Arts & Culture Texas

Classics and New Shows: A Lively New Season for Theatre Under The Stars

Tarra Gaines·April 6, 2023

“You’ve just got to keep moving,” says Theatre Under The Stars artistic director, Dan Knechtges, when I asked him what lessons he’s learned about programming the company through several years of theater under crisis.

Houston Theater

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

Emily Hynds·March 22, 2023

Alli Villines’s grandmother prophesied at her birth that she would be a singer, a divine foretelling that has proven true.

Houston Music Texas Studio Theater

100 Years of Magic at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Sherry Cheng·March 17, 2023

Houstonians have experienced the magic of Miller Outdoor Theatre for 100 years now. What is it about this place that tugs on the heart strings, and turns shared moments into lasting memories?

Dance Houston Music Theater

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Tarra Gaines·February 2, 2023

Now as spring blooms, we find Austin’s Fusebox, the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival, carrying the trend into 2023 with five days (April 12-16) filled with its usual innovative and experimental work, but also a particularly playful and fun lineup.

Austin Dance Music Theater

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Tarra Gaines·February 1, 2023

A longed-for royal baby, a series of blessings and curses from a good-to-evil spectrum of fairies, a bit of a prick, a bead of blood then a century of sleep until a spell-breaking kiss brings the great awakening, happily ever after.

Dance Theater

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·January 10, 2023

In summer 2022, a little-musical-that-could defied the odds in Dallas. Produced as an independent entity, Cabaret at Arts Mission Oak Cliff had no established theater company backing it, no built-in subscriber base, and no big names attached.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’

Steven Brown·December 13, 2022

For all the glories of Carmen, La Boheme, Aida and the like, opera companies sometimes want to tackle a work that’s out-of-the-ordinary: Call it a statement opera. The urge came upon The Dallas Opera before the pandemic.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up

Nancy Wozny·December 8, 2022

It’s been way too long since I sat around the virtual table with our fabulous theater writers Lindsey Wilson and Tarra Gaines to chat about all things performing arts in Houston, Dallas and beyond.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Online Exclusives Theater

Home is where the art is: Uptown Players debuts a new Dallas space for 2023 season

Lindsey Wilson·December 5, 2022

Don’t worry, Uptown Players is still in Uptown—at least part of the time.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Wreckers Away! A Thrilling, Compelling HGO Production Does Justice to a Masterpiece

Sherry Cheng·October 31, 2022

It was a revelatory night at the Houston Grand Opera for the opening of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers.

Houston Music Theater

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Tarra Gaines·October 21, 2022

Radical visions—that’s what lead programmer, Jazmyne Moreno, says we should look for at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival (Nov. 10-16).

Film Houston Music Theater

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

Nancy Wozny·October 19, 2022

City Council Meeting was developed by Aaron Landsman amd Mallory Catlett, with design by Jim Findlay, and developed (in part) during a residency at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

Books Houston Theater

Art

Legendary Threads: Anni Albers at the Blanton

A Cosmos of Chaos and Order: Leonardo Drew at the Carter

Texas Studio: Michelle Cortez Gonzales in Full Bloom

Music

Excellence & Wisdom: Orpheus Chamber Singers offers a living museum of choral music

From Storms to Sunshine: Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs works by Saint-Saëns, Xi Wang and Sophia Jani

No Barriers: Performing Arts Houston’s New Now Series Nurtures Houston Artists

Dance

No Barriers: Performing Arts Houston’s New Now Series Nurtures Houston Artists

Labor in Motion: Laura Gutierrez at DiverseWorks

In the Space Between: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project continues to tell Dallas’ unique stories

Theater

Embracing the Theatrical in Non-Theatrical Spaces: Kitchen Dog Theater makes all of Dallas its stage

In the Space Between: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project continues to tell Dallas’ unique stories

Bucking the Trend: While other arts organizations are barely surviving, Fort Worth’s Stage West is thriving

Film

Houston Cinema Arts Festival Focuses on Texas, the Arts and Home

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

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

Books

Reading Together Again: Inprint Houston’s New Season Dazzles with Big Name Writers

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

Society for the Performing Arts Goes Digital

Theater

Classics and New Shows: A Lively New Season for Theatre Under The Stars

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

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’

Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up

Home is where the art is: Uptown Players debuts a new Dallas space for 2023 season

Wreckers Away! A Thrilling, Compelling HGO Production Does Justice to a Masterpiece

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

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