The Troublemakers: A young generation of Dallas theater makers pursue socio-political activism in their work
In Dallas, a generation of young playwrights is beginning to flex dramatic muscle in pursuit of social change, pushing their work past the impulse to create art for art’s sake.
A History in Fragments: Jazz on Film at MFAH
If there is a history of jazz, it’s forever incomplete, like archeologists finding fragments of text buried in the sand.
Waltzing with Ghosts: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Revises Giselle
On a sunny May afternoon, I found myself spellbound, watching Houston Ballet principals Yuriko Kajiya and Connor Walsh rehearse the very first meeting between Giselle and Albrecht.
A Season Six Celebration: A Visit with Bruce Wood Dance Project’s Kimi Nikaidoh
Bruce Wood Dance Project celebrates its sixth season with the Dallas premiere of Bruce Wood’s Anything Goes, along with world premieres by BWDP répétiteur/rehearsal director Joy Atkins Bollinger and NobleMotion co-artistic director Andy Noble, on June 17-18 at Dallas City Performance Hall.
Bare Bones Shaw: Bedlam Comes to Stark Naked
This summer, Houston drama-lovers need to brace themselves for bedlam— stark naked bedlam that is, as a local favorite theater brings to town one of Off Broadway’s hottest companies for a new vision of George Bernard Shaw’s classic Saint Joan, June 2-18 at Studio 101 in Spring Street Studios.
Be in the Moment: Matthew Ronay at the Blaffer
With two room-size installations and a selection of recent sculptures and reliefs, Matthew Ronay’s work ranges across botany and biology, anatomy and bodily systems, performance and sculpture, natural phenomena and psychology.
Project Row Houses: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators
In the current round of exhibitions at Project Row Houses (through June 19), there is an uneasy relationship between the visual material and the political work.
Digital Detectives Probe a Dystopian Future in The Nether at the Alley
A cop and suspect stare at each other from across a table in a stark and claustrophobic interrogation room. These first moments of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether at the Alley Theatre (Through May 29) reveal a setup we’ve seen before on a thousand police and procedural shows.
Old Yet New: Ars Lyrica’s Fresh Take on Vivaldi and Next Season’s News
Maybe you’ve heard Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons umpteen times. Nevertheless, Ars Lyrica wants to show you the Baroque warhorse in a fresh light.
Waves of Thinking: Exploring Sound with Abinadi Meza and Lina Dib
You can expect diversity in the range of art media produced in Texas. Residents often experience works grouped into visual art categories, such as painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, performance, and installations.
Show Up: Richard Thompson
Thompson’s upcoming exhibit with Fort Worth’s William Campbell Contemporary Art, Perfect: Part 1, May 19-June 18, is his 12th solo exhibit with the gallery.