Da Camera’s Big, Varied Season
Houston’s Da Camera bills itself as a presenter of chamber music and jazz, but that hardly gives you the whole picture.
Movement in Time and Space: Summer at the MFAH
In 2013 with James Turrell: The Light Inside, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston began a unique summer precedent, presenting an immersive contemporary art exhibition and inviting the public to beat the heat, not merely to view but to journey inside the art.
Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s The Rehearsal Artist and Post-Verbal Social Network
In one more step towards the antiseptic future envisioned largely by sci-fi movies- a future without dust, disease, age or decay-the very language we invent for our technological revolution has become disembodied and etherealized.
Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages
Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!
Texas Lens: Us and Us
“What would you do,” the performer asks, turning to the audience, “if you were in our shoes?”
Flying High Above the Texas Sky: Aerial Dance takes off in the Lone Star State
“I guess I could say it’s like partnering…partnering with a very tall, not-so-helpful dancer.”
Jerome Robbins Broadway at TUTS
For the last Hobby Center production of its 50th anniversary season Theatre Under The Stars threw a hell of a centennial birthday party for Broadway icon, choreographer and director Jerome Robbins with their revival of Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.
The ACTX Top Ten: June 2019
ACTX magazine's top ten picks for arts and culture events happening across the Lone Star State in June 2019.
Texas Studio: Jimmy Castillo
In his watercolor-like photographs, artist Jimmy Castillo takes on a raft of issues.
Texas Lens: Watching Dallas Dance
I became an accidental dance critic in Dallas a decade ago, just in time.
Thriving at the Helm: Joy Bollinger Finds her Stride at Bruce Wood Dance
Five years after the death of its namesake choreographer, Bruce Wood Dance is in a good place.
Apollo Chamber Players Concludes 20×2020
The project could hardly have a catchier title: 20x2020. But the Apollo Chamber Players faced the challenge of bringing it off. With only six years to go, could the group choose and commission 20 composers to create works it could premiere by 2020?