Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Free & Fabulous: Fusebox Festival Promotes Idea Exchange Across Disciplines and Borders

Claire Christine Spera·February 18, 2016

If you can dream it, you can do it: This seems to be the unofficial mantra behind Austin’s Fusebox Festival, which this year will boast more than 60 performances, workshops and talks put on by some 30 local, national and international artists, all for free for the general public.

Austin Dance Theater Visual Art

Taking the Lid off Tidy Packages: Next Iteration Theater Company’s First Production Promises Risk and Reward

Layla Al-Bedawi·February 18, 2016

In a place that can feel very top-down, they are trying to build something from the ground up. Their first production, the world premiere of Lisa Omlie’s The Baby, runs March 10-19 at the MATCH.

Houston Theater

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Jennifer Smart·February 17, 2016

Eugene O'Neill on stage at Undermain Theatre

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Reviews Theater

Performania: Small Scaling the Arts

Nancy Wozny·February 10, 2016

here's something about do-ablity that is making me a more eager watcher these days. Perhaps I suffer from a mild case of sustainability syndrome. Maybe it's my Buffalo upbringing or being raised by depression era parents that puts me in the “doing more with less” mood.

Dance Music Performania Theater

The ACTX Top Ten: February 2016

Jennifer Smart·February 8, 2016

Our top ten picks for arts + culture events in Texas for February 2016.

Dance Music Theater Top Ten Visual Art

Timeless & Universal: Dallas Theater Center’s Romeo and Juliet

SCOT C. HART·February 4, 2016

Joel Ferrell, Associate Artistic Director at Dallas Theater Center, is at the helm of a new, modernized production of the ultimate classic love story, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The show runs Feb. 5-28 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

A Winter for Ibsen: Classical Theatre’s A Doll’s House

Nancy Wozny·February 4, 2016

Houston's Classical Theatre Company returns to Ibsen this winter with their production of A Doll's House, directed by Classical Theatre's artistic director John Johnson, through Feb. 21 at Chelsea Market location.

Houston Theater

Circle Theatre’s Clever Little Lies holds true to form

SCOT C. HART·February 3, 2016

And while the New York production may have been a stroll down memory lane, the current regional premier of Clever Little Lies at Circle Theatre in Fort Worth (through Mar. 5), must stand on its own merits with an all-local cast. Happily, it’s no lie to say the locals carry no shame.

Dallas/Ft Worth Reviews Theater

If/Then Can’t Have It Both Ways

SCOT C. HART·February 2, 2016

If/Then is a new touring musical aptly titled for it has two dueling personalities. It can be clever/confusing, bright/dark, fun/maudlin, sincere/fake.

Reviews Theater

Love is in the Cards: Linda Phenix Returns to Theatre LaB Houston for 52 Pick Up

Nancy Wozny·January 25, 2016

Linda Phenix returns to directing with the Theatre LaB Houston production of TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi's romantic comedy of chance, 52 Pick-Up, featuring Houston acting couple, Robin Van Zandt and James Monaghan, Feb. 5-28 at the MATCH. Like the name of the card game, 52 Pick-Up involves the actors throwing the cards into the air to determine the order of the scenes.

Houston Theater

Love and Loss: The Bridges of Madison County at TUTS

Tarra Gaines·January 22, 2016

I might very well be the last American woman over the age of 25 who has neither seen the Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood movie The Bridges of Madison County nor read the 90s zeitgeist novel by Robert James Waller that it’s based on.

Houston Reviews Theater

Flawed Characters

Jennifer Smart·January 21, 2016

Martyr at Second Thought Theatre

Dallas/Ft Worth Features Reviews Theater

Visual Art

Awe and Wonder: Space City at Asia Society Texas

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Culture Examined: Kimbell Art Museum offers a window into Dutch art in the Global Age

Gallery Row

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

Dance

Texas Studio: Jordan Fuchs Starts with Choreography

Engaging Audiences: Frame Dance’s 2024 Frame x Frame Festival Focuses on Screendance’s Unique Space in the Dance Ecology

Cheers to 15 Years: Bruce Wood Dance Dallas isn’t afraid to mix things up for 2025

Music

Kinetic at 10: Virtuosic Ensemble Grows Deep Roots in Houston

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock’s Cultural Scene

Theater

A Succession Story: Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre Company Secures its Future

A Scandinavian Frozen Highlights the TUTS season

Through An Inclusive Lens: Diversity and divas populate Uptown Players’ 2024-25 season

Theater

Free & Fabulous: Fusebox Festival Promotes Idea Exchange Across Disciplines and Borders

Taking the Lid off Tidy Packages: Next Iteration Theater Company’s First Production Promises Risk and Reward

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Performania: Small Scaling the Arts

The ACTX Top Ten: February 2016

Timeless & Universal: Dallas Theater Center’s Romeo and Juliet

A Winter for Ibsen: Classical Theatre’s A Doll’s House

Circle Theatre’s Clever Little Lies holds true to form

If/Then Can’t Have It Both Ways

Love is in the Cards: Linda Phenix Returns to Theatre LaB Houston for 52 Pick Up

Love and Loss: The Bridges of Madison County at TUTS

Flawed Characters