Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Starting from Scratch: Jennifer Mabus builds a Dance BFA at the University of St. Thomas

Nichelle Suzanne·January 17, 2020

2019 was a year of firsts for the University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston and its Dance Program Chair Jennifer Mabus as the school’s inaugural cohort of dance majors stepped into the studio for the fall semester.

Dance Houston

In HGO’s Marian Anderson Opera, a Legendary Voice Still Resonates

Steven Brown·January 17, 2020

Even after Marian Anderson won international acclaim as a singer, she felt the sting of racial discrimination. She fought back with unique weapons: her deep river of a contralto voice and her unshakably dignified bearing.

Houston Music

Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas

Tarra Gaines·January 10, 2020

As the United States closed its skies on September 11, 2001, thousands of plane passengers found themselves in midair over the Atlantic with only one place to land—the airport near the small town of Gander, Newfoundland.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Music San Antonio Theater

Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun

Tarra Gaines·January 10, 2020

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.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Music Theater Visual Art

Walking on the Edge: Artistic Directors Define Risk

Tarra Gaines·November 14, 2019

“You can’t fly if you have never left the ground,” says Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre cofounder, Kim Tobin-Lehl, when thinking about taking artistic risks.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Theater

Awakening Conversation: Group Acorde Gives Us Something to Talk About

Nichelle Suzanne·November 14, 2019

Group Acorde wants people talking about art—theirs or otherwise. The interdisciplinary, Houston-based quartet—dancers Lindsey McGill and Roberta Paixão Cortes, bassist Thomas Helton and saxophonist Seth Paynter—are in the middle of their fourth season.

Dance Houston

Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·November 14, 2019

Monja Coronada (“crowned nun”) paintings are portraits of nuns completed either at the profession of their vows or upon their deaths.

Houston Show Up Visual Art

From Film to Stage: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Visits Texas

Tarra Gaines·November 12, 2019

From Shakespeare to SciFi, actors often return to a beloved character to find new life in the role. Yet, very few of these revisits hold such a unique offstage story like acclaimed international film, television and stage actor Sasson Gabay.

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Music Theater

Texas Studio: Brendan Bourque-Sheil

Emily Hynds·November 12, 2019

Houston playwright Brendan Bourque-Sheil describes his journey to his current situation as a rollercoaster with many trips to “the deep end.”

Features Houston Texas Studio Theater

A Lonely Beauty: ‘The Children’ at the Rec Room

Tarra Gaines·November 12, 2019

Two women, old friends but decades absent from each other, have tea in an isolated British seaside cottage.

Features Houston Reviews Theater

Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet

Sherry Cheng·November 4, 2019

A visit to the cavernous EaDO warehouse at 908 Live Oak Street in Houston, the physical home of the groundbreaking non-profit design house Magpies & Peacocks (M&P), leaves a mélange of aesthetic impressions that reflects the environmental sustainability mission of the organization, yet defies definition.

Austin Houston Visual Art

Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nancy Zastudil·October 23, 2019

Every once in a while, an artist steals our attention and shakes, shocks, or stuns us into awareness. Colombian artist Beatriz González also graciously opens our minds in the process, exposing the world to us in ways we may not have considered.

Houston Visual Art

Visual Art

Awe and Wonder: Space City at Asia Society Texas

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Culture Examined: Kimbell Art Museum offers a window into Dutch art in the Global Age

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology

Cheers to 15 Years: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas isn’t afraid to mix things up for 2025

Music

Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock’s Cultural Scene

Theater

A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Through An Inclusive Lens: Diversity and divas populate Uptown Players’ 2024-25 season

Houston

Starting from Scratch: Jennifer Mabus builds a Dance BFA at the University of St. Thomas

In HGO’s Marian Anderson Opera, a Legendary Voice Still Resonates

Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas

Nancy and Tarra Dish on the Decade, 2019 and Chekhov’s Gun

Walking on the Edge: Artistic Directors Define Risk

Awakening Conversation: Group Acorde Gives Us Something to Talk About

Show Up: Amber Eagle at Galveston Arts Center

From Film to Stage: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Visits Texas

Texas Studio: Brendan Bourque-Sheil

A Lonely Beauty: ‘The Children’ at the Rec Room

Magpies & Peacocks: Art, High Fashion, and Saving the Planet

Unsettled Images: Beatriz González at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston