George Hamilton kissed a guy. OK, so a few other things happened before that in the Theatre Under the Stars production of La Cage aux Folles, starring the ever-bronzed Hamilton as Georges and Broadway veteran [...]
Station Museum Through May 13 I had difficulty grasping the curatorial remit of Artifactual Realities when I first learned of the exhibition. Billed as part of the Fotofest Biennial, the exhibition featuring the work of eleven artists purports to explore the Occupy movement and tenets of [...]
Review: Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 4-June 3 www.mfah.org You may know Lucio Fontana as the Italian painter whose slashed canvases echoed the devastation of World War II while violently activating the space behind the surface [...]
What does a choir of red crosses, pyrotechnics, and a wooden cart carrying chained heretics make? In Houston Grand Opera’s version of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos, it’s the turning point from a mediocre opera to a memorable one. Don [...]
The tragedy of Geatano Donizetti’s Mary Stuart, which had its Houston Grand Opera premiere last month, is that there’s so much drama, intrigue and passion in the real story behind rival queens Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots [...]
One of the city’s leading early music organizations, Mercury Baroque, has recently re-branded itself as Mercury-the Orchestra Redefined. Antoine Plante, conductor and artistic director, left Montreal to attend Rice University’s [...]
The Julia Ideson Library Renovation On December 5th, 2011 the City of Houston was given a beautiful jewel. After two years, 32 million dollars and a painstaking restoration [...]
Jonah Bokaer responds to Lee Ufan For some, dance’s ephemeral quality is a problem. For Jonah Bokaer, it’s a choreographic challenge that drives the engine of his work, and often poses questions of time, space, objects [...]
The giant roach car. The one that looks like a dragon. The one with all the fish and lobsters on it. These are just some of the rolling sculptures that cruise through Houston’s [...]