Acting in Texas: Greg Cote
Greg Cote lived on all three US coasts before he reached the sixth grade. When his Dad retired from the Navy in 2000 the family found themselves in Lake Jackson, Texas trying to decide where to go next.
The ACTX Top Ten: September 2019
The top ten arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in September 2019.
Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’
In Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Artistic Director Joshua L. Peugh’s newest work, Pete: A Dance Musical a playground becomes Neverland and a favorite childhood fairy tale extends beyond a youthful adventure and incorproates commentary on life’s inherent contradictions and the queer, minority experience.
Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes
Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?
Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season
After staging its first full-length opera last season, Houston’s Ars Lyrica is giving itself a year’s break before it presents the second.
Legacies of a Friendship: UT Celebrates Major Charles White Donation
In the fall of 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, artist David Hammons curated an exhibition called Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci.
Wait & See: Elmgreen & Dragset at Nasher Sculpture Center
Whether it’s creating a faux art fair or turning a giant swimming pool on its Vincent-Van-Gogh’s-ear, two international artists are bringing their conceptual sculptural sensibilities to Dallas.
Signature Works and Milestones: Houston Ballet at 50
A 50th anniversary deserves a celebration. But what kind? Houston Ballet’s leaders looked back across the company’s history, starting before the 1969 debut of the company as we know it today.
Texas Studio: Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya
Full of color, depth, and texture, the work of Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya — brush name Akirash — seeks to dance, pull viewers in, and let them connect with the work and the world around it.
Haley Nelson In Residence: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater’s In-House Producer
Since its founding in 1998, the National New Play Network has produced 85 rolling world premieres. Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater, formed in 1990, is one of NNPN’s founding core theaters, and hosts the longest-running new play festival in Texas.
Homegrown World Premiere: Blake Hackler at Second Thought and Circle Theatre
When Blake Hackler handed over his newest play, What We Were, to Second Thought Theatre artistic director Alex Organ, he wasn’t expecting an offer to produce it.
A State of Their Own: Latinx Playwrights Call Texas Home
Texas is home to a growing cohort of Latinx playwrights working in all parts of the state who have chosen to remain here despite the unique challenges that they face as artists of color in the Lone Star State.