Classical Theatre Company’s 24/25 Season Digs into Their Niche
After years of turbulent flux, Classical Theatre Company has settled into a new routine.
Emily Hynds
Texas Studio: Molly Searcy Looks for the Ease in Acting
Molly Searcy, voice actor and member of the Dallas Theater Center’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company, had the performance bug early.
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.
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.
Boredom, Chaos, and Intimacy from Austin Playwright Sam Mayer
Austin-based playwright Sam Mayer is in that fray, questioning what success in the theater means, both for him and for the art form more generally.
Texas Studio: Playwright Crystal Jackson Stays Off the Main Road
Austin-based Crystal Jackson took her time getting around to playwriting. Even in the thick of it, she once thought she might be done for good.
Texas Studio: Alli Villines wants you to Feel Whatever You Feel
Alli Villines’s grandmother prophesied at her birth that she would be a singer, a divine foretelling that has proven true.
Jenelle Esparza Weaves Ancestral History at Women & Their Work
Jenelle Esparza’s weavings reflect her South Texas lineage, but also ask what that history might look like from the perspective of the landscape.
Matt Manalo asks ‘Is Liberation Attainable?’
Manalo’s family immigrated to the United States from the Philippines when he was nineteen, sparking what would become one of the major driving questions - what does ‘home’ mean?
Afsaneh Aayani Manifests ‘Theater For All’
If you saw Innominate by Afsaneh Aayani at Catastrophic Theatre, you might think you know who Aayani is. You would be right and wrong at the same time.
Texas Studio: Katy Heinlein
Sculptor Katy Heinlein’s studio is quiet, cozy, exploding with texture and color, and perhaps most important of all, stable.
Texas Studio: Matt Messinger
Houston artist Matt Messinger is a collector—of art yes, but also of ephemera, which leaks and injects itself into his work.