Many Mini-Milestones for The Contemporary Austin
Reconfigured Museum’s First Months Yield Signs of Progress IMAGE: Orly Genger, Conceptual rendering for Current, 2014, which...
Two Swans & a Beauty
Texas Ballet companies conclude their seasons with vintage warhorses: Swan Lake, at Texas Ballet Theater, May 30-June 1, and Houston Ballet, June 5-15; and The Sleeping Beauty, at Ballet Austin, May 9-11.
Moving Motion
Los Angeles filmmaker and performer Wu Tsang has started a year-long project, commissioned by DiverseWorks with the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Don’t Cry for Her
Evita, the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera that took audiences by storm when it debuted in London in 1978, is making its way through Texas
Great and/or Mediocre Houston and/or Texas Art of the Past and/or Present in Houston Museums Now!
That’s the muddled message coming out of Randy Tibbits’s complaint about what he sees as a too-low presence...
Houston Palestine Film Festival Going Strong in its Eighth Season
A grassroots, art-based film festival celebrating Palestinian cinema sounds intriguing, doesn’t it?
Acting in Texas: Julienne Greer at Circle Theatre
Julienne Greer takes on the role of Juliana Smithton in Circle Theatre’s production of Sharr White's The Other Place, May 1-24.
Musings on Ballet’s Famous Faun
I'm thrilled to see Nancy Buirski's film Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil LeCercq screening at the MFAH May 24- June 1.
War Horse Stops in Houston and Austin
It goes without saying that teamwork is important for the puppeteers who operate Joey, the larger-than-life star of War Horse.
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
The show is now on its fourth national tour, the original Broadway creative team has been reunited to rejuvenate the production, and it shows beautifully on stage at the AT&T Performing Arts Center as part of the Lexus Broadway Series through April 27.
L’État, C’est Moi, Y’all
There was no public vernissage where art-fanboys might tip hats to a curator and the new artist on the scene, Dubya, while getting tipsy from champagne.