Design in Texas: Ryan McGettigan
Set designer Ryan McGettigan’s bold designs have graced the stages of many of the theater companies in Houston.
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Archaeology of the Stage: Hidden Room Theatre and the Ransom Center
Austin’s Hidden Room Theatre is steadily building an international reputation for their almost archaeological approach to performance.
The Troublemakers: A young generation of Dallas theater makers pursue socio-political activism in their work
In Dallas, a generation of young playwrights is beginning to flex dramatic muscle in pursuit of social change, pushing their work past the impulse to create art for art’s sake.
Bare Bones Shaw: Bedlam Comes to Stark Naked
This summer, Houston drama-lovers need to brace themselves for bedlam— stark naked bedlam that is, as a local favorite theater brings to town one of Off Broadway’s hottest companies for a new vision of George Bernard Shaw’s classic Saint Joan, June 2-18 at Studio 101 in Spring Street Studios.
Digital Detectives Probe a Dystopian Future in The Nether at the Alley
A cop and suspect stare at each other from across a table in a stark and claustrophobic interrogation room. These first moments of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether at the Alley Theatre (Through May 29) reveal a setup we’ve seen before on a thousand police and procedural shows.
Wrestling on the Blue Carpet: Nancy and Tarra on The Christians at the Alley
Arts + Culture editor Nancy Wozny and Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines take a break from the usual review format to discuss Lucas Hnath's The Christians, running at the Alley Theatre through May 15.
Theater for Right Now: DTC’s New Season
“We look around the world we live in, at topics that are relevant in the news, our civic life, in the culture as a whole,” Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director of the Dallas Theater Center tells me when I ask him how he and his team begin to conceive a season.
Curtain Up: Theater Returns to the J
From its sprawling campus along Houston’s Brays Bayou, the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center has long enjoyed a reputation as an epicenter for arts and cultural events.
Caught up in the Action: The Audience Gets To Work on Texas Stages
As adults, we understand the classic theater relationship between play and audience.
Rude Mechs Take Texas (for a Change)
Whether they’re airily dodging swinging theatrical lights or brawling in the melted cheese of an overflowing gold-plated queso fountain, Austin’s Rude Mechs have some serious (and seriously funny) moves.
Transformation & Surprise: CounterCurrent Stretches Houston’s Art Expectations
From April 12-17, eleven cutting-edge artists present new works, projects, and performances at unexpected sites throughout the city, creating what director Karen Farber calls “endless opportunities for transformation and surprise.”