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In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors

Tarra Gaines·March 21, 2024

In the United States, the Alley Theatre is the last theater standing with a year-round, full-time, salaried resident acting company and that makes all the difference when building a new season.

Houston Theater

Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together

Emily Hynds·March 21, 2024

Rec Room Art’s Artistic Director Matt Hune says that building a theater season is like creating an album: each play makes up a story that flows through the year.

Houston Theater

Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women

Lindsey Wilson·March 21, 2024

The Bishop Arts neighborhood of Dallas has enjoyed a surge in popularity these past few years, but many of its diners, drinkers, and shoppers probably aren’t aware that just a mile away sits the area’s namesake theater company.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Taking Flight: Zeke Williams and his feathered friends nest at Galveston Arts Center

Lindsey Wilson·March 21, 2024

Dallas-based artist Zeke Williams is addicted to making work.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Classical Gems: Dallas Opera will stage landmark works for its first time

Steven Brown·March 9, 2024

The Dallas Opera will treat its audiences next season to two of opera’s all-time favorites, but the real news belongs to the season’s other two slots: They’ll hold a pair of landmark works the company has never staged.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Love, Time & Aging: Alan Cumming Tours Texas

Tarra Gaines·February 21, 2024

Along with some very fashionable real ones, multi-hyphenated artist Alan Cumming wears a lot of figurative hats.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston San Antonio

Realer than Real: Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Nancy Zastudil·February 10, 2024

The distinctions between what’s real and what’s virtual are growing fuzzier with each new day, not to mention each new tech gadget.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Nancy Zastudil·February 10, 2024

A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries in San Antonio, Houton, Dallas and Autin

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Gallery Row Houston San Antonio Visual Art

Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20

Tarra Gaines·February 10, 2024

The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.

Austin Film Music Theater

Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern

Donna Tennant·February 8, 2024

The exhibition title, Surrealism and Us, references the essay “1943: Surrealism and Us” by Suzanne Césaire (1915-1966), a Martinique writer, feminist, and anti-colonialist. Césaire believed that the concepts, aesthetics, and power of Surrealism could encourage self-determination and independence.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Visible Labor: Inside the world of art handlers at Houston’s Center for Contemporary Craft

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·February 8, 2024

If you’ve ever visited an exhibition and wondered how an artist pulled something off, chances are good a preparator had something to do with it.

Houston Visual Art

Eyes toward the future: Houston’s Hobby Center Builds a New Vision

Tarra Gaines·February 8, 2024

As Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022, its board, staff and its new president and CEO Mark Folkes decided to get contemplative about their identity, especially when it comes to the “Center” in the name.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

Millennial Moms are the Newest Movers and Shakers in Dallas Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Vessels of Heritage: Centro De Artes explores the transformation of everyday objects, places and ideas in a new exhibition in San Antonio’s Historic Market Square

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

A tribute to the legacy: KDH Dance Company performs honestly original new work

Room to Dream Big: Melissa M. Young Leads Bruce Wood Dance Dallas into the Future

Bats, Swans & Bon Bons: Avant Chamber Ballet’s 15th season positions classical dance for modern audiences

Music

A FRESH TAKE: DACAMERA’S SEASON EXPLORES NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT OLD THINGS

Time for Tranquility: Apollo Chambers Players Offer a Contemplative New Season

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

Theater

Building a Theatrical Village: Austin’s Rude Mechs at 30

Fearless & Fabulous at 25: Uptown Players Celebrates Community While Honoring Its Legacy

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

In Good Company: Alley Theatre’s New Season offers plays for Houston Audiences and the resident actors

Houston’s Rec Room Arts Wants to Bring Us Together

Invited to Learn: Bishop Arts Theatre Center ends its 30th season with groundbreaking plays about history-making women

Taking Flight: Zeke Williams and his feathered friends nest at Galveston Arts Center

Classical Gems: Dallas Opera will stage landmark works for its first time

Love, Time & Aging: Alan Cumming Tours Texas

Realer than Real: Sarah Sze at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20

Mysticism, spirituality, and revolution: Black and Caribbean Surrealists at The Modern

Visible Labor: Inside the world of art handlers at Houston’s Center for Contemporary Craft

Eyes toward the future: Houston’s Hobby Center Builds a New Vision