Arts & Culture Texas

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.

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A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage

Tarra Gaines·January 9, 2022

Flash forward deep into the pandemic and the height of streaming theater while lying on a couch, I thought a lot about live, in-person stage chemistry.

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Make It So: Texas Biennial Centers and Connects Visionary Artists

Nancy Zastudil·October 6, 2021

From slabs on the scene to teeter-totters at the border, and all manner of complexity in between, what happens in Texas does anything but stay put.

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The Music Plays On: Texas Orchestras Pivot in 2021

Steven Brown·January 8, 2021

The Fort Worth Symphony will spotlight Antonín Dvořák’s melodious but unfamiliar Serenade in E major on Jan. 8-10. The same weekend, Dallas Symphony performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in A-flat--a supersized version of the composer’s Quartet No. 10--will show how intense a string ensemble can be. The Houston Symphony will partner with onetime prodigy, now mature artist Midori in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Jan. 15-17.

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Open Air Performance in Texas

Tarra Gaines·November 16, 2020

As a pandemic spring spun into summer, it seemed all the performing arts world became a virtual stage and all the men and women remote players.

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Walking on the Edge: Artistic Directors Define Risk

Tarra Gaines·November 14, 2019

“You can’t fly if you have never left the ground,” says Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre cofounder, Kim Tobin-Lehl, when thinking about taking artistic risks.

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A State of Their Own: Latinx Playwrights Call Texas Home

Trevor Boffone·July 31, 2019

Texas is home to a growing cohort of Latinx playwrights working in all parts of the state who have chosen to remain here despite the unique challenges that they face as artists of color in the Lone Star State.

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The Company Model on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 11, 2019

The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.

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Life, Death and Healing: Hyde Park Theatre Partners with Catastrophic Theatre for Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey

Tarra Gaines·November 13, 2018

In Obie Award-winning playwright Will Eno’s latest work, Wakey, Wakey, the endearingly befuddled Guy takes the audience along on a somewhat bumbling memorial journey through his life on the way to his death.

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Communication, context, and consent: Why more Texas theaters are hiring intimacy directors

Lindsey Wilson·October 8, 2018

As more instances of sexual harassment and abuse of power are being uncovered, especially in the theatrical community, more companies are realizing they need an important addition to their creative team: an intimacy director.

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The Fest Test: The Impact of Dance Festivals on Texas Dance

Nichelle Suzanne·September 20, 2018

Dance audiences worldwide have long come together for festivals large and small to engage with the art form.

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The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 21, 2018

Since we (Nancy Wozny & Tarra Gaines) have an ongoing conversation on what defines an immersive performance, we decided to share some of our adventures and to make some of our endless road trip banter public.

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