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A Season Six Celebration: A Visit with Bruce Wood Dance Project’s Kimi Nikaidoh

Nancy Wozny·May 23, 2016

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.

Dance

Bare Bones Shaw: Bedlam Comes to Stark Naked

Tarra Gaines·May 23, 2016

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.

Theater

Be in the Moment: Matthew Ronay at the Blaffer

Laura August·May 22, 2016

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

Laura August·May 22, 2016

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.

Houston Visual Art

Digital Detectives Probe a Dystopian Future in The Nether at the Alley

Tarra Gaines·May 19, 2016

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.

Theater

Old Yet New: Ars Lyrica’s Fresh Take on Vivaldi and Next Season’s News

Steven Brown·May 19, 2016

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

Divya Murthy·May 13, 2016

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.

Visual Art

Show Up: Richard Thompson

Laurie James·May 9, 2016

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Show Up

Young Sons

Alaena Hostetter·May 9, 2016

Two Artists create a Shared Identity

Visual Art

A Deafening Silence

Jennifer Smart·May 9, 2016

The Great God Pan is Dead at Second Thought Theatre

Theater

Ten Not So Tiny Dances at CounterCurrent 2016

Nancy Wozny·May 9, 2016

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center opened its third CounterCurrent's with Ten Tiny Dances on April 12, 2016.

Dance Houston

Looking for Connection: We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art at Asia Society

Laura August·May 9, 2016

A long excerpt of a diary is pinned to the wall in the Asia Society Texas Center's current exhibition,We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, on view through July 3.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

The Haas Brothers: Cuteness as a Trojan Horse, and an Irreverent Austin Homecoming at the Blanton

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Paper, Skin, Shadow: Exploring Fragility at the Menil Drawing Institute

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Embracing the New: Texas Performing Arts’ New Season

Aimed Dance Fest Ignites Contemporary Dance in Southeast Texas

A Wonderland Awaits: Houston Ballet’s new season offers something for every ballet lover

Music

The Finale and Future: Austin Symphony Orchestra’s Peter Bay Passes the Baton

Glorious Sound: Threads of History Come to Life in Harmonia Stellarum Houston’s Season Five

Cor Mundi: Music of the Spirit in the Heart of the World

Theater

The Drama Map: Trends, Patterns and Premieres on Texas Stages

Embracing the New: Texas Performing Arts’ New Season

Timeless and Immediate: For 2026-27, Stage West plans a season where audiences feel safe to be provoked

A Season Six Celebration: A Visit with Bruce Wood Dance Project’s Kimi Nikaidoh

Bare Bones Shaw: Bedlam Comes to Stark Naked

Be in the Moment: Matthew Ronay at the Blaffer

Project Row Houses: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators

Digital Detectives Probe a Dystopian Future in The Nether at the Alley

Old Yet New: Ars Lyrica’s Fresh Take on Vivaldi and Next Season’s News

Waves of Thinking: Exploring Sound with Abinadi Meza and Lina Dib

Show Up: Richard Thompson

Young Sons

A Deafening Silence

Ten Not So Tiny Dances at CounterCurrent 2016

Looking for Connection: We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art at Asia Society