Soaring Music and Real Characters: Fun Home at AT&T
The foundation of Fun Home is not merriment as the title might suggest.
Theater
Dinner of Doom: 4th Wall opens its final season with Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
Great drama is seldom blatantly didactic, but on occasion theater does gift us with certain life-tips to aid us along our journey.
Glam Makeover: The Hidden Room’s Henry IV in Austin
Shakespeare, politics, glam rock: these are not terms we often put together, if ever, yet this month, Austin’s Hidden Room theater company plans to merge the three into a rocking trio for a production of the Bard’s glorious history play Henry IV, through Oct. 1 at York Rite Masonic Hall.
Theater After Harvey: Houston’s Small Companies Must Continue
As the Texas Gulf Coast begins the rebuilding process after the catastrophic damage of Hurricane Harvey, so too has the local theater community.
A New Era: Jeffrey Schmidt at Theatre Three
When Jeffrey Schmidt began planning his first season as artistic director of Theatre Three, he considered opening with Andorra, Max Frisch’s highly charged political play about collective bigotry.
What about Gender?: Creative Casting on Texas Stages
The hot-button issue of casting has recently received a lot of ink as directors, actors, and audiences try to grapple with how to even out a traditionally imbalanced art form.
Acting in Texas: Luis Galindo
Since I moved to Texas, Luis Galindo has been one the local actors that I most look forward to seeing on stage.
Sister Tarra Goes to Horse Head’s Church
Beloved Brothers and Sisters, I bid you welcome to this Church review, and I ask that you receive it with the openness of heart that I offer it.
Rec Room’s Punk New Season
“What the heck is a Rec Room?” was the question I set out to answer almost a year ago when I interviewed the performance art space co-owners and founders, Matt Hune and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre
Houston’s Horse Head Theatre company has a reputation for staging intriguing and occasional avant-garde contemporary plays in nontraditional and even bizarre venues, from the back porch of a bar to a geodesic event dome on the banks of Buffalo Bayou.
A Crisis of Space: Austin Struggles with the Loss of Performance Venues
“We always felt that this was a clubhouse for a group of friends who felt like we were a little bit off,” he said. “We still feel a little off and we still want to be that clubhouse, that space for people like us who feel a little off. We have to find another way to do that now.”
Dallas Children’s Theater Mufaro Returns Home after National Tour
At first, the schoolchildren who are filing into Dallas City Performance Hall with wide eyes and the occasional giggly outburst might seem excited simply to be out of the classroom and on a field trip.