You Can Go Home Again
Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan Returns to Houston Ballet “I love my childhood,” mused my son, at age nine,...
Houston
Room for Improvement
Theater’s Proposed Renovation Includes Overdue Improvements But Needs a Lighter Touch In contrast to Houston’s other major theaters — Jones Hall, The Wortham Center, and The Hobby Center, which are bland, boxy affairs — the Alley Theatre is an utterly memorable building. Originally designed by Ulrich Franzen, its [...]
Suspended Animation
The Bridge Club Heads to Currents New Media Festival If the medium is the message, as philosopher and...
A Plethora of Prints
PrintHouston Returns, Leaving Its Mark on Spaces Large and Small Although it’s only in its third year, PrintHouston,...
artiFACTS: June 2013
Robert Simpson, artistic director of the Houston Chamber Choir announced the Choir’s 18th season, Where Class Meets Cool. The 2013-2014 season includes masterpieces by Brahms, Handel, Palestrina, and Duruflé, along with works by today’s leading composers including a newly commissioned piece by Jocelyn Hagan, recent winner of the [...]
Editor’s Remarks: June 2013
I met Jeffrey Dell a year ago in Arturo Palacios’ office, and have been looking forward to his...
8 Kids, 2 Punk Rock Fans, a Probation Officer & a Dream
Ben Tecumseh DeSoto’s Whole Mind Workshop Brings Art Where It’s Needed Most Having signed an agreement with the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department not to photograph the kids or use their real names in this story, I ask the three 16-year-olds at the Raul Yzaguirre School for Success’s high-school campus on [...]
Art Car Goes Up for Auction to Put a Roof Over Houston Met’s New Home
One man’s treasure is a dance company’s fundraiser. Long-supporters of Houston’s art scene [you may know them from...
MFAH Inflated Attendance Figures for Years
General Admission Visits Are Less Than 19% of Beck, Law Building Tallies Having spent two weeks poring over annual reports and attendance data, I’ve got good news and bad news about the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [...]
Orchestrating Success
The Conductors of the Texas Music Festival When is a conductor more than a conductor? When he (or...
Close Up Space
When we first meet editor Paul Barrow, the protagonist of Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space, making its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (MST), he’s self-righteously ripping through a series of emails from the headmaster at his rebellious daughter’s boarding school, tearing apart extemporaneous words and phrases [...]