A Lonely Beauty: ‘The Children’ at the Rec Room
Two women, old friends but decades absent from each other, have tea in an isolated British seaside cottage.
Tarra Gaines
Bringing Your Heart to a Role: Dear Evan Hansen Tours Texas
Coming of Broadway age in the shadow of the Hamilton juggernaut, Dear Evan Hansen, the seemingly unassuming musical about an unpopular high school kid with social anxiety, managed to turn its misfit story into a multiple Tony® Award winner.
Cowboys, Astronauts and Art: Jessica Green leads HCAF into the Future
When New York native Jessica Green took the position of artistic director of Houston Cinema Arts Festival this year, she decided the best way to program the sprawling arts-based film festival for Houston was to let this enigma of a city become her muse.
Defying the art Establishment: The Pre-Raphaelites at San Antonio Museum of Art
Now a new exhibition, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, brings their masterworks and stories to the San Antonio Museum of Art (Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020).
Sound, Fury and Bears: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the Alley
Even in a canon filled with political advising witches, fairy marriage wars and revenge seeking ghosts, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale still stands–statuesque–as an odd chimera of a play.
Heart and Mind Synchronicity: ‘The Hard Problem’ at MST
In one of his most recent works, The Hard Problem, getting its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (through Oct. 6), Stoppard goes in heavy on the head, rather literally as the play follows scientists looking into questions of how the brain creates the mind, how we are conscious of our own consciousness.
Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’
The problem with bringing a groundbreaking work of art into the world is that sometimes it alters the landscape so much that when we revisit it we might forget that such a wonder didn’t always exist.
Novels, Poems, Memoirs!: Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Addresses Our Complicated World
For the performing arts lover, one of the annual small joys in life can come from a favorite dance, theater or music organization revealing their next season.
All the World’s a Murder Train: Agatha Christie at the Alley
Theater critic true confession: I love spoilers.
Reimagining Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes: ‘Immortal Longings’ at the ZACH
Impresario, the promoter, financier, artistic director and all round driving visionary of a performing arts company or enterprise, is not a title bestowed onto individuals much anymore.
Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH
In 2013 with James Turrell: The Light Inside, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston began a unique summer precedent, presenting an immersive contemporary art exhibition and inviting the public to beat the heat, not merely to view but to journey inside the art.
Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages
Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!