Arts & Culture Texas

Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season

Steven Brown·July 23, 2022

Ars Lyrica is picking up right where it left off. After closing last season with the poignant finish of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Houston’s baroque ensemble will launch its 2022-23 season with another helping of the melancholy, gently dissonant harmony that bears Purcell’s trademark.

Houston Music

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Sherry Cheng·June 13, 2022

In Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s mind, a quintessential DACAMERA season must have a balance of beloved masterpieces performed by great musicians from the classical world, and fantastic jazz of varying styles that reflect the ever-widening genre.

Houston Music

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Sherry Cheng·May 26, 2022

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, his only true opera, is an indisputable masterpiece and one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Dallas Opera Celebrates 65 Years

Steven Brown·May 19, 2022

To help make the 65th-anniversary season special, the company is staging four operas that it hasn’t produced in more than a decade, Derrer says, and it will showcase each in a production that’s new to Dallas audiences.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

Tarra Gaines·May 6, 2022

During the height of the streamed performing arts portion of the pandemic, I thought a lot about the difference between being a viewer and an audience member.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Theater

Texas on Stage at the McNay

Steven Brown·May 2, 2022

The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts contains artifacts dating back centuries, and its exhibitions sometimes revel in that broad historical panorama. But The Great Stage of Texas, running through July 24 at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—the collection’s home—could hardly be more contemporary.

Art Dance Music San Antonio Theater

A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

If the 2021-2022 theater season was about getting back on stage for many Texas performing arts companies, Theatre Under The Star’s 2022-2023 season might be best described as a season ready to take that big breath, then sing, dance and celebrate life renewed.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

Society for the Performing Arts is now Performing Arts Houston, but Meg Booth, chief executive officer, makes it clear that their mission to bring the world of music, dance, theater as well as cultural speakers to the city is still fundamental to who they are after 50 years.

Dance Houston Music Theater

ROCO at 18: A Season to be Grateful

Sherry Cheng·April 29, 2022

ROCO is everywhere. In its 18th season, this industry-changing chamber orchestra from Houston has reached well beyond the walls of the traditional concert space, laying down a vibrant and diverse soundtrack for an entire city.

Houston Music

Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season

Sherry Cheng·March 21, 2022

Describing herself as “relentlessly optimistic,” Khori Dastoor officially took over the reins as Houston Grand Opera (HGO)’s General Director and CEO in January 2022, becoming the first woman to lead the prestigious company in its 67-year history.

Houston Music Theater

Branching Out: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Offers Audiences New Listening Experiences

Steven Brown·March 10, 2022

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been fortunate. Except for recasting a few concert programs in January after a few cases of omicron cropped up among its musicians—who recovered—it has been able to operate “full go-ahead” this season as planned, executive director Kim Noltemy says.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

The Third Time’s the Charm: Dance Salad Determined to Celebrate its 25th Year in Houston

Nichelle Suzanne·March 10, 2022

“This is our third year trying to do our 25th year,” says Houston’s unofficial dance ambassador Nancy Henderek, whose annual springtime Dance Salad Festival (for reasons you can probably guess) took an unexpected hiatus in 2020 and again in 2021.

Dance Houston Music

Art

Sacred and Secular Merge at MFAH’s new Art of the Islamic Worlds Galleries

A Kind of Dream: Mark di Suvero at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Strength, understanding and resiliency: Karin Broker at the Art Museum of South Texas

Music

Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel

Cliburn contest helps aspiring pianists envision their future

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Dance

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Discovering the Dallas Arts District

A Narrative Signature: International Choreographer Cathy Marston Prioritizes Storytelling in her Interpretation of a Southern Classic

Theater

Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Film

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Moving Bodies, Moving Cameras: Frame x Frame Expands to Three Locations

Texas Studio: Sarah Fox’s Bad Bunny Gets Real

Books

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World

Music

Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Dallas Opera Celebrates 65 Years

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

Texas on Stage at the McNay

A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

ROCO at 18: A Season to be Grateful

Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season

Branching Out: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Offers Audiences New Listening Experiences

The Third Time’s the Charm: Dance Salad Determined to Celebrate its 25th Year in Houston