Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

Tarra Gaines·April 29, 2022

Society for the Performing Arts is now Performing Arts Houston, but Meg Booth, chief executive officer, makes it clear that their mission to bring the world of music, dance, theater as well as cultural speakers to the city is still fundamental to who they are after 50 years.

Dance Houston Music Theater

All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare Dallas turns 50

Lindsey Wilson·April 29, 2022

Nothing says summer in Dallas quite like Shakespeare in the Park. For 50 years now, the Bard of Avon’s fans have been unfurling blankets, laying out picnics, and popping the corks on glistening bottles of chilled wine before enjoying an evening of iambic pentameter under the stars.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season

Sherry Cheng·March 21, 2022

Describing herself as “relentlessly optimistic,” Khori Dastoor officially took over the reins as Houston Grand Opera (HGO)’s General Director and CEO in January 2022, becoming the first woman to lead the prestigious company in its 67-year history.

Houston Music Theater

Texas Lens: Leading The Crossings in San Antonio

Amber Ortega·March 10, 2022

Damaris Ferrer describes a bridge as a portal and any path or structure that serves as a connector. The Crossings is her global project which uses a massive, red fabric with eight elastic waistbands for eight movers as a catalyst.

Dance San Antonio Texas Lens Theater Visual Art

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Tarra Gaines·March 4, 2022

“Sonic partnerships.” If we had to describe the return of Austin’s Fusebox Festival in 2022 after its pandemic interruption, a plethora of sound performances and projects emerging from very unique partnerships leads to such a description.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project

Tarra Gaines·March 2, 2022

During an immersive dance production the line between audience and dancer can blur, but in an Annie Arnoult Open Dance Project performance that blurring expands from the space between dancer and audience to the line between theater and dance, history and story, viewing and autonomous experiencing.

Dance Houston Theater

In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages

Lindsey Wilson·February 7, 2022

It can be argued that wrestling is a form of theater, with its dramatic storylines, thrilling choreography, and powerful characters.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Theater

A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage

Tarra Gaines·January 9, 2022

Flash forward deep into the pandemic and the height of streaming theater while lying on a couch, I thought a lot about live, in-person stage chemistry.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Lone Star Stories Theater

Double Vision: Dallas Opera Returns to Grandeur and Grows its Digital Audience

Steven Brown·January 7, 2022

Opera’s grandeur will at last come back to the Winspear Opera House on Feb. 18, when TDO revives its production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (through Feb. 26).

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

The Underworld on Stage: ‘Hadestown’ Tours Texas

Tarra Gaines·December 21, 2021

Even once the show goes on, the director’s work is still not done. This has become especially true for the Tony winning director of Hadestown, Rachel Chavkin.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Houston Music Theater

The Alley Theatre at 75

Tarra Gaines·November 28, 2021

Houston’s Alley Theatre, one of the oldest and largest companies in Texas, celebrates its 75th anniversary with a beautiful monster of a season.

Houston Theater

It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns

Tarra Gaines·October 21, 2021

“It’s Houston. Literally every single thing is happening, including filmmaking. Everything is happening in Houston.”

Dance Film Houston Music Theater Visual Art

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

Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season

All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare Dallas turns 50

Fortune Favors the Bold: Powerhouse Women Lead Houston Grand Opera’s New Season

Texas Lens: Leading The Crossings in San Antonio

Building on Partnerships: Fusebox Festival Returns to Austin

Collage Artist: Annie Arnoult’s Immersive World at Open Dance Project

In the Ring: How performer Christopher Llewyn Ramirez brought lucha libre to Dallas stages

A Spark in the Dark: Chemistry on Stage

Double Vision: Dallas Opera Returns to Grandeur and Grows its Digital Audience

The Underworld on Stage: ‘Hadestown’ Tours Texas

The Alley Theatre at 75

It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns