Lone Star Art Stars: The Texas Medal of Arts Return
to celebrate that Texas art pride, every two years the Texas Cultural Trust puts on the ultimate star-gazing party, a.k.a. the Texas Medal of Arts Awards.
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Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022
Radical visions—that’s what lead programmer, Jazmyne Moreno, says we should look for at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival (Nov. 10-16).
Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater
Back in pre-pandemic 2020, B. Moore Dance company founder Bridget Moore signed on as choreographer for the Second Thought Theatre’s production of Lynn Nottage’s play Mlima's Tale.
Gordon Parks at the MFAH: Behind-the-lens insights into the mind of one of America’s most visionary photographers
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.
The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists
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.
Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage
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.
A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages
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.
Ambiguous places of beauty and sadness: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin’s Wayfinding at the Blaffer
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.
Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater
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.
A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision
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.
Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season
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.
Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin
“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.