By the time this issue reaches you, we will have just entered the twelfth month of a most trying year. While these months have been difficult, they’ve also revealed the resilience of North Texans, who continue to reinvent to save their own businesses and support others, including the arts. Thirty-one days remain in 2020 to make an impact before a new year unfolds, and with it, the first blush of promise. If there were ever a time to donate to the arts it is today.
Lee Cullum presents the hard truths of the suffering the performing arts have endured through the ongoing pandemic in The Show Must Go On. Within the story, she called on 10 arts leaders from Dallas and Fort Worth whose might, dexterity, and inventiveness through withered budgets, have emboldened the path to a brighter tomorrow for troupes and audiences. Our back page exemplifies these necessary pivots through The Dallas Opera. While the company’s stages remain dark, When the Going Gets Tough presents the hard work of two young minds who create...
