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Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center

Lindsey Wilson·January 19, 2026

Since its founding in 1959, Dallas Theater Center has been led by only five artistic directors: Paul Baker, Adrian Hall, Ken Bryant, Richard Hamburger, and Kevin Moriarty. Now the Tony Award-winning regional theater can add one more name to the list: Jaime Castañeda, who officially assumes the position in July 2026.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Nancy Wozny·December 26, 2025

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 in 2025.

Dance Music Theater

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

ADAM CASTAÑEDA·December 11, 2025

Time is a precious commodity, and as we move further away from the standstill of the pandemic years, many of us are finding that we have far less than we would like.

Dance Houston

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

ADAM CASTAÑEDA·December 11, 2025

Making dances can be an unrelenting cycle of creative ideation, talent management, and administrative multitasking; finding a platform to show the work once it is complete can be just as unforgiving.

Dance Waco

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·December 11, 2025

Stories first live in the body. They prickle across the skin as goosebumps, catch in the throat as a gasp, and move along a family line, changing slightly with each retelling. A good story lingers, reshaping memory and place so that a river, a vacant lot, or a patch of brush never feels quite the same again.

San Antonio Visual Art

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Steven Brown·December 11, 2025

Frank—who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the 1990s—will return to Houston for the world premiere of Frida’s Dreams, a multimedia spinoff of El último sueño.

Houston Music

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Lindsey Wilson·December 11, 2025

In 1985, Jeff Hurst and Cora Cardona founded Teatro Dallas, the city’s first Latinx stage company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Lindsey Wilson·December 11, 2025

When visitors step into New Horizons: The Western Landscape at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, they won’t find sagebrush clichés, cowboys in silhouette, or sweeping vistas painted to satisfy nostalgia.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Brett Grega·December 10, 2025

The first stitch in Marilyn Henrion’s journey to becoming an acclaimed textile artist began in two rooms on New York’s Lower East Side where she lived alongside her parents and seven siblings.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Image and Identity: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston explores the work and influence of Frida Kahlo

Tarra Gaines·December 10, 2025

From a self-portrait worth $55 million to hand-painted shoes on Etsy, from egg cups to a biographical ballet and lookalike festivals across the globe, very few artists have ever inspired and driven the world’s imagination like Frida Kahlo.

Houston Visual Art

Dream Worlds: The Dallas Museum of Art takes a deeper look at ‘International Surrealism’

Kendall Morgan·December 10, 2025

On a November night in Paris in 1925, a collective of outlier artists launched a movement intent on tapping into unconscious creativity. A century later, surrealism’s unsettling imagery and thought-provoking themes still seem as timely as the years it was introduced.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·November 15, 2025

In the House of Pikachu, Memory Speaks in Color.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

What the Eye Can’t Settle: Rubén Guerrero at the Meadows Museum

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

An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

Theater

The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home

Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return

Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up

Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center

Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up

Dancing in Between the Spaces of Life: Karen Stokes Premieres ‘4 Corners’ at the Match

Big and Bold: Waco’s {254}DANCEFEST Expands its Reach

The Stories We Carry: Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads at the McNay Art Museum

Dreaming Frida: Brooklyn Rider premieres a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank at DACAMERA

All The World’s Their Stage: Teatro Dallas celebrates 40 years

Head West: Contemporary artists reimagine the American West at the Amon Carter

Stitched Across Time: Marilyn Henrion brings a lifetime of textile works to the Irving Arts Center

Image and Identity: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston explores the work and influence of Frida Kahlo

Dream Worlds: The Dallas Museum of Art takes a deeper look at ‘International Surrealism’

From Pop to Pokémon: The House of Pikachu at Asia Society Texas Center