Building a Global Network: The Fusebox Universe at 20
The planets will align this spring for Fusebox Festival’s 20th anniversary.
Theater
Amazing, Fabulous, Spectacular: New Works Light Up Fort Worth’s Amphibian Stage in 2024
It’s likely you’ve never heard of any of the titles in Amphibian Stage’s 2024 season, and that’s exactly how Kathleen Culebro wants it.
Old Friends, New Stories: Familiar faces meet provocative premieres in Uptown Players’ 2024 season
Since its founding in 2001, Uptown Players has put a heavy emphasis on relationships—not only with its patrons, the majority of whom identify as LGBTQ+, but also with its performers, musicians, crew, artistic and administrative staff, and playwrights and composers.
TX Studio: Callina Anderson finds her balance
Callina Anderson is a Houston-based actor who recently wrapped On the Exhale at Unity Theatre in Brenham.
Changing My Major: SMU’s newly endowed musical theater program is being built by a Dallas legend
Since 1969, Southern Methodist University has been offering performing arts degrees in theater, music, and dance through undergraduate tracks in the Meadows School of the Arts.
Social Issues, Puppets, Yellow Swings and Big Changes: The 2023 Wrap Up
We are back for our epic annual public chit chat, a tiny snapshot of the thousand dishy emails that fly across the inter tubes discussing what we just saw, missed, didn’t understand or flat out loved.
Embracing the Theatrical in Non-Theatrical Spaces: Kitchen Dog Theater makes all of Dallas its stage
At the start of its 33rd season, Kitchen Dog Theater found itself without a home.
In the Space Between: AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project continues to tell Dallas’ unique stories
“Warning: You’re going to hear me say ‘I’m really excited about this’ a lot.” This is one of the first things Hector Garcia says during our interview about the Elevator Project’s 2024 season, and it’s not an understatement.
Bucking the Trend: While other arts organizations are barely surviving, Fort Worth’s Stage West is thriving
In a time when regional theaters are reeling from post-pandemic shortages, losses, and even devastating closings, one Fort Worth theater seems remarkably immune (knock on wood).
Boredom, Chaos, and Intimacy from Austin Playwright Sam Mayer
Austin-based playwright Sam Mayer is in that fray, questioning what success in the theater means, both for him and for the art form more generally.
Holiday Office Party Spirit: ‘The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical’ at TUTS
Houston’s Theatre Under The Stars also understands the allure of some tacky fun and plans to offer the ultimate holiday show alternative this season with the world premiere, The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical.
Texas Deep Divers: Turning Research Into Art
A researcher—who just might be an artist—enters a university library and gains access to a rarely viewed archive.