Review: Apocalypse Town
Sure, the word ‘apocalypse’ might bring to mind a scorched-earth wasteland, an image of a world abandoned, forsaken — an image which a project concerned with life in post-conflict Kosovo might want to conjure [...]
Review: Il Trovatore
With hidden identities, passionate love, and a gypsy’s vicious revenge, it is no wonder that Verdi’s dramatic “Il Trovatore” remains so popular. It’s a task to add passion to this already effusive opera, but this is precisely [...]
Review: Rock, Roll & Tutus
Stanton Welch’s new ballet “Tapestry” made for one gorgeous vehicle to show off his current crop of ballet athletes. Launching with an expansive solo by Houston Ballet’s newest principal, Joseph Walsh, “Tapestry” [...]
Review: “In the Next Room”
I dare you to bring your Mom to this play, which features more orgasms than I’ve ever seen on stage in a long history of theatergoing. True to its subtitle, “The Vibrator Play” aims to shock and titillate, but Ruhl is too smart [...]
Review: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”
Within the first five minutes of Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company’s recent production “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” you understand that the place you are about to encounter is not your own. This is a bizarro parallel to the world you know [...]
Cultural Warrior: Matthew Lennon
HAA’s Director of Civic Art & Design With Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” guarding Mc-Govern Lake at...
Park Place Projects: The Art of Russ Pitman Park
“I’m interested in politics, the idea of connecting to the earth — as in artist Ana Mendieta’s ‘Silueta’ series,” says Divya Murthy, curator of “It’s a Phase,” an exhibition of on-site artist projects at Russ Pitman Park [...]
All Is Fair In Art?
The Dallas Art Fair (DAF) makes two unspoken promises that, prima facie, seem at odds — untenable in the coupling of the radically new and the easily recognizable. The DAF proposes to be the most hip, happening [...]
Angels in Houston
The celebrated American Ballet Theatre principal Angel Corella is one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers. His passion is now evident in his company, Corella Ballet, making its Houston debut, presented by Society for Performing Arts [...]
New Notes: Composers in Houston
Anthony Brandt thinks Houston is a composer’s city. Brandt, a professor of composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of Musiqa, a collective of five composers, knows what he is talking about. [...]
The Life of Documentary Filmmakers In Houston
“We made a little money off of T-shirt and sticker sales and a screening last year,” says Alex...
What’s Old is New Again
John Johnson, known throughout Houston’s tight-knit stage community as “JJ,” is happy enough sharing the official motto of the troupe he founded, for which (as with his name) Classical Theatre Company [...]