Max John Rosenfield Jr., was amusement critic for the Dallas Morning News for 41 years . It can be 

argued that John Rosenfield did more for the arts in Dallas than any other person during a long 

reign in which he was known as Cultural Pontiff of 

the Southwest.

In Mr. Rosenfield's  column, The Passing  Show, he wrote about the lively arts, theater, music, ballet and

movies with erudition and grace.

But his contribution to the performing arts in the 

Southwest did not stop there. He put people with 

talent in touch with people with money and watched the results with a certain pride.

Through his influence, shrewdly exercised, he 

guided his city's development in the arts and 

popular amusements. By the time he retired, 

Dallas was recognized throughout the music and 

theater world for its opera, symphony and 

innovative stage productions. Behind every 

cultural achievement, the support and guidance of Rosenfield

could be felt.

 Patrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at University of Dallas where, with Judy his wife, he taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he has directed plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theatre programs as University of Washington, Denver's National Theatre Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and SouthernMethodist University.

Jerome Weeks was the arts producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA for 15 years. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the theater critic for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s book columnist for ten years after that. He blogged as book/daddy for Artsjournal, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, LosAngeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre  magazine.