Diaspora Stories: Spring offers a bounty of Latinx Theater Festivals
Texas has rich communities of immigrants.
Houston
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.”
Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up
Whether used as a compliment, insult, meme, or pseudo psychological term to explain a politician’s antics, the phrase “theater kid,” (or “theatre kid” for the British, Canadian, and pretentious) has become something of a catch-all description for anyone enthusiastic about the performing arts or who holds a “pick me” mentality of life.
Photography as a Question: Wendy Watriss Curates at The Menil Collection
A documentary photograph can make a promise and then break it.
Global Visions, Local Ground: FotoFest at 40
Houston has a way of turning scale into a language.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages