Insider Notes
Texas and the open road go hand-in-hand for artists, who are as prone to roam as anybody. As...
Nancy Wozny
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
I arrived in my Hobby Center seat feeling listless, in a major mid-week slump, with a pesky bout of melancholy tinged with despair. Then, three fabulous and feathered divas descended from the ceiling bellowing “It's Raining Men” in the opening number of Theatre Under the Stars presentation of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and suddenly the world kicked it up a few notches.
Full Heart Dancing
IMAGE: Airs by Paul Taylor. Photos by Paul B. Goode. Paul Taylor Dance Company Returns to Houston Paul...
Pretend Prison
When Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black popped up on my Netflix menu, it just screamed A + N. Based on Piper Kerman's best selling book of the same name, the show chronicles the life of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), while she completes a 14-month prison sentence for a decade old crime.
A Decade of Dance
With the 2013-14 season, Stanton Welch moves into his 10th year as artistic director of Houston Ballet, one of the leading companies in the nation.
Sydney Skybetter and the Hacker Ethos
Sydney Skybetter is a keynote speaker at the 2013 Houston Arts Partners Conference, on Sept 13-14 at Houston...
Energy Dance
Forklift Dance Works founder Allison Orr, formerly fearful of heights, can now climb a power pole. Don't expect her to fix your electricity when it goes out, but she knows way more about energy than your average choreographer.
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts (Sep 2013)
Art show/Model Show is a multi-media, interactive, collaborative performance experiment from Kelli Bland, Meghan Adriel Dwyer, Michelle Keffer, Jorge Sermini and Elizabeth Doss based on their experiences as art models.
Performania
Musings & Mumblings on Time-Based Art IMAGE: Brock England and Nathan Jerkins in Hidden Room Theatre’s award-...
Insider Notes: September 2013
WELL, HELLO TEXAS. If you are from Houston or Dallas, I hope you are happy to find us back on the stands under the big Texas umbrella. If you are from elsewhere, you might be wondering…Arts + Culture who? Great question.
We started in Dallas/Fort Worth, expanded to Houston, and combined forces in quest of understanding what the rest of this great state was up to, art-wise. And here we are, in our inaugural issue of Arts + Culture Texas.
From Doomsday to Hell
Another Hilarious Romp from Tamarie Cooper Tamarie Cooper has been entertaining summer theater audiences for over a decade with her hilarious spectacles mixing dance, music and outrageous theater, sourcing her own life as material. She co-founded The Catastrophic Theatre with Jason Nodler in 2007. For ten years her “Tamalalia” series [...]
Myths and Hymns at HSPVA
Bit of a Stretch Returns for the Summer Never underestimate what a small group of dedicated performing arts...