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Review: James Brown

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James Brown: The Distinct Connection Texas Gallery September 20-November 3 Ivory and dense– black forms dance across the walls at Texas Gallery. Vibrating with stillness, James Brown’s painting series Planets: The Distinct Connection offers us a meditation on the cosmic and metaphysical. Brown creates a rhythm of hundreds of spots that [...]
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Review: Miss Julie

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Classical Theatre Company September 26-October 14, 2012 Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whose death marks its one-hundredth anniversary this year, is remembered both for his hand in shepherding drama away from overelaborate plotting towards a pared down naturalism [...]
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Incredible India!

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Following only a week after the latest Bollywood Blast programming, Samskriti’s Incredible India! event at Miller Outdoor Theatre on September 8 showcased two energetic dance troupes from India, one traditional, one contemporary: NADAM (Nathan Academy for Dance and Music), and Stem Dance Kampni. The operative word of the night [...]
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Review: Otello at Opera in the Heights

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Gold medallions, dapper suits, and a man snorting heroin set the new scene of Gioachino Rossini’s Otello. Though still a tragic tale of a father’s prejudice and a daughter’s sense of duty, it is opera’s Scarface. Rossini’s Otello is the first of two Houston opera premieres in Oh!’s [...]
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Review: Life Is a Dream

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Main Street Theater September 20 – October 21 Main Street Theater opened its 38th Season with Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s poetic masterpiece, Life Is a Dream. Written in the 17th century, the work questions what it means to be fully awake and if it is only in our dreams [...]
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Review: Mike Beradino at Emergency Room

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As sculpture physically occupying Emergency Room, a snack-sized exhibition space at Rice University, Mike Beradino’s Lode Runner is more of a curiosity than a feast for the eyes. It looks like what it is: a DIY computer, assembled from salvaged parts, whirring and humming atop a similarly [...]
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Review: In Appropriation at HCP

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In Appropriation at the Houston Center for Photography is one of the strongest exhibitions currently showing in the city. Curated by SeeSaw Magazine founder and editor Aaron Schuman, it includes the work of seven artists who incorporate appropriation methodologies into their practices [...]
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