Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers

Tarra Gaines·October 2, 2022

In 1966, Gordon Parks, one of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century, set out to profile rising civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael for Life magazine.

Houston Visual Art

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Tarra Gaines·October 2, 2022

Booth hopes that the program will continue to prove Houston’s cultural excellence to go along with the city’s reputation as a home to global business innovators.

Houston Music Theater

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

When one of Houston’s most acclaimed poets, Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, set out to interview the city’s most legendary dancer, Lauren Anderson, she didn’t have a fully-formed creative objective.

Dance Houston Music Theater

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Music Theater

Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer

Tarra Gaines·July 18, 2022

Ten years ago, multidisciplinary artists and life partners Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin set out to trace a little-known bit of queer U.S history, an 1843 pleasure excursion by100 men from St Louis to the Wind River Range of Wyoming, likely the first example of North American gay eco/party tourism.

Houston Theater Visual Art

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

Tarra Gaines·May 6, 2022

During the height of the streamed performing arts portion of the pandemic, I thought a lot about the difference between being a viewer and an audience member.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Theater

A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

If the 2021-2022 theater season was about getting back on stage for many Texas performing arts companies, Theatre Under The Star’s 2022-2023 season might be best described as a season ready to take that big breath, then sing, dance and celebrate life renewed.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

Society for the Performing Arts is now Performing Arts Houston, but Meg Booth, chief executive officer, makes it clear that their mission to bring the world of music, dance, theater as well as cultural speakers to the city is still fundamental to who they are after 50 years.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Tarra Gaines·March 4, 2022

“Sonic partnerships.” If we had to describe the return of Austin’s Fusebox Festival in 2022 after its pandemic interruption, a plethora of sound performances and projects emerging from very unique partnerships leads to such a description.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project

Tarra Gaines·March 2, 2022

During an immersive dance production the line between audience and dancer can blur, but in an Annie Arnoult Open Dance Project performance that blurring expands from the space between dancer and audience to the line between theater and dance, history and story, viewing and autonomous experiencing.

Dance Houston Theater

A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage

Tarra Gaines·January 9, 2022

Flash forward deep into the pandemic and the height of streaming theater while lying on a couch, I thought a lot about live, in-person stage chemistry.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Lone Star Stories Theater

Moody Center for the Arts Celebrates Five Years of Ideas, Dialogue and Innovation

Tarra Gaines·January 7, 2022

If conversation can truly rise to an art form, Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts has proven a most creative ground for such an idea-exchanging medium.

Dance Houston Music Visual Art

Visual Art

Awe and Wonder: Space City at Asia Society Texas

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Culture Examined: Kimbell Art Museum offers a window into Dutch art in the Global Age

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology

Cheers to 15 Years: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas isn’t afraid to mix things up for 2025

Music

Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock’s Cultural Scene

Theater

A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Through An Inclusive Lens: Diversity and divas populate Uptown Players’ 2024-25 season

Tarra Gaines

Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project

A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage

Moody Center for the Arts Celebrates Five Years of Ideas, Dialogue and Innovation