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.
Tarra Gaines
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.
Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project
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.
A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage
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.
Moody Center for the Arts Celebrates Five Years of Ideas, Dialogue and Innovation
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.
The Underworld on Stage: ‘Hadestown’ Tours Texas
Even once the show goes on, the director’s work is still not done. This has become especially true for the Tony winning director of Hadestown, Rachel Chavkin.
The Alley Theatre at 75
Houston’s Alley Theatre, one of the oldest and largest companies in Texas, celebrates its 75th anniversary with a beautiful monster of a season.
A Different Light: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer’ at the MFAH
Now the world will also view O’Keeffe in a different light and see a trove of her recently discovered photographic art in the MFAH exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer, running through Jan. 22.
It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns
“It’s Houston. Literally every single thing is happening, including filmmaking. Everything is happening in Houston.”
Dancing on a Lake and Other Pandemic Miracles
If 2020 into 2021 was the ultimate annus horribilis, the year really became the worst of times for that most ephemeral and impermanent of arts, live performance.