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Review: Love Goes To Press

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Main Street Theater November 23-December 23, 2012 This just in: the battle of the sexes meets the front in Main Street Theater’s rediscovered mid-40’s wartime romance Loves Goes To Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles. Despite the welcome presence of pre-feminist leading women [...]
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Review: Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2012

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Another Houston Cinema Arts Festival (HCAF) has come and gone, which for me meant another five days in the dark. As with all festivals, you see a lot and you miss a lot. Three things stood out for me: Andrew Garrison’s charming Trash Dance, Phil Solomon’s epic American Falls [...]
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Review: Body Awareness

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It might sound a bit risqué when you first hear that a theatre company called Stark Naked is putting on a play called Body Awareness. But despite its title, Annie Baker’s 2008 one-act play has much more to do with the mind and with psychological evasiveness than with [...]
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Review: The Italian Girl in Algiers

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The Italian Girl in Algiers Giant hats, a suspended cage, growing sand castles and balloons in the shape of Italy are just a few of the comic objects blown wonderfully out of proportion in Houston Grand Opera’s production of The Italian Girl in Algiers by Gioacchino [...]
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Review: Floyd Newsum

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At Wade Wilson Art, Floyd Newsum presents his latest body of richly-hued, heavily-worked, densely-layered paintings. Many of the paintings are influenced by Newsum’s ongoing interest in the arts of Sirigu, a village in northern Ghana. Throughout the exhibition, collaged elements [...]
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Review: La bohème

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In Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, happiness is simply one hand to warm another. As a humming audience member made clear, the melodies Puccini wrote are stunning and memorable, making this opera a well-known favorite. It’s hard to capture Puccini’s original, effortless simplicity [...]
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