Outstanding Performances: A Vibrant Memphis at TUTS
The Tony Award-winning musical Memphis tells a rollicking story of the dawn of rock ’n’ roll in the segregated south that rejects black and white simplicity.
Rising Talent & Veterans: Next Season at Chamber Music Houston
When the Rolston String Quartet first flashed onto Chamber Music Houston’s radar screen, the young ensemble was quartet-in-residence at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Artists in Charge: An Uncommon Format to Celebrate San Antonio’s 300th Anniversary
Ana Fernandez planned to major in history before the smells emanating from art classes at the University of Texas at San Antonio drew her in a different direction.
What Happens When Goliath Listens to David: HALL Arts gets it right (finally) with Through The Lens
The arts communities of Dallas—like many art communities across the country—are prone to tribalism, which plays out across disciplines, geographies, ethnicities, career stages, education levels, politics, and incomes.
TX Studio: Joseph Cohen
To get to Joseph Cohen’s studio, you have to walk up. He makes his paintings on the third floor of his Houston Heights living space.
The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages
Since we (Nancy Wozny & Tarra Gaines) have an ongoing conversation on what defines an immersive performance, we decided to share some of our adventures and to make some of our endless road trip banter public.
Remembering Harris Wittels: Stephanie Wittels Wachs’s New Sad/Funny Memoir
“Tragedy is the cure for anxiety,” says Stephanie Wittels Wachs of the unwanted and much too costly life and death lesson grief taught her after her comedy prodigy brother Harris Wittels died of a heroin overdose in 2015.
Broad Visions in a Narrow Time: FotoFest 2018 Biennial Focuses on India
Houston’s FotoFest reconvenes, March 10 through April 22, with its biennial exhibition and region-wide gallery focus on all things photographic.
The Front Edge of Theater Making: AT&T’s Off Broadway on Flora
Can any image fill a performing arts venue programmer or curator with more dread than the sight of an empty, darkened theater?
Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida at Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University
Two exhibitions dedicated to the life and works of the 20th-century Spanish Modernist sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) are on view at the Meadows Museum through June 3.
Texas String Divas
For classically-trained string players, the traditional route to making a living as a professional musician is fairly narrow: win a job in a major orchestra, find a full-time teaching position, or gig like there is no tomorrow.