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The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Tarra Gaines·October 2, 2022

Booth hopes that the program will continue to prove Houston’s cultural excellence to go along with the city’s reputation as a home to global business innovators.

Houston Music Theater

Stir Your Heart Toward Change: Bruce Wood Dance Expands Its Reach

Lindsey Wilson·October 2, 2022

The 2022-23 season is a bit of a homecoming for Bruce Wood Dance.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance

Matt Manalo asks ‘Is Liberation Attainable?’

Emily Hynds·September 27, 2022

Manalo’s family immigrated to the United States from the Philippines when he was nineteen, sparking what would become one of the major driving questions - what does ‘home’ mean?

Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes

Sherry Cheng·September 19, 2022

In Kinetic’s collaborative model, each of the 16 musicians in the conductorless string ensemble brings his or her creative voice to the table, to the rehearsal space, and to the concert stage.

Houston Music

Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach

Steven Brown·September 19, 2022

Nobody expected the Houston Chamber Choir’s season opener to tie in with the news of the world.

Houston Music

Loud and Clear: Vignette Art Fair amplifies women’s voices

Lindsey Wilson·September 9, 2022

The Vignette Art Fair gives women artists from all over Texas the opportunity to exhibit their work and make their voices known.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

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

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

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Stir Your Heart Toward Change: Bruce Wood Dance Expands Its Reach

Matt Manalo asks ‘Is Liberation Attainable?’

Kinetic Season 8: Distinct Voices, New Works, and Wild Soundscapes

Houston Chamber Choir Expands its Reach

Loud and Clear: Vignette Art Fair amplifies women’s voices

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