The Ballad of Stage West: Fort Worth theater company’s 47th season is a matter of life and death
Stage West’s 47th season is full of wild turns: ghost machines, war-time ceasefires, financial despair, and a cottage crawling with infidelity.
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Glitter and Be Gay: Uptown Players celebrates chosen family, queer joy, resilience, and rebellion in 2025-26 season
The theater produced by Uptown Players has always pulsed with a particular kind of energy that’s equal parts heart, wit, and daring.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Concert Trucks and Onstage Dinners: Performing Arts Houston offers its most varied schedule yet
There’s multidisciplinary and then there’s Performing Arts Houston.
Outcast Heroes and Storybook Musicals: Broadway Across Texas
As we celebrate season announcement season at Arts and Culture, it’s time once again for this resident theater cartographer to unroll her maps and season schedule to chart the ebb and flow of big Broadway musicals as they tour the Lone Star State.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Fade To Black: Week-Long Arts Festival Amplifies Black Voices in Houston
At a time when many institutions are pulling away from telling diverse stories, Houston is proudly showing its support for the Black artistic community with the Fade To Black Festival.
Leaping into the Unknown: The Risks and Rewards of World Premieres
Everyone loves a good first, from races to teams to a step on the moon, but when it comes to theater, being the first to offer a brand new work is not without risks.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Stories From The Room: The Case for Live Performance
A few years have passed since live performance returned to stages across Texas after the pandemic, and we at Arts and Culture have been thinking about how easily its siren song called us back.
Next Chapter: The New Stewards of Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage to Continue Commitment to New and Underrepresented Works
Jay Duffer and Elizabeth Kensek have long traveled in similar circles.
Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place
Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.