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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After three decades reporting and reviewing North Texas culture, KERA's Jerome Weeks is retiring. So he sat down to talk about it. -
The book, 'The King of Diamonds,' searches for the elusive burglar who successfully robbed scores of wealthy Dallasites throughout the '60s -
The designer-director has worked with Broadway shows, operas and ballets, creating magical puppets out of anything, and that's tailor-made for the Hip Pocket's own style -
Will Evans, owner of Deep Vellum Press, sells more English translations of French books than any other publisher. Yet he doesn't speak French. -
Palestinian-American comic Marena Riyad started throwing comedy shows at her henna salon. Now she's founded a festival. -
Host Dulé Hill meets artists with unusual talents and deep commitments to their communities. This new episode visits Dallas, Denton and Houston. -
A public memorial service is Saturday for Washington, who owned The Dallas Weekly — and became a city-wide presence on business, civic and arts boards - helping to steer them toward racial equity. -
The city's park department takes over managing Old City Park in May - and it can't run a museum. So lampshades, cash registers and quilts will be up for purchase. -
Norton just had his play, "I Am Delivered't" presented by the DTC in February — his third play to premiere there. -
The composer has had commissions from the Dallas Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas new music ensemble, Voices of Change -
After ten years in England, the former Dallas Theater Center actor was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in "Guys and Dolls" -
It's an epic estate sale, but not without controversy. The city's park department is taking over and won't be maintaining the site as a history museum.
