Summer Premieres at Lone Star Lyric
When Kelli Estes planned her first season for Houston’s Lone Star Lyric Theater, the company she founded back in 2006, she was actually in living New York City and not Houston.
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Bringing Music to the People: ROCO’s New Season
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra isn’t planning a Fourth of July concert, but maybe it should. The tradition-busting group has declared its independence -- from the classical hit parade. Scan the group’s programs for 2016-17, and you’ll see nothing that rank-and-file concertgoers would find familiar.
Reinventing Place: Art Blocks Awaken Main Street Square
The blocks between 900 and 1100 Main Street are traveled by many Houstonians on their daily commute, but they constitute an inconspicuous corner of Houston.
Randy Twaddle at Moody Gallery
Randy Twaddle’s work has long managed to tightrope that yawning maw between conceptually acerbic and commercially viable.
A History in Fragments: Jazz on Film at MFAH
If there is a history of jazz, it’s forever incomplete, like archeologists finding fragments of text buried in the sand.
Waltzing with Ghosts: Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch Revises Giselle
On a sunny May afternoon, I found myself spellbound, watching Houston Ballet principals Yuriko Kajiya and Connor Walsh rehearse the very first meeting between Giselle and Albrecht.
Be in the Moment: Matthew Ronay at the Blaffer
With two room-size installations and a selection of recent sculptures and reliefs, Matthew Ronay’s work ranges across botany and biology, anatomy and bodily systems, performance and sculpture, natural phenomena and psychology.
Project Row Houses: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators
In the current round of exhibitions at Project Row Houses (through June 19), there is an uneasy relationship between the visual material and the political work.
Ten Not So Tiny Dances at CounterCurrent 2016
The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center opened its third CounterCurrent's with Ten Tiny Dances on April 12, 2016.
Looking for Connection: We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art at Asia Society
A long excerpt of a diary is pinned to the wall in the Asia Society Texas Center's current exhibition,We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, on view through July 3.
Wrestling on the Blue Carpet: Nancy and Tarra on The Christians at the Alley
Arts + Culture editor Nancy Wozny and Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines take a break from the usual review format to discuss Lucas Hnath's The Christians, running at the Alley Theatre through May 15.
This Page Left Intentionally Blank or Not: Big Dance Theater at CounterCurrent
“Don’t look at that. That’s not part of the tour,” is a phrase used by absolutely no museum docent ever, until Tymberly, the new Menil Collection docent, had me in her guiding clutches.