Sound, Fury and Bears: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the Alley
Even in a canon filled with political advising witches, fairy marriage wars and revenge seeking ghosts, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale still stands–statuesque–as an odd chimera of a play.
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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.
Musiqa’s Open Field Season
Anthony Brandt urges his composition students at Rice University to keep an open mind about the musical styles that influence them. “I often say, ‘Don’t put a fence around yourself. Feel the joy of having an open field around you, and discover what you might love that you didn’t know you would,’” he explains.
Show Up: Margarita Cabrera
To artist Margarita Cabrera, loose threads are “a reference to the labor and the importance in the act of making by hand.”
Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’
The problem with bringing a groundbreaking work of art into the world is that sometimes it alters the landscape so much that when we revisit it we might forget that such a wonder didn’t always exist.
Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too
Meg Booth worked with organizations like North Carolina Dance Theatre, White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp Dance and Dance/USA before spending 11 years directing dance programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Acting in Texas: Greg Cote
Greg Cote lived on all three US coasts before he reached the sixth grade. When his Dad retired from the Navy in 2000 the family found themselves in Lake Jackson, Texas trying to decide where to go next.
Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’
In Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Artistic Director Joshua L. Peugh’s newest work, Pete: A Dance Musical a playground becomes Neverland and a favorite childhood fairy tale extends beyond a youthful adventure and incorproates commentary on life’s inherent contradictions and the queer, minority experience.
Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes
Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?
Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season
After staging its first full-length opera last season, Houston’s Ars Lyrica is giving itself a year’s break before it presents the second.
Signature Works and Milestones: Houston Ballet at 50
A 50th anniversary deserves a celebration. But what kind? Houston Ballet’s leaders looked back across the company’s history, starting before the 1969 debut of the company as we know it today.
A State of Their Own: Latinx Playwrights Call Texas Home
Texas is home to a growing cohort of Latinx playwrights working in all parts of the state who have chosen to remain here despite the unique challenges that they face as artists of color in the Lone Star State.