REVIEW: HGO’s First Pearl Fishers Dazzles and Gleams
It was a night of many firsts at Houston Grand Opera’s production of French composer Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers.
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Sylvia Continues Houston Ballet’s Storybook Season
Thanks to Welch’s love for the music, he and the company are about to unveil their first staging of the mythology-based work, which premiered in a luxe Paris Opera Ballet production in 1876. Sylvia, the tale of a shepherd’s love for a forest nymph, is the first of four full-length story ballets that Houston Ballet has in store from now through June. The coming ones include the other great beneficiary of Delibes’ gifts, Coppélia.
Texas Studio: Angel Oloshove
I visited ceramicist Angel Oloshove at her studio in the Houston Heights to talk about her process, what’s on the horizon, and how she got to where she is.
It Happened in Texas: Josephine Boudreaux at the Houston Symphony
“She played with a fine fury all evening, and her bow was a rod and a staff for the comfort of Nespoli,” lauded music critic Hubert Roussel, writing for the Houston Gargoyle.
Bold Cinema: Houston Iranian Film Festival at the MFAH, Rice Cinema and Asia Society
At the MFAH’s Houston Iranian Film Festival, now in its 26th year, the seats are always full. The festival, established by the MFAH and Rice Cinema, runs Jan. 18-26, with screenings at both venues and at Asia Society Texas Center.
REVIEW: Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975 at the MFAH
In five sections, Contesting Modernity surveys twenty years of work in Venezuela by numerous artists, some of whom a Houston audience will already know from curator Mari Carmen Ramírez’s extensive catalog of groundbreaking, research-driven exhibitions at the MFAH.
Houston Theater 2018: A Chat with Tarra Gaines
It was a big year on the Houston theater landscape. Most nights of the week ACTX’s trusted Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines can be found in a theater seat. Gaines visited with ACTX editor Nancy Wozny to sort out what happened on Houston stages in 2018.
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast at TUTS
Twenty-five years ago, to the month, Theatre Under the Stars world-premiered Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in its pre-Broadway run and introduced this independent Belle to the stage. As a grand holiday offering (through Dec. 23), TUTS now revives the show for its 50th anniversary season.
REVIEW: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at 4th Wall Theatre
The great grand dame of hate-becomes-love stories Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice always held a current of social commentary beneath the surface of the glorious romance.
REVIEW: Nicolas Moufarrege at the CAMH
The story of Nicolas Moufarrege is a sad one. Lost to the AIDS crisis in New York City at the age of 36, the artist had only been in practice for a decade and undoubtedly had much left to produce. Curated by Dean Daderko and on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through Feb. 17, 2019, Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is the first solo museum exhibition for Moufarrege.
REVIEW: Ars Lyrica’s ‘Agrippina’
When Matthew Dirst was a graduate student in France, a splashy revival of a long-neglected 17th-century opera galvanized his love of baroque music.
Sci-Fi Theater: The Epic Adventure of ‘Panto Star Force’ at Stages
If you are familiar with a certain popular space franchise enjoying a reboot right now, you might see some similarities with this years Panto at Stages Repertory Theatre, which promises to take us to a galaxy far, far away.