TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism
“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”
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Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center
In Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground), the ground is never just ground; it is a witness and a griot, a surface that keeps score of what passes over it and what takes root.
Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary
Is it strange for an opera company to stage Fiddler on the Roof? Showcasing the Broadway landmark makes total sense to Annie Burridge, Austin Opera’s CEO.
Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces
“We can’t build sets in here. We have to build a real thing,” says Azizi of what he approximates is a 20 feet by 70 feet space, with half of that reserved for the audience.
Vision and Variety: Texas Performing Arts Celebrates International and Local Artists
The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, nursing their cauldron of toil and trouble, rank among the most chilling characters ever set loose onstage. Imagine what might happen if they found an apprentice to carry on their dark arts.
Performa/Dance Marks Their 10th Anniversary with ‘ANTHROPOCENE’
How does a dance-maker address an impending climate catastrophe while still energizing and delighting audiences?
Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas
As we celebrate season announcement season at Arts and Culture, it’s time once again for this resident theater cartographer to unroll her maps and season schedule to chart the ebb and flow of big Broadway musicals as they tour the Lone Star State.
Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art
When do materials matter? Some artists might say: always.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres
Everyone loves a good first, from races to teams to a step on the moon, but when it comes to theater, being the first to offer a brand new work is not without risks.
A Transformative Century: Black Queer Ecstasy at Art Galleries at Black Studies at UT Austin
It’s doubtful that a mystic Carmelite nun was the inspiration for scientists at the German company Merck when they developed 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as ecstasy and molly, in 1912.