05/30/2024
Be sure to sign up for our free Weekend Worthy newsletter, which arrives every Thursday in your in-box. Here's the latest intro from Arts and Culture Editor Marcheta Fornoff:
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting an artist named Basil Twist.
He’s a 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant award winner, has multiple Broadway credits, including “The Addams Family” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and helped design the ghoulish dementors in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.”
Funnily enough, when I first met Twist, he had a mop in hand and was cleaning Hip Pocket’s outdoor stage in the sweltering heat.
He is the creative force behind “A Twisty Intergalactic Spectacle,” which runs through June 2 at the open air theater off Silver Creek Road.
He and his husband, Kenneth Ard, another Broadway vet who stars in the production, have both worked on some of the world’s biggest stages. However, Twist told me that the opportunity to work in Fort Worth is one he cherishes not only as a longtime friend of the Simons family, who run the theater, but also as an artist.
“Being with these people, being in this space it’s so pure and real,” he said. “It’s really something to be treasured.”
Shoutout to all of the artists working hard to keep the funk in Funkytown.
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting an artist named Basil Twist. He’s a 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant award winner, has multiple Broadway credits, including “The Addams Family” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and helped design the ghoulish dementors in “Harry Potter an...
