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The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 21, 2018

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.

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Remembering Harris Wittels: Stephanie Wittels Wachs’s New Sad/Funny Memoir

Tarra Gaines·February 21, 2018

“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.

Books Houston

Broad Visions in a Narrow Time: FotoFest 2018 Biennial Focuses on India

casey gregory·February 20, 2018

Houston’s FotoFest reconvenes, March 10 through April 22, with its biennial exhibition and region-wide gallery focus on all things photographic.

Visual Art

The Front Edge of Theater Making: AT&T’s Off Broadway on Flora

Tarra Gaines·February 14, 2018

Can any image fill a performing arts venue programmer or curator with more dread than the sight of an empty, darkened theater?

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida at Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University

Arie Bouman·February 14, 2018

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Visual Art

Texas String Divas

Sherry Cheng·February 14, 2018

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.

Re-gendering History: ‘Men on Boats’ at MST

Tarra Gaines·February 14, 2018

History may be written by the victors, as the saying goes, but fundamentally history is written by the writers and the landscape of history etched into images by the cartographers, though they are perhaps paid by those victors.

Houston Theater

Global Vision: Dance Salad Festival Moves to the Hobby Center

Nancy Wozny·February 12, 2018

Every year at Easter time, Houston transforms into a hub of international dance, thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and artistic vision of Nancy Henderek, founder of the Dance Salad Festival.

Dance Houston

Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’ comes to Austin and the Blanton

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin·February 12, 2018

It seems facile to call Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin an instant icon, but an icon it is.

Austin Visual Art

TX Studio: Darryl Ratcliff

Ashley Jones·February 12, 2018

On Ash Lane sits Ash Studios, a building described by Darryl Ratcliff as “a social sculpture that has had an amazing practical and symbolic meaning in Dallas.”

Texas Studio

Film Fusion: ‘Sunken Garden’ at Dallas Opera

Eric Skelly·February 12, 2018

A war has been waging for centuries: words versus music…which is more important in opera?

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

I THINK WE MEET HERE: Shana Hoehn, Yue Nakayama, and Felipe Steinberg at UT Austin Visual Arts Center

Sabine Casparie·February 12, 2018

I Think We Meet Here, on view through Feb. 23 at UT Austin Visual Arts Center, is an exhibition of video-based work by Shana Hoehn, Yue Nakayama, and Felipe Steinberg, three artists from the Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Austin Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

The Stories that Hair Can Tell: Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at the Martin Museum of Art

Collecting as a Cultural Practice: Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen at the MFAH

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

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

Aimed Dance Fest Ignites Contemporary Dance in Southeast Texas

A Wonderland Awaits: Houston Ballet’s new season offers something for every ballet lover

Awesome Analog: Performing Arts Houston brings its biggest season yet for 60th Anniversary

Music

A Summer Spoof: The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston Serves up ‘The Gondoliers’

Awesome Analog: Performing Arts Houston brings its biggest season yet for 60th Anniversary

ROCO’s Virtual Cycle of Access to Music

Theater

History and Community Come Together at Houston’s Stages Theater

New and Now: Jaime Castañeda’s inaugural Dallas Theater Center season is packed with premieres

Broadway Across Texas

The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages

Remembering Harris Wittels: Stephanie Wittels Wachs’s New Sad/Funny Memoir

Broad Visions in a Narrow Time: FotoFest 2018 Biennial Focuses on India

The Front Edge of Theater Making: AT&T’s Off Broadway on Flora

Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida at Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University

Texas String Divas

Re-gendering History: ‘Men on Boats’ at MST

Global Vision: Dance Salad Festival Moves to the Hobby Center

Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’ comes to Austin and the Blanton

TX Studio: Darryl Ratcliff

Film Fusion: ‘Sunken Garden’ at Dallas Opera

I THINK WE MEET HERE: Shana Hoehn, Yue Nakayama, and Felipe Steinberg at UT Austin Visual Arts Center