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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This year, Deep Ellum became a national historic landmark — with its decades of music and live theater. Now there's an archivist working to save that history. -
Texas Ballet Theater has a new leader, but opens its season with a work by its longtime director. We look back on Ben Stevenson's career.
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"Wild DFW" author and naturalist Amy Martin's new book is a guide to the rich biodiversity of the area: "The urban ecosystem is where the future lies."
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The downtown neighborhood is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Two new exhibitions were also announced Wednesday.
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In our series on the arts and the economy, we take a look at how hit shows like "Yellowstone" and "1883" are a major reason behind the $200 million incentive.
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In our series on the arts and the economy, we examine why Texas media incentives have been raised higher than ever.
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Cara Mia Theatre received an NEA grant for a translation of a drama about a 16th-century African rebel in Mexico who fought the Spanish to a standstill.
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The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was born amid the US-Russian Cold War in the early '60s. And the contest has maintained an open, apolitical stance ever since. But that hasn't prevented a dwindling of Russian competitors — until there are none at this year's Junior Cliburn.
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Renovation work left J. J. Pearce High School theater program without a theater. But after rehearsing all over the place, they're headed to a national theater festival.
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Fort Worth Opera's 78th season is the first for its new general and artistic director, Angela Turner Wilson
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72 area high schools competed for scholarships and bragging rights Saturday at the Music Hall at Fair Park.
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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.
