Neighborly Life and Death: ‘The Realistic Jones’ at 4th Wall
As that infamous theatrical adage goes: dying is easy; comedy is hard.
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Texas Studio: Delita Martin
When I visited artist Delita Martin at her Black Box Press Studio this past December, it became clear over the course of our conversation that her bold, multi-layered prints of “everyday” working-class black women emerge through a strikingly similar kind of spiritual traversal.
Texas Studio: Catherine Turocy
Search for information on baroque dance and it won’t be long before you come across the name Catherine Turocy.
Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun
Nancy Wozny: Pack a lunch, Lady T, we have a year and a decade to discuss. Let’s not be so top ten-ish, but think categorically. I always find what we are still talking about is the most revealing.
Texas Studio: Alicia Eggert
The Dallas-based artist Alicia Eggert, along with collaborator James Akers, recently opened a captivating new work at Houston’s Color Factory, a pop-up space that focuses on “instagrammable,” site-specific installations.
Texas Studio: Brendan Bourque-Sheil
Houston playwright Brendan Bourque-Sheil describes his journey to his current situation as a rollercoaster with many trips to “the deep end.”
A Lonely Beauty: ‘The Children’ at the Rec Room
Two women, old friends but decades absent from each other, have tea in an isolated British seaside cottage.
Texas Studio: Maja Ruznic
Rooted in trauma, identity and the refugee experience, the artistic practice of Bosnia-born painter Maja Ruznic draws on collective memory.
Representation in the Borderlands: UTEP Brings Latinx Theater to El Paso
On August 3, 2019, El Paso entered the national zeitgeist when an active shooter killed 22 people at a Walmart. The shooter’s goal: to kill as many people of Mexican descent as possible.
Hope through a Latinx Lens: ‘In the Heights’ at Dallas Theater Center
In the Heights, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, won four 2008 Tony Awards and has become the most recognizable Latinx musical.
Texas Studio: Deborah Roberts
With ten sold-out shows in a span of two and a half years, including the Stephen Friedman Gallery in London and Vielmetter Los Angeles, Deborah Roberts is experiencing a deluge of success.
Heart and Mind Synchronicity: ‘The Hard Problem’ at MST
In one of his most recent works, The Hard Problem, getting its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (through Oct. 6), Stoppard goes in heavy on the head, rather literally as the play follows scientists looking into questions of how the brain creates the mind, how we are conscious of our own consciousness.