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After nine years and national attention, the company of teen actors who research, write and perform their own plays is bringing down the curtain.

A stage director who could be exhilarating and exasperating, Hall ran two major theater companies at once and influenced actors such as Viola Davis. But after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, he retired to his family home in Texas. Hall was 95.

"South Dallas Stories: Fair Park Uprooted" just opened at the Music Hall in Fair Park.

Concerts, world premieres, a theatrical farewell and a trippy art experience that's taking over 30 rooms in a shopping mall: Get ready for the new year, y'all.

Last year, a Dallas restaurant-bar gained internet infamy for banning Mariah Carey's holiday fave, “All I Want for Christmas is You." Now the song's topping the charts again — for the fourth year in a row.

It's called "intergenerational trauma," a family's inheritance of cultural dislocation and lost children. A Dallas Native American artist was one of those children, and she has a plan for finding others.

Anne Windfohr Marion was a billionaire, a rancher, a philanthropist and an oil executive — with a zest for art.

Next week, Dallas' second oldest stage company opens its 60th season. But it's hardly preparing for retirement.

A new one-man, stage drama answers those questions. It brings back to life one of the biggest forces in creating modern-day Fort Worth.

Fort Worth has joined a national effort to bring historic commercial areas back to life.