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Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place

Lindsey Wilson·January 30, 2025

Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Theater

Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·January 30, 2025

When an artist allows it, their practice can become all-encompassing, blurring the lines between practice, spirit, and the world around them.

Houston Visual Art

An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art

Lindsey Wilson·January 22, 2025

Her name was synonymous with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and other iconic Pop artists of the 1960s. But few today remember Marisol Escobar or her ahead-of-its-time art, which provocatively explored femininity and women’s role in society.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Donna Tennant·January 22, 2025

In 1981, artist Du Chau and his family left Vietnam, emigrating to Dallas.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers

Tara Munjee·January 9, 2025

Texas Ballet Theater’s artistic director Tim O’Keefe has long wanted to present women choreographers.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil·January 9, 2025

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row Visual Art

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Nancy Wozny·December 31, 2024

It’s that time of year again, when we gather on the page to consider all the shows that we have seen, what stood out, who wowed us, and more.

Dance Music Theater

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Amy Bishop·December 18, 2024

There are certain moments in life that we look back upon and realize how pivotal they were. For Héctor Guzmán, it happened one evening in his early 20s after giving a performance of an organ concerto.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Texas Studio

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

James Russell·December 17, 2024

Tavares Strachan wants to tell the story of the whole world.

Austin Visual Art

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

Tarra Gaines·December 17, 2024

Several years ago on a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, I visited my first Meow Wolf project.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center

Lindsey Wilson·December 15, 2024

We may be made of star stuff, according to Carl Sagan, but the way Jessica Kreutter sees it we are all made of dirt.

Houston Visual Art

Abstraction, Power, and Self: Joe Overstreet at the MENIL

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·December 15, 2024

People often consider abstraction to be the absence of content, the erasure of reference.

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

Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place

Diving Into Hidden Universes: Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at the MFAH

An Enigmatic Woman: Marisol’s Big Works Get an Even Bigger Retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas artist Du Chau Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

Beauty and Repulsion, Decay and Renewal: Jessica Kreutter at Galveston Arts Center

Abstraction, Power, and Self: Joe Overstreet at the MENIL