Acting in Texas: Joel F. Grothe
Joel F. Grothe holds court as Thomas Cromwell in Main Street Theater's production of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, through Dec. 18.
Dancing Bodies Wake Up Space: Third Coast Dance Film Festival at Aurora Picture Show
I'm convinced that most spaces can be improved by the presence of a few dancing bodies.
The Becomer: Early Monet at the Kimbell
Monet: The Early Years at the Kimbell Art Museum kicks off with a startling contrast between Claude Monet’s earliest exhibited work—View Near Rouelles, a crisp, placid, highly finished 1858 landscape—and Farmyard in Normandy (1863), which is striking for what exhibition curator George T. M. Shackelford notes is “a surface that, in its final form, appears to be still in progress.”
Angels in Houston: It’s A Wonderful Life at HGO
It's the holiday season, which means we get all crazy about making memories with our family and friends. Perhaps it's this insatiable urge that drives us to the same shows over and over.
All About the Music: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Dallas Opera
A scene from The Dallas Opera’s Eugene Onegin. Credit: Karen Almond/Dallas Opera The piano is omnipresent. From the...
Breaking the Hierarchy: KAWS at the Modern
Brian Donnelly—better known as KAWS—has created art that is lowbrow, highbrow, commercial, and fine.
Lines, Lots of Lines: Degas at the MFAH
Degas: A New Vision will end its only U.S. presentation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Jan. 16, meaning its departure will roughly coincide with the fifth anniversary of director Gary Tinterow’s arrival from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he spent the bulk of an impressive curatorial career.
WOWZA: Funnyman at Circle Theatre Scratches Below Comedy’s Surface
The title, Funnyman, is a little misleading. Sure, this tightly-structured work by Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham has its chortles, but at heart it’s a story about the seriousness of comedy, and those who create it.
The ACTX Top Ten: November 2016
Our top ten picks for arts + culture events happening across Texas in November 2016.
Space Commander: Frances Bagley Fills Kirk Hopper Fine Art to the Brim
“I’m really interested in space,” says Frances Bagley, as we walk through her east Dallas studio.
Clara’s Big Dream: Houston Ballet’s New Nutcracker
Snow, a Sugar Plum Fairy and a gigantic Christmas Tree are three things we all expect from any production of The Nutcracker.