Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·October 14, 2019

Boone, gearing up for his solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Highway Hex (Nov. 9-Feb. 17), has concocted a body of work inspired in its way by both Leatherface and Stanley Kubrick.

Houston Visual Art

The Art of Programming Surprise: Aperio Unleashes Seductive New Season

Sherry Cheng·October 14, 2019

Aperio opened its 2019-2020 season in September riding the Onda Nueva (New Wave), relishing the characteristic blurring of boundaries that makes music from Latin America so rich and vital.

Houston Music

Sound, Fury and Bears: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the Alley

Tarra Gaines·September 23, 2019

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.

Houston Theater

Heart and Mind Synchronicity: ‘The Hard Problem’ at MST

Tarra Gaines·September 18, 2019

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.

Features Houston Theater

Musiqa’s Open Field Season

Steven Brown·September 16, 2019

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.

Houston Music

Show Up: Margarita Cabrera

casey gregory·September 16, 2019

To artist Margarita Cabrera, loose threads are “a reference to the labor and the importance in the act of making by hand.”

Houston San Antonio Show Up Visual Art

Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’

Tarra Gaines·September 15, 2019

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.

Dance Features Houston Theater

Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too

Nichelle Suzanne·September 10, 2019

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.

Dance Houston

Acting in Texas: Greg Cote

Emily Hynds·September 10, 2019

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.

Acting in Texas Features Houston Theater

Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’

Isabelle Dom·August 27, 2019

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Features Houston Theater

Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes

Steven Brown·August 20, 2019

Holocaust museums aren’t just about the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews. How could they be?

Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Visual Art

Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season

Steven Brown·August 20, 2019

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.

Houston Music

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Material Culture: Betsabée Romero at Blanton Museum of Art

Cartoon King: The Brilliant Accessibility of KAWS at Crystal Bridges

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

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Reimagining a Classic: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Breathes New Life into Raymonda

Dance Here: Agora Artists is Planting the Seeds to Make Dallas a Dance Town

Music

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Celebrating 125 Years, the Dallas Symphony Looks Back to its History

Triumph in Tragedy: Ars Lyrica Houston’s Luminous Theodora

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston

Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres

Houston

Hypnotized by the Highway with Will Boone at the CAMH

The Art of Programming Surprise: Aperio Unleashes Seductive New Season

Sound, Fury and Bears: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the Alley

Heart and Mind Synchronicity: ‘The Hard Problem’ at MST

Musiqa’s Open Field Season

Show Up: Margarita Cabrera

Becoming a Sensational One: TUTS Revisits ‘A Chorus Line’

Meg Booth Breaks Down SPA’s Dance Series and Hopefully Some Barriers, Too

Acting in Texas: Greg Cote

Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’

Expanded Missions: Dallas and Houston Holocaust Museums Open Spacious New Homes

Ars Lyrica’s Sumptuous Season