THE HUNT, THE HAUNTED, THE GODDESS, AND THE MAGNIFICAT: THE SPLENDID VISIONS OF ARS LYRICA HOUSTON
Matthew Dirst, Artistic Director of Ars Lyrica Houston, is a wizard at thematic programming.
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A Line, Learning: Cy Twombly at Menil Drawing Institute
There is a moment, standing before a work by Cy Twombly, when language begins to loosen.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
A Last Entrance: ‘Leopoldstadt’ at Main Street Theater
Early in Sir Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the Player King attempts to explain the nature of theater to Rosencrantz.
Diaspora Stories: Spring offers a bounty of Latinx Theater Festivals
Texas has rich communities of immigrants.
Theatrical Magic: When One Actor Plays Many Roles
But the one actor carrying multiple important roles is not often the standard, at least anymore.
The Hands Shaping Houston: Clutch City Captures the City’s Character at HCCC
Houston has always answered to more than one name. Bayou City, Space City, H-Town, Screwston: each nickname captures a real part of its character, but none can contain the whole of it.
Day, Night, Repetition, Impossibility: Hong Hong at DiverseWorks
The black box theater at DiverseWorks' MATCHBOX 1 is dark except for four massive video projections—twelve feet tall, twenty feet wide—filling each wall.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
An Artful Camaraderie: Member-owned and operated Archway Gallery celebrates its fiftieth anniversary
Fifty years ago, on April 1, 1976, Dada artist Max Ernst passed away; Steve Jobs launched Apple Computer; and in Houston, 12 artists opened Archway Gallery in the Jung Center.
Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return
Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.
An Icon in Motion: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy at Houston Ballet
When the English National Ballet first commissioned international superstar choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to create the ballet that would become Broken Wings, the original concept was to create a dance about “a woman from literature or history that was damned and doomed.”