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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Listen to the new KERA series Gun Play this week. Hosts Hady Mawajdeh and Jerome Weeks follow Dallas' Cry Havoc Theater Company as its student actors travel across the country talking to people on all sides of the firearms debate. -
He met George Gershwin as a child and fell in love with his music. He went on to sell luxury goods by mail order like no one else — and then created one…
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By a unanimous vote, the Dallas City Council approved a new cultural plan on Wednesday – the first the city’s had since 2002. After 16 months of…
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When it started six years ago, Southern Methodist University’s National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) already had the largest arts database in America.…
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You can’t get much simpler than the materials Denton artist Taylor Barnes often uses – just black charcoal on white fabric. Or tree branches and twine. A…
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At Hamon Hall inside Dallas’ Winspear Opera House, volunteers sort through some 7,000 donated shoes on the floor. Sneakers, flip-flops, high heels, hiking…
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Ground was broken Friday on another high-end, residential high-rise in downtown Dallas near Klyde Warren Park, but this one is different: It's designed…
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"You’re listening to the best in town," my car radio tells me, "the best around: 'The Local Mix'..."Actually, you probably haven’t been listening to “The…
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A landmark exhibition that addresses former President Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated relationship with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves who bore six of…
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If you’ve driven along Northwest Highway in Dallas, you’ve seen Lovers Lane United Methodist Church. It’s the large, white, rocket-ship-looking house of…
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has appointed Grammy-winning Fabio Luisi as its new music director. Luisi has a five-year contract and replaces Jaap van…
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The Dallas Symphony filled one of its major leadership gaps Friday morning.Kim Noltemy, the chief operating and communications officer for the Boston…
