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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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.
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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.