Arts and Culture Texas magazine

From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure

Steven Brown·March 14, 2020

The Dallas Symphony’s 2020 Soluna festival will encompass all that and more. The annual music and arts showcase, opening April 3, will feature Dallas artists plus globe-trotting guests; traditional concerts and multimedia immersions; a live incarnation of an acclaimed rock ’n’ roll album as well as a documentary film whose subjects perform in person in front of it.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater Visual Art

Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Tarra Gaines·March 11, 2020

Artists grappling with the political has been the norm for thousands of years, but when art and social-political questioning merge at an interdisciplinary performance festival like Austin’s Fusebox Festival 2020 (April 15-19), the results can sometimes expand artistic boundaries.

Austin Dance Music Theater Visual Art

Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

Lindsey Wilson·March 11, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, Craig Lynch and Jeff Rane took a look around Dallas and noticed a gap. Despite having the sixth-biggest population of LGBTQ people in the nation and a reputation as one of the country’s most gay-friendly cities, no theater company in Dallas was regularly producing theater that told this community’s stories.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

From Comedy to Tragedy: Expect Variety at Fort Worth Opera’s 2020 Festival

Amy Bishop·March 11, 2020

Attention, opera-goers: If you’ve been looking for a chance to change the mind of “that one friend” who swears they don’t like opera, this could be the time.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

The Not-So-Secret Life of Objects: Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s Devices Spread Throughout Texas

Nancy Zastudil·February 22, 2020

Houston-based artists Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, known collectively as Hillerbrand+Magsamen, address topics of family, communication, and consumerism, most recently through their ongoing body of artworks called The Devices Project.

Austin Houston Theater Visual Art

Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·February 18, 2020

For artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, putting up plaques and statues or writing books are still absolutely necessary, but still they see many opportunities to let queer folk “be super queer in how they honor and preserve these histories.”

Houston Theater Visual Art

Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth

Lindsey Wilson·February 13, 2020

Amy Stevenson, a performer and educator who founded and hosts a weekly cabaret called Mama’s Party, has been more than good to Dallas-Fort Worth for the last 14 years.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Theater

Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

Lindsey Wilson·February 12, 2020

If you’ve had any brush with dance, theater, or art in Dallas, you’ve probably seen Danielle Georgiou’s work in one form or another.

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Theater Visual Art

Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages

Tarra Gaines·February 3, 2020

Somewhere near the end of the first act of Stages’ sweet and nostalgic production of the classic musical The Fantasticks when a happy ending tableau had arrived but an entire second act still remained to follow, I couldn’t stop thinking of that likely-apocryphal story about the cosmologist confronting a turtle infinity.

Features Houston Theater

Neighborly Life and Death: ‘The Realistic Jones’ at 4th Wall

Tarra Gaines·January 20, 2020

As that infamous theatrical adage goes: dying is easy; comedy is hard.

Features Houston Theater

A new way of looking: Dallas Children’s Theater premieres a trans story for all teens

Lindsey Wilson·January 17, 2020

But as families and school administrators are beginning to acknowledge the journey that more and more young transgender people are recognizing, exploring, and living, so is Dallas Children’s Theater.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater

Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas

Tarra Gaines·January 10, 2020

As the United States closed its skies on September 11, 2001, thousands of plane passengers found themselves in midair over the Atlantic with only one place to land—the airport near the small town of Gander, Newfoundland.

Austin Dallas/Ft Worth Houston Music San Antonio Theater

Visual Art

Gallery Row: A Seasonal Spotlight on Six Texas Galleries

A Sprawling History: Tavares Strachan at the Blanton

Storytime: Meow Wolf Leans into the Narrative in their immersive adventures

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

Women First: Texas Ballet Theater Highlights Six Outstanding Female Choreographers

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Revealing Repertoire: Houston Ballet’s Triple Bill Tells a Company’s Story

Music

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Spreading the Classical Music Word: San Antonio’s Agarita Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall

Theater

The Hills are Alive with a Pair of Mickle Mahers, Noises Off, Die Hard, Tharp, Cinderella’s Rats and so much more: The 2024 Season Wrap up

Building a Community: D. Wambui Richardson Invites Audiences to Become Part of Jubilee Theatre’s Family

Born to Lead: Circle Theatre’s New Artistic Director Ashley H. White Isn’t Afraid to Shake Things Up

Theater

From Faraway Lands to the Apocalypse, Soluna Festival Is All About Adventure

Expanding Histories at Austin’s Fusebox 2020

Our Stories Onstage: How Dallas grew one of the nation’s biggest LGBTQ theater companies

From Comedy to Tragedy: Expect Variety at Fort Worth Opera’s 2020 Festival

The Not-So-Secret Life of Objects: Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s Devices Spread Throughout Texas

Reunited Lovers & Maritime Allies: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin on Louisiana’s Queer History

Life Is a Cabaret: The Legacy of Mama’s Party in Dallas-Fort Worth

Bizarre and commanding: A look inside Danielle Georgiou’s boundary-crossing theater of dance

Staring into the Theater Infinity: ‘The Fantasticks’ at Stages

Neighborly Life and Death: ‘The Realistic Jones’ at 4th Wall

A new way of looking: Dallas Children’s Theater premieres a trans story for all teens

Ensemble Storytelling: Come From Away Comes to Texas