Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Tarra Gaines·February 2, 2023

Now as spring blooms, we find Austin’s Fusebox, the state’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival, carrying the trend into 2023 with five days (April 12-16) filled with its usual innovative and experimental work, but also a particularly playful and fun lineup.

Austin Dance Music Theater

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Tarra Gaines·February 1, 2023

A longed-for royal baby, a series of blessings and curses from a good-to-evil spectrum of fairies, a bit of a prick, a bead of blood then a century of sleep until a spell-breaking kiss brings the great awakening, happily ever after.

Dance Theater

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·January 10, 2023

In summer 2022, a little-musical-that-could defied the odds in Dallas. Produced as an independent entity, Cabaret at Arts Mission Oak Cliff had no established theater company backing it, no built-in subscriber base, and no big names attached.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’

Steven Brown·December 13, 2022

For all the glories of Carmen, La Boheme, Aida and the like, opera companies sometimes want to tackle a work that’s out-of-the-ordinary: Call it a statement opera. The urge came upon The Dallas Opera before the pandemic.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up

Nancy Wozny·December 8, 2022

It’s been way too long since I sat around the virtual table with our fabulous theater writers Lindsey Wilson and Tarra Gaines to chat about all things performing arts in Houston, Dallas and beyond.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Online Exclusives Theater

Home is where the art is: Uptown Players debuts a new Dallas space for 2023 season

Lindsey Wilson·December 5, 2022

Don’t worry, Uptown Players is still in Uptown—at least part of the time.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Wreckers Away! A Thrilling, Compelling HGO Production Does Justice to a Masterpiece

Sherry Cheng·October 31, 2022

It was a revelatory night at the Houston Grand Opera for the opening of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers.

Houston Music Theater

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

Tarra Gaines·October 21, 2022

Radical visions—that’s what lead programmer, Jazmyne Moreno, says we should look for at this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival (Nov. 10-16).

Film Houston Music Theater

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Nancy Wozny·October 19, 2022

City Council Meeting was developed by Aaron Landsman amd Mallory Catlett, with design by Jim Findlay, and developed (in part) during a residency at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

Books Houston Theater

Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater

Tarra Gaines·October 16, 2022

Back in pre-pandemic 2020, B. Moore Dance company founder Bridget Moore signed on as choreographer for the Second Thought Theatre’s production of Lynn Nottage’s play Mlima's Tale.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Theater

Global Thinking: Dallas Opera Livestreams Main Stage Productions

Steven Brown·October 10, 2022

For a decade, The Dallas Opera has periodically invaded the Cowboys’ home turf—literally.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists

Tarra Gaines·October 2, 2022

Booth hopes that the program will continue to prove Houston’s cultural excellence to go along with the city’s reputation as a home to global business innovators.

Houston Music 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

Wild Time: Fusebox 2023 Brings the Fun Factor

Fresh Beauty: Matthew Bourne spins a darkly beautiful world

Come to the Cabaret: How an underdog musical triumphantly returned to Dallas

An alternative reality of fantasy and myth: Dallas Opera Presents a timeless ‘Das Rheingold’

Roaring Back: The 2022 Wrap up

Home is where the art is: Uptown Players debuts a new Dallas space for 2023 season

Wreckers Away! A Thrilling, Compelling HGO Production Does Justice to a Masterpiece

Radical Visions Play Out at Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2022

A Meeting to Remember: Aaron Landsman and Mallory Catlett’s new book on ‘City Council Meeting’

Tapping Texas Talent: Women Choreographers Make their Mark on Musical Theater

Global Thinking: Dallas Opera Livestreams Main Stage Productions

The New Now Continues: Performing Arts Houston Commissioning Project Celebrates Local Artists