Ode to a Plate: At Your Service at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Although we may take it for granted as a simple tool, the plate is also a small stage—an intimate setting on which universal routines of daily life take place.
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Houston Chamber Choir’s Spring Season
Robert Simpson sums up what keeps him going: “I’m always excited about whatever is over the next hill,” says the Houston Chamber Choir’s founder and artistic director.
Taking the Lid off Tidy Packages: Next Iteration Theater Company’s First Production Promises Risk and Reward
In a place that can feel very top-down, they are trying to build something from the ground up. Their first production, the world premiere of Lisa Omlie’s The Baby, runs March 10-19 at the MATCH.
Bold Cinema: Houston Jewish Film Festival Highlights Family, History and Comedy
The Evelyn Rubenstein JCC of Houston presents the 12th Houston Jewish Film Festival, with 27 films over 16 days, March 5-20, 2016, at various venues, including the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC, the MFAH, Holocaust Museum Houston, Sundance Cinemas and Congregation Beth Jacob in Galveston.
Weaving Narratives of Music and Art: Jennie C. Jones at the CAMH
Music, much like visual art, has long been a tool used to comment and reflect on sociopolitical and socioeconomic issues.
Strong Statements at the MFAH: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection
Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection is the overly general and therefore utterly uninformative title of an excellent exhibition now ongoing at the MFAH through April 24, 2016.
A Winter for Ibsen: Classical Theatre’s A Doll’s House
Houston's Classical Theatre Company returns to Ibsen this winter with their production of A Doll's House, directed by Classical Theatre's artistic director John Johnson, through Feb. 21 at Chelsea Market location.
Becoming Aurora: Houston Ballet’s Sara Webb on The Sleeping Beauty
A + C editor in chief Nancy Wozny visited with Houston Ballet principal and Dallas native Sara Webb about Stevenson's beloved ballet and the challenges and joys of the role.
Mirrors for Princes
Slavs and Tatars at the Blaffer
A Banner Year: DiverseWorks Moves to the MATCH
A + C writer Holly Walrath sat down with Executive Director and Chief Curator Xandra Eden and Associate Curator Rachel Cook to discuss the move, the new show and the future of the organization.
Love is in the Cards: Linda Phenix Returns to Theatre LaB Houston for 52 Pick Up
Linda Phenix returns to directing with the Theatre LaB Houston production of TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi's romantic comedy of chance, 52 Pick-Up, featuring Houston acting couple, Robin Van Zandt and James Monaghan, Feb. 5-28 at the MATCH. Like the name of the card game, 52 Pick-Up involves the actors throwing the cards into the air to determine the order of the scenes.
Love and Loss: The Bridges of Madison County at TUTS
I might very well be the last American woman over the age of 25 who has neither seen the Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood movie The Bridges of Madison County nor read the 90s zeitgeist novel by Robert James Waller that it’s based on.