A Theater of Objects, Ideas and Ideals: Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin
Human-induced climate change, denied by certain politicians and often ignored by many, is a threat to every species on the planet.
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Going Up: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project keeps rising in its fifth year
If you’re wondering how the Dallas performing arts scene has changed over the past five years, just look at the Elevator Project.
Acting in Texas: Greg Cote
Greg Cote lived on all three US coasts before he reached the sixth grade. When his Dad retired from the Navy in 2000 the family found themselves in Lake Jackson, Texas trying to decide where to go next.
Dark Circles’s Joshua Peugh Takes on Peter Pan with ‘PETE: A New Dance Musical’
In Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Artistic Director Joshua L. Peugh’s newest work, Pete: A Dance Musical a playground becomes Neverland and a favorite childhood fairy tale extends beyond a youthful adventure and incorproates commentary on life’s inherent contradictions and the queer, minority experience.
Haley Nelson In Residence: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater’s In-House Producer
Since its founding in 1998, the National New Play Network has produced 85 rolling world premieres. Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater, formed in 1990, is one of NNPN’s founding core theaters, and hosts the longest-running new play festival in Texas.
Homegrown World Premiere: Blake Hackler at Second Thought and Circle Theatre
When Blake Hackler handed over his newest play, What We Were, to Second Thought Theatre artistic director Alex Organ, he wasn’t expecting an offer to produce it.
A State of Their Own: Latinx Playwrights Call Texas Home
Texas is home to a growing cohort of Latinx playwrights working in all parts of the state who have chosen to remain here despite the unique challenges that they face as artists of color in the Lone Star State.
Directing in Texas: Emily Scott Banks
In her decade of professional directing, the former dancer (and award-winning actor) has led more than her share of challenging shows.
All the World’s a Murder Train: Agatha Christie at the Alley
Theater critic true confession: I love spoilers.
Reimagining Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes: ‘Immortal Longings’ at the ZACH
Impresario, the promoter, financier, artistic director and all round driving visionary of a performing arts company or enterprise, is not a title bestowed onto individuals much anymore.
Nudged Out of the Cloud: Michelle Ellsworth’s The Rehearsal Artist and Post-Verbal Social Network
In one more step towards the antiseptic future envisioned largely by sci-fi movies- a future without dust, disease, age or decay-the very language we invent for our technological revolution has become disembodied and etherealized.
Wolves, Mountains and Big Brother: Tarra & Nancy Dish on Texas Stages
Enjoy our semi-annual Texas performance gab session, where we discuss all that we saw, what we missed and what we loved!