“This is a real milestone!” Main Street Theater executive artistic director Rebecca Greene Udden offers a wide smile, somewhere between extreme pride and a sense of wonder. “It’s our 40th year, and it’s a time to move forward and try new things.”
In the September world premiere of O Columbia, the new chamber opera from HGOco, a young Houston girl dreams of being an astronaut journeying to the stars.
“So, this is a tap show?” asked a friend, minutes before the curtain went up for Step Afrika's Miller Outdoor Theatre performance on a balmy Saturday night.
Houston, meet KINETIC, a new conductorless ensemble founded by two accomplished young musicians: New Zealand violinist Natalie Lin and Cellist Max Geissler.
Mark Nuccio, who joined the New York Philharmonic in 1999 as associate principal and solo e-flat clarinet, knows that some may think he’s off his rocker for trading in tenure in the Big Apple for heat and humidity.
