From Russia With Love
Irina Chmyreva and Evgeny Berezner do not rush to answers. After each question, there is a moment when they allow themselves a glance, and perhaps a few words in Russian. They then launch into long, measured responses[...]
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A Day at the Museum
Talking about art is good for kids’ minds: it helps them think critically, develop strong reasoning skills, pay attention to nuance, and explore new ways of interpreting the world. But facilitating a rich discussion about an abstract [...]
Young Masters at DMA
Peruse the concourse of the Dallas Museum of Art this month and 53 pieces of artistic almost majesty pop off the high ceiling walls, begging passerby to take pause. Just who is or are the creative mind(s) [...]
Editor’s Remarks: March 2012
March is coming in a like a lion alright, buy and from Russia, viagra with the opening of...
Review: Cinderella
You know right away you are in fresh take on a classic fairy tale when you find out that Cinderella’s mother leads a group of zomberinas. Stanton Welch’s “Cinderella” is a triumph on several levels. From the first few notes of [...]
Review: “Dinner With Friends”
The company’s latest production, Donald Margulies’ 2000 Pulitzer-winning drama “Dinner With Friends,” marks the inaugural show of the new Studio 101 collective theater space [...]
Review: “A Separation”
“A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi’s latest moral drama, is a painful, compassionate, and powerful film. Farhadi dissolves the traditional notions of good and evil, and dives into the complicated and messy subjectivity of truth and morality [...]
Review: Gallim Dance
Lush, fierce dancing punctuated with thrilling bouts of kinetic wit characterized Gallim Dance’s performance as the highlight event of the Jewish Community Center’s annual winter festival known as Dance Month [...]
Review: River Oaks Chamber Orchestra
It is a rare occasion when Houston music lovers have the opportunity to enjoy a world premiere on an orchestral program. However, with its most recent concert featuring a brand new work by Paul English, the River Oaks [...]
Review: “The Coast of Utopia: Part 2, Shipwreck”
Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia” might be a harbinger of a new Theater of the Impractical. Three plays, topping out at a total of nine hours (give or take), “The Coast of Utopia” is a head-spinning swirl [...]
Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”
You have to hand it to the Catastrophic Theatre and director Jason Nodler. First they decide to tackle Samuel Beckett, one of the most unorthodox and absurdist writers of the 20th century. On top of this [...]
Review: Luminous
As the name suggests, “Luminous” is a show meant to shine light on, well, light. The seven contributing artists explore our often paradoxical associations with light — as an immaterial medium, a massless energy, a natural technology [...]