stories we tell about ourselves, the stories that shape us, and the intersection of fact and fiction.

Gypsy
Mainstage Irving - Las Colinas, November 4-19
“Everything’s Coming Up Roses” with Gypsy, the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters' success while secretly yearning for her own. Set in 1920s and '30s America, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, this landmark musical explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart, and sophistication.

Here You Come Again: How Dolly Saved My Live in 12 Easy Songs
Casa Mañana, November 5-13
This rollicking and touching new musical is about a has-been-who-never-was comedian and his unusual relationship with his longtime idol, Dolly Parton. The show is a celebration of Dolly’s music and of the profound and funny things she has to say to us all about life, love, and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps during the toughest of times — even if your bootstraps don’t have rhinestones.

Feeding on Light
Undermain Theatre, November 10-27
Nora is a curious writer who seeks to understand her friend and collaborator Katherine’s obsession with 20th-century French philosopher and activist Simone Weil. As their discussion deepens, Nora and Katherine embody scenes from Simone’s life in an attempt to communicate with her across time and space. Feeding on Light is based on playwright Lenora Champagne’s personal relationship and discussions with Undermain Theatre’s late founding artistic director Katherine Owens, to whom the play is dedicated.

Dutchman
The Classics Theatre Project, November 11-26
Taking place on a New York City subway car, the play is a two-character confrontation that begins playfully and flirtatiously between Clay, a young, middle-class, Black man, and Lula, a white woman, who approaches him. Their conversation builds rapidly in suspense and symbolic resonance until it becomes something else entirely, ultimately ending fatally.

Bravo Broadway!
Plano Symphony Orchestra, November 19
Featuring Broadway stars Scarlett Strallen, LaKisha Jones, and Hugh Panaro, the PSO’s ruby anniversary also commemorates Maestro Héctor Guzmán’s 40 inspiring years as the Symphony’s music director, and each concert in the season relates to his journey with the PSO. This concert includes songs from Tony Award-winning Broadway shows like Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Dreamgirls,and more.

A Christmas Carol: A New Musical Comedy
Casa Mañana, November 25-December 23
Casa Mañana presents a new, fresh twist on a classic Dickens tale that will have children ages 4 to 100 laughing alike. A Christmas Carol: A New Musical Comedy features a contemporary pop score and current pop culture references that are guaranteed to have audiences dancing in the aisles. This show is suitable for all audiences.

A Christmas Carol
Dallas Theater Center, November 25-December 24
Dallas Theater Center presents their annual production of A Christmas Carol, a delightfully reimagined take on Dickens’ enduring classic. Three spirits have come to visit the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to take him on a fantastic journey through Christmases past, present, and future that annually delights audiences across North Texas. But will it be enough to save Scrooge’s soul?

Crystal City 1969
Cara Mía Theatre, November 26-December 18
Written by David Lozano and Raul Treviño, this play is inspired by the little-known true story of Mexican-American students in South Texas who protested against racial discrimination, walked out of school, and into civil rights history.

Jesus Christ Superstar
WaterTower Theatre, November 30-December 11
The iconic rock opera, featuring award-winning music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary series of events during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas. Reflecting the rock roots that defined a generation, the legendary score includes "I Don’t Know How to Love Him," "Gethsemane," and "Superstar."

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The Good Nurse flatlines as a great serial killer movie despite Oscar-winning stars

Alex Bentley
Nov 3, 2022 | 1:00 pm
The Good Nurse flatlines as a great serial killer movie despite Oscar-winning stars
Photo by JoJo Whilden / Netflix

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse

It could be argued that American audiences and content makers have an uncomfortable obsession with serial killers. That fixation has only grown through the years with the proliferation of true crime podcasts and streaming shows, each of which has returned to mass murderers repeatedly. A relatively recent killer with an unusual method is showcased in the new Netflix film, The Good Nurse.

But anyone expected a dark and gritty film may be disappointed, as the film shifts focus from the killer, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne), to one of his co-workers, Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain). A nurse at Parkfield Memorial Hospital in New Jersey in 2003, she becomes quick friends with Charlie after he starts there as a night nurse.

Their bond, one which becomes tighter after Charlie helps hide the fact that Amy has a debilitating heart condition, keeps her from understanding that Charlie is killing patients, poisoning them by injecting insulin into random IV bags in the hospital’s storage room. It’s only when an internal hospital investigation triggers a police inquiry led by detectives Tim Braun (Noah Emmerich) and Danny Baldwin (Nnamdi Asomugha) that Amy starts to have her doubts.

Directed by Tobias Lindholm and written by Kristy Wilson-Cairns, the film is well done, but never achieves the gravitas that would transform it into something great. Part of this is because the filmmakers never show Charlie as having any outward signs of being evil. He has a bland niceness about him that conceals his lurid impulses; that’s an effective way of showing that you can never know what’s happening in another person’s mind, but an ineffective way of building drama in a film.

The telegraphed nature of Amy and Charlie’s friendship takes on the feel of a slightly higher-class Lifetime movie, one that doesn’t quite fit the expectations brought by two Oscar winners in the lead roles. What ends up being more compelling is the hospital administrators, led by Linda Garran (Kim Dickens), covering up Charlie’s crimes for unknown reasons, and the doggedness of the two detectives trying to discover what exactly is happening.

On another note that’s admittedly a minor quibble, the film’s title does the story no favors. Using The Good… as the start of a title is a vastly overused crutch. Recent examples on both TV and in movies have included The Good Doctor, The Good Fight, The Good Wife, The Good Place, The Good Boss, and The Good House. Sometimes a film can overcome the plainness of such a title, but The Good Nurse is hampered by it.

Chastain and Redmayne each give respectable performances, but they’re nowhere near the award-worthy ones they’ve put on in the past. The most notable actor in the film winds up being Asomugha, a former NFL player who’s been inching into the entertainment industry over the past decade. He’s flat-out great in this role and could use it as a springboard to bigger and better parts.

The Good Nurse has its fair share of interesting moments and accomplished actors to bring them to life, but it falls short of being a must-watch. It’s a serial killer movie that mostly omits the killing, taking most of its reason for being with it.

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The Good Nurse is now streaming on Netflix.

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse

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Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse

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Ice Cream News

Fort Worth gets its first taste of acclaimed New York ice cream shop

Teresa Gubbins
Nov 3, 2022 | 10:30 am
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Their amazing ice cream is justifiably acclaimed.

An artisanal ice cream shop from New York is making its Fort Worth debut: Van Leeuwen, the Brooklyn-born ice cream brand, is opening a location in Fort Worth's WestBend development.

According to a release, the shop will open Thursday, November 10, with a party from 12-4 pm, when they'll be serving scoops for $1. It's located at 1653 River Run #141, and will be open Sunday-Thursday from 12-11 pm, and Friday-Saturday from 12 pm-12 am.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream was started in 2008 out of a yellow truck on the streets of New York by Ben Van Leeuwen, Pete Van Leeuwen, and Laura O’Neill. They now have shops across New York, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, and Connecticut. Pints and ice cream bars are also sold in grocery stores, and they'll ship nationwide from their website.

They're famous for their French-style ice cream, which means lots of cream and egg yolks, and for unique flavors like Honeycomb, Praline Butter Cake, Marionberry Cheesecake, and Earl Grey Tea.

They also offer sundaes, ice cream sandwiches, root beer floats, and milkshakes, and are especially beloved for their vegan and non-dairy selection made from oat and cashew milk, in flavors such as Churros & Fudge, Peanut Butter Brownie Honeycomb, and Cookies & Cream Caramel Swirl.

They also use high-quality ingredients such as pistachios from Mount Etna in Sicily, marionberries from their Oregon farm partner Stahlbush Island Farms, Rishi Tea for their Earl Grey Tea flavor, and for Texas, Praline Butter Cake, made with Texas pecans.

Fort Worth will be their 37th storefront nationally and their fifth in Texas, following their store in Dallas' West Village, plus three locations in Houston, and they have another location in the works for Dallas on Lovers Lane in spring 2023.

“We are psyched to open our first scoop shop in Fort Worth. Texas has been very good to us and we plan to expand further,” says Ben Van Leeuwen in a statement. “We can’t wait to bring the goodness that is Van Leeuwen ice cream to this unique and historic city.”

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