Fresh Revivals & New Stories: Broadway Across Texas
While the 2023-2024 Broadway touring season still has big productions left for Texas cities, we’ve also entered our favorite time of year, season announcement season.
Theater
Unexpected Interactions: Texas Performing Arts offers a revamp of the audience experience
Arts lovers headed to performances know the drill: Enter the theater, settle into your seat and wait for the house lights to go down. Musicians, actors or dancers materialize onstage, and your adventure begins.
A Lifelong Exploration: Director Sasha Maya Ada navigates a new path for DFW theater
Listen to how she says “pecans,” and you’ll know immediately that Sasha Maya Ada is not a native Texan.
In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors
In the United States, the Alley Theatre is the last theater standing with a year-round, full-time, salaried resident acting company and that makes all the difference when building a new season.
Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together
Rec Room Art’s Artistic Director Matt Hune says that building a theater season is like creating an album: each play makes up a story that flows through the year.
Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women
The Bishop Arts neighborhood of Dallas has enjoyed a surge in popularity these past few years, but many of its diners, drinkers, and shoppers probably aren’t aware that just a mile away sits the area’s namesake theater company.
Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20
The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.
Amazing, Fabulous, Spectacular: New Works Light Up Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage in 2024
It’s likely you’ve never heard of any of the titles in Amphibian Stage’s 2024 season, and that’s exactly how Kathleen Culebro wants it.
Old Friends, New Stories: Familiar faces meet provocative premieres in Uptown Players’ 2024 season
Since its founding in 2001, Uptown Players has put a heavy emphasis on relationships—not only with its patrons, the majority of whom identify as LGBTQ+, but also with its performers, musicians, crew, artistic and administrative staff, and playwrights and composers.
TX Studio: Callina Anderson finds her balance
Callina Anderson is a Houston-based actor who recently wrapped On the Exhale at Unity Theatre in Brenham.
Changing My Major: SMU’s newly endowed musical theater program is being built by a Dallas legend
Since 1969, Southern Methodist University has been offering performing arts degrees in theater, music, and dance through undergraduate tracks in the Meadows School of the Arts.
Social Issues, Puppets, Yellow Swings and Big Changes: The 2023 Wrap Up
We are back for our epic annual public chit chat, a tiny snapshot of the thousand dishy emails that fly across the inter tubes discussing what we just saw, missed, didn’t understand or flat out loved.