Houston Ballet Soars in John Neumeier’s Otherworldly Midsummer Night’s Dream
Two smooth bodies, outfitted in glittering unitards
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Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
Beginning in 1852 and continuing for more than two decades, the French emperor Napoleon III, along with his apparatchik—Baron Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine—embarked on a massive public works program to regularize and sanitize the medieval agglomeration that was Paris.
Wildcatting The Chamber Orchestra
Juilliard-trained oboist Alecia Lawyer still admits to feeling amazement whenever she sees a real estate website citing River Oaks Chamber Orchestra—a.k.a. ROCO—as another great reason to relocate to Houston.
The Miró Quartet Opens the Chamber Music Houston Season
Opening the Chamber Music Houston Season for the second year in a row, The Miró Quartet brings the world premiere season of Gunther Schuller’s Quartet No. 5, on Sept. 16 at the Stude Concert Hall, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
Making Place
For three months this fall, Houston Arts Alliance, local artists and community partners call attention to Houston’s “love affair” with movement, transformation and reinvention through Transported + Renewed, a mix of community-based and contemporary art projects through the city’s East End.
Out of State, Top of Mind
On the Road, Texas Museums Loom Large in the Rear-View Mirror I used to joke that going to...
Words to Motion
John Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Launches Houston Ballet’s Season
A Deeper Shade of Soto
Shortly after the late Jesús Rafael Soto’s posthumously realized Houston Penetrable went on view in the Museum of...
Center Stage
Dance Theatre of Harlem stops at Miller Outdoor Theatre on July 23 and the visit couldn't be more timely.
Suga
Currently on view at BLUEorange Contemporary, Suga is the fifth exhibition in a cycle of collaborations between artists Rabéa Ballin, Ann Johnson, Delita Martin and Lovie Olivia.
Beyond Buildings
Arts Districts Are Nice, But It’s What They Do That Counts A view of the Dallas Arts...
Dinner Theater Redefined
Just when I thought Houston dance has experiencing a bit of a lull, in walks a gaggle of Search Optimizer workers, Deuce Ticklebeetle, Shelly Kelly, Roxi Wright, Gretchen Charise Kittridge, Gwenevieve Hues, and Alyssa Roberts, to Good Dog Houston to mess with our heads.