Between Two Elizabeths: British Royal Portraits at the MFAH
Recounted in song, plays, novels, films and Lifetime television movies, the saga of the rise and fall of generations of British royals has fascinated commoners for centuries.
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Communication, context, and consent: Why more Texas theaters are hiring intimacy directors
As more instances of sexual harassment and abuse of power are being uncovered, especially in the theatrical community, more companies are realizing they need an important addition to their creative team: an intimacy director.
Friendship, Rivalries and Lots of Ale: ‘Book of Will’ at Main Street Theater
Will Shakspere, actor, theater owner and writer is dead; long live–for 400 years–William Shakespeare.
Double ‘Dutchman’ opens HGO and Dallas Opera Seasons
He’s the ultimate outsider. Cursed by Satan, the protagonist of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman must sail the world’s seas for all eternity.
Watch Her Work: Suzan-Lori Parks Gives 2018 Mitchell Artist Lecture
In 2014, internationally renowned playwright Suzan-Lori Parks began her much-discussed “Watch Me Work,” an occasional performance on Monday evenings in which audiences can quite literally watch Parks working on her newest writing projects on the mezzanine of the Public Theater in New York.
New Leader, New Focus: Theatre Under the Stars Returns to its Houston Roots
When Tony®-Award-nominated director and choreographer Dan Knechtges took the helm of one of Houston’s oldest and largest theater companies, Theatre Under the Stars, he knew the artistic director title might require steering the organization through some stormy times, but he likely wasn’t ready for a real hurricane.
Houston’s ROCO focuses on Works by Women
Alecia Lawyer, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra’s artistic director, introduced the idea discreetly last fall: She and two other musicians devoted a program on the group’s Unchambered series entirely to works by female composers.
Houston’s Period-instrument Group puts Music in its Original Context
In your typical music-school teaching studio, a Steinway grand piano would easily dominate the room.
You Didn’t Have to Be There, But It Helps: Stage Environment at CAMH
“It is not an acropolis we want there. It is not Culture on a corner. I think of the new museum building as a stage environment to house the multimedia in which artists of today are working.”
Houston Celebrates Bergman at the MFAH
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is nobody’s idea of a summer watching.
Why We Sing: Houston Chamber Choir Celebrates the Art and Joy of Singing Together
Robert Simpson, founder and artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir (HCC), has just brought home one of the most coveted awards in the field of choral music.
TX Studio: Julia Barbosa Landois
Julia Barbosa Landois and I sit under the marginally-less sweltering awning of a Houston coffee shop on one of the first truly furnace-like days of the year, discussing her fears.