Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season

Steven Brown·September 2, 2022

When the Apollo Chamber Players made its debut, grand visions of the future had nothing to do with it. The quartet, violinist Matthew Detrick recalls, had one simple goal: “to do that first concert.”

Houston Music

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

When one of Houston’s most acclaimed poets, Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton, set out to interview the city’s most legendary dancer, Lauren Anderson, she didn’t have a fully-formed creative objective.

Dance Houston Music Theater

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

Tarra Gaines·August 10, 2022

After a performance season filled with joyful starts, heart-breaking cancellations and casting understudies for the understudies when positive COVID tests rolled in, Texas theater companies have endured much real life drama to make the leap back to live performances.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Lone Star Stories Music Theater

New and rediscovered voices: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women in Fall Concerts

Steven Brown·August 3, 2022

Almost overnight, orchestral concerts went through a revolution.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music

Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season

Steven Brown·July 23, 2022

Ars Lyrica is picking up right where it left off. After closing last season with the poignant finish of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Houston’s baroque ensemble will launch its 2022-23 season with another helping of the melancholy, gently dissonant harmony that bears Purcell’s trademark.

Houston Music

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Sherry Cheng·June 13, 2022

In Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s mind, a quintessential DACAMERA season must have a balance of beloved masterpieces performed by great musicians from the classical world, and fantastic jazz of varying styles that reflect the ever-widening genre.

Houston Music

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Sherry Cheng·May 26, 2022

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, his only true opera, is an indisputable masterpiece and one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Dallas Opera Celebrates 65 Years

Steven Brown·May 19, 2022

To help make the 65th-anniversary season special, the company is staging four operas that it hasn’t produced in more than a decade, Derrer says, and it will showcase each in a production that’s new to Dallas audiences.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

Tarra Gaines·May 6, 2022

During the height of the streamed performing arts portion of the pandemic, I thought a lot about the difference between being a viewer and an audience member.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Theater

Texas on Stage at the McNay

Steven Brown·May 2, 2022

The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts contains artifacts dating back centuries, and its exhibitions sometimes revel in that broad historical panorama. But The Great Stage of Texas, running through July 24 at San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum—the collection’s home—could hardly be more contemporary.

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A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

If the 2021-2022 theater season was about getting back on stage for many Texas performing arts companies, Theatre Under The Star’s 2022-2023 season might be best described as a season ready to take that big breath, then sing, dance and celebrate life renewed.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

Society for the Performing Arts is now Performing Arts Houston, but Meg Booth, chief executive officer, makes it clear that their mission to bring the world of music, dance, theater as well as cultural speakers to the city is still fundamental to who they are after 50 years.

Dance Houston Music Theater

Visual Art

Making & Becoming: The Glassell’s Block Program Celebrates 10 years with Two Shows

TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas

‘Birdy’ Takes Flight in Texas: Hung Dance at TITAS and Performing Arts Houston

Sharing the Same Rhythms: Cara Mía Theatre’s Latinidades Festival Returns to Dallas

Music

Music in Every Neighborhood: Monarch Chamber Players expands its Mission

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary

Theater

Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages

Honoring the Past, Forging into the Future: Derek Charles Livingston Settles in at Houston’s Stages Theater

Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage

Music

Apollo Chamber Players Celebrates 15 Years with an Ambitious Season

Still Rising: Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton brings Lauren Anderson’s story to the Stage

A Good Laugh: The Fun Factor on Texas Stages

New and rediscovered voices: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women in Fall Concerts

Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Handel and more: Ars Lyrica’s Bright New Season

Quintessential DACAMERA: Programming Magic in the 2022-23 Season

Beauty Transcends Death: Dido and Aeneas at Ars Lyrica Houston

Dallas Opera Celebrates 65 Years

Go Big, Go Joyful: The Journey Back to the Theater

Texas on Stage at the McNay

A Season of Hope: Theatre Under The Stars’ Celebratory Vision

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season