Jerome Weeks
Senior Arts Reporter/Producer, Art&SeekJerome Weeks is the Art&Seek producer-reporter for KERA. A professional critic for more than two decades, he was the book columnist for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines.
Mr. Weeks was an entertainment reporter for the Houston Post and an associate editor for Third Coast magazine. He has won five Katie Awards from the Dallas Press Club, a graduate journalism fellowship from Columbia University and a Knight Digital Media Fellowship to the University of California-Berkeley. He has appeared on Studio 360, C-SPAN’s Booknotes and the PBS documentary Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater. Mr. Weeks is a member of both the National Book Critics Circle and the American Theatre Critics Association, and was recently named a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
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Seventy-two Texas school theater programs compete in Broadway Dallas' annual awards show. It's a big deal for these high schoolers. -
Taylor Swift fans and sports teams among supporters of Sen. John Cornyn's ticket selling regulationsU.S. Sen. John Cornyn came to Dallas Wednesday with his campaign to stiffen federal regulation of ticket selling and re-selling.
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Drawing on the extensive, private collection of Jeffrey Montgomery, "Form & Function" is the largest show of Japanese art the Dallas museum has ever shown: All six of its galleries are filled — and will stay that way for a full year.
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More than 60 years after the classic novel came out, Atticus Finch remains one of the most beloved characters in literature. But a new stage adaptation on tour in Dallas makes changes some people may take issue with.
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"Lives of the Gods" is only appearing in New York and Fort Worth. Over half the artworks have never been seen in the US. Some are new discoveries.
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"If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future" at the African American Museum in Fair Park features 60 artworks from Southern Africa. It's one small part of a 25,000-item art collection from the late owner of Nando's chicken chain.
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Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's poetry.
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More than 40 works by the artist will be on display at Erin Cluley Gallery in a show called "Crazier than Crazy Quilts."
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New owner Edwin Cabaniss has plans beyond just renovating the legendary music hall. When he's done, there'll be a music complex in the Cedars.
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Inspired by an 1863 sculpture at the Carter of a Black man in shackles, the artists consider what's been happening to African Americans the past 160 years.
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Co-founder of the Undermain Theatre, Parry was an unusual choice to head the classic theater in 2003. But he's led it through freezes and financial setbacks.
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It also features new record releases, part of the "Ring" cycle, a rare comic opera from a Nazi camp and composer Danny Elfman ("Batman," "The Simpsons")
