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Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season

Steven Brown·September 9, 2022

The Houston Symphony’s new music director, Juraj Valčuha, acknowledged that opening the season with a requiem may strike some as “a strange idea.” But Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is no ordinary setting of the mass for the dead.

Houston Music

Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season

Steven Brown·September 2, 2022

When the Apollo Chamber Players made its debut, grand visions of the future had nothing to do with it. The quartet, violinist Matthew Detrick recalls, had one simple goal: “to do that first concert.”

Houston Music

The Parts that Make Us Whole: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts at the McNay Art Museum

Nancy Zastudil·August 15, 2022

“Creative people need time to sit around and do nothing.” This perceptive quote from author Austin Kleon, a self-described “writer who draws,” is front and center on Deborah Robert’s Instagram account as I’m writing.

San Antonio Visual Art

The difficult past and hopeful future of Latinx theater in Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·August 10, 2022

In 1980, two years after Teatro Dallas was founded by Cora Cardona and Jeff Hurst, only 9.9% of Dallas’s 904,078 residents ticked the newly added box for “Hispanic.”

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

When one of Houston’s most acclaimed poets, Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, set out to interview the city’s most legendary dancer, Lauren Anderson, she didn’t have a fully-formed creative objective.

Dance Houston Music Theater

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Music Theater

New and rediscovered voices: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women in Fall Concerts

Steven Brown·August 3, 2022

Almost overnight, orchestral concerts went through a revolution.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

The Power of an Image: FotoFest Biennial 2022 confronts the issues of our time

Sherry Cheng·August 3, 2022

Just as the song was a response to the concerns of its time, the works that constitute the central exhibition of FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer (Sept. 24-Nov. 6 at Silver Street and Winter Street Studios) confront the issues of our time.

Houston Visual Art

All in for Beauty: Charlotte Smith at Camiba Gallery

Sherry Cheng·August 3, 2022

For more than 20 years Dallas-based artist Charlotte Smith has reveled in experimenting with paint, and occasionally other materials, creating a signature style grounded in process-driven abstraction.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Show Up Visual Art

Next Chapter: Artist, Curator, and Educator Benito Huerta Retires

casey gregory·July 26, 2022

The artist has held roles as Professor and Curator at the University of Texas at Arlington for twenty-five years, and the occasion of our conversation is his retirement.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Avant Chamber Ballet’s 10th season celebrates women and whimsy

Lindsey Wilson·July 26, 2022

Ten years is a huge milestone for an arts organization, and Avant Chamber Ballet is celebrating accordingly.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Theater

Afsaneh Aayani Manifests ‘Theater For All’

Emily Hynds·July 26, 2022

If you saw Innominate by Afsaneh Aayani at Catastrophic Theatre, you might think you know who Aayani is. You would be right and wrong at the same time.

Houston Texas Studio Theater 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

Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season

Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season

The Parts that Make Us Whole: Benny Andrews and Deborah Roberts at the McNay Art Museum

The difficult past and hopeful future of Latinx theater in Dallas

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

New and rediscovered voices: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women in Fall Concerts

The Power of an Image: FotoFest Biennial 2022 confronts the issues of our time

All in for Beauty: Charlotte Smith at Camiba Gallery

Next Chapter: Artist, Curator, and Educator Benito Huerta Retires

Avant Chamber Ballet’s 10th season celebrates women and whimsy

Afsaneh Aayani Manifests ‘Theater For All’