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Review: Holier Than Thou
Poison Apple Initiative’s new work, Holier Than Thou, is a three-part investigation into reality television and its demoralizing...
From Doomsday to Hell
Another Hilarious Romp from Tamarie Cooper Tamarie Cooper has been entertaining summer theater audiences for over a decade with her hilarious spectacles mixing dance, music and outrageous theater, sourcing her own life as material. She co-founded The Catastrophic Theatre with Jason Nodler in 2007. For ten years her “Tamalalia” series [...]
Myths and Hymns at HSPVA
Bit of a Stretch Returns for the Summer Never underestimate what a small group of dedicated performing arts...
Editor’s Remarks: Summer 2013
It’s summer or for some of us, Tamarie time. Every summer, Catastrophic Theatre’s Tamarie Cooper whips up an...
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop
In photography circles, the decades-long debate continues between darkroom and digital. Purists argue that the richness, warmth and depth of a print brought to life through the marriage of negatives, positives, paper and chemicals still cannot be achieved by even the most drool-worthy of high-tech, archival-quality inkjet [...]
Jeff Elrod/Jeremy DePrez: Fantasy Island
Abstract painting has been a significant part of the art world for a century, but the past few...
Adventurous Programing (Re-)Defined
Houston arts organizations embrace risk and reward In the business of classical music, the subject of adventurous concert...
Housing Your Work
Venue Hunting in Houston When Horse Head Theatre Company performed Stephen Belber’s Fault Lines, which takes place entirely...
Dancing in the Dark
NobleMotion Heads Back to the Studio for a Hobby Show While other companies go on hiatus during the...
Place Play
Houston Set Designers Conjure Fantastic Worlds In 2008, Jodi Bobrovsky bought a taxidermied dog and began Googling images...
Time to Ramble On…Home
Houston’s Nomadic Arts Groups Put Down Roots With the onslaught of trendy pop-up galleries, mobile exhibitions, and flash-mob art culture, some Houston’s arts organizations have had their fill of being on the move. Catastrophic, Stark Naked, and Mildred’s Umbrella theater companies, as well as Aurora Picture Show, Dance Source Houston [...]