Starry Rise: Van Gogh at MFAH
To tell the true story of a life, we sometimes have to see anew the places we wandered and how those explorations changed us.
Tarra Gaines
Impossible Art: CounterCurrent Festival Spreads Out over Houston
Since 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts’ CounterCurrent Festival has always been almost impossible to define.
The Company Model on Texas Stages
The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast at TUTS
Twenty-five years ago, to the month, Theatre Under the Stars world-premiered Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in its pre-Broadway run and introduced this independent Belle to the stage. As a grand holiday offering (through Dec. 23), TUTS now revives the show for its 50th anniversary season.
REVIEW: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at 4th Wall Theatre
The great grand dame of hate-becomes-love stories Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice always held a current of social commentary beneath the surface of the glorious romance.
Life, Death and Healing: Hyde Park Theatre Partners with Catastrophic Theatre for Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey
In Obie Award-winning playwright Will Eno’s latest work, Wakey, Wakey, the endearingly befuddled Guy takes the audience along on a somewhat bumbling memorial journey through his life on the way to his death.
Directing in Texas: Matt Hune
When Matt Hune, artistic director of Houston’s Rec Room Arts, talks about his role as a theater director, he speaks of perspective, space, color and texture, words that seem more the purview of the visual artist than the vocabulary of someone audiences might imagine as that mysterious person behind the scenes bossing about all the actors.
Boundless Quantum and Galactic Space: ‘The Demon in the Diagram’ at the Moody Center
Millennia before mapping the universe became the purview of the scientist, the first artists scratched marks, lines and shapes onto cave walls, perhaps to make some sense of the world around them through pictorial representation.
REVIEW: ‘Swimming While Drowning’ at Stages
Ah, young love, that time in life when two star-crossed lovers might feel they exist in a world to themselves or the whole world is out to pull them asunder.
Between Two Elizabeths: British Royal Portraits at the MFAH
Recounted in song, plays, novels, films and Lifetime television movies, the saga of the rise and fall of generations of British royals has fascinated commoners for centuries.
Friendship, Rivalries and Lots of Ale: ‘Book of Will’ at Main Street Theater
Will Shakspere, actor, theater owner and writer is dead; long live–for 400 years–William Shakespeare.
The Good Fight: ‘Exit Strategy’ at Rec Room
When should we fight the good fight? When do we surrender to survive another day, and when should we give up and put on the comfortable armor of cynicism?