Sixty Years Later…With Ballet Austin
As Ballet Austin celebrates its sixth decade of performance, the company is a beehive of rehearsals and rumpus.
Editor’s Picks
Home and Away: The Miró Quartet’s Fall Texas Season
The Miró Quartet loves to expose an audience to the panorama of a single composer’s works.
The Ensemble Theatre Celebrates 40 with a Stellar Season
It all began in the trunk of a car. George Hawkins, lean and possessed of a mega-watt smile, spent the 1960s and the early 1970s captivated by the African-American Theater Movement.
Book From the Sky: Xu Bing’s Breakthrough Work Comes to Texas
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1872), the heroine Alice holds a mirror to the inverted words of “Jabberwocky” and realizes she has entered a mirror world. The quote also serves as an entry point to the Blanton Museum’s upcoming exhibition of Book from the Sky by artist Xu Bing, on view through Jan. 22.
flow: Jae Ko at CAMH
Downstairs at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Zilkha Gallery is a cold space. When it’s empty, the bare white walls and concrete floor can make it feel like an icy cavern buried deep in the Tundra. It’s a suitable place for flow, the latest in a series of site-specific installations by Jae Ko called Force of Nature, on view through September 18, 2016.
Meditations on Love, Art, and Life: Yayoi Kusama at the MFAH
The name Yayoi Kusama often conjures images of polka-dots spreading out into the infinite, and the odd pumpkin.
Bringing Music to the People: ROCO’s New Season
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra isn’t planning a Fourth of July concert, but maybe it should. The tradition-busting group has declared its independence -- from the classical hit parade. Scan the group’s programs for 2016-17, and you’ll see nothing that rank-and-file concertgoers would find familiar.
The Troublemakers: A young generation of Dallas theater makers pursue socio-political activism in their work
In Dallas, a generation of young playwrights is beginning to flex dramatic muscle in pursuit of social change, pushing their work past the impulse to create art for art’s sake.
Be in the Moment: Matthew Ronay at the Blaffer
With two room-size installations and a selection of recent sculptures and reliefs, Matthew Ronay’s work ranges across botany and biology, anatomy and bodily systems, performance and sculpture, natural phenomena and psychology.
Old Yet New: Ars Lyrica’s Fresh Take on Vivaldi and Next Season’s News
Maybe you’ve heard Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons umpteen times. Nevertheless, Ars Lyrica wants to show you the Baroque warhorse in a fresh light.
Theater for Right Now: DTC’s New Season
“We look around the world we live in, at topics that are relevant in the news, our civic life, in the culture as a whole,” Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director of the Dallas Theater Center tells me when I ask him how he and his team begin to conceive a season.
Classics & Connections: The Dallas Opera’s 2016/17 Season
The Dallas Opera's 60th season is back to basics, with three classics of the Western canon and two modern psychological dramas.