Newer Works Highlight Opera Season
The Dallas Opera is returning to four mainstage productions for the company’s 2013-2014 season in the Margot and...
The Price of Beauty
Because of the caliber of the Nasher Sculpture Center, it is one of the three museums in this...
Emancipating the Soul
Urban Souls Dance Company A line of Congolese villagers dance for healing as their spines undulate while they...
Felipe Lopez Holds Studio Show and Sale
Contemporary artist, Felipe Lopez, presents a special studio show and sale at his space at Winter Street Studios....
Hope Stone to Honor Nancy Wozny
Hope Stone, Inc. honors Nancy Wozny with Hope Angel Award Nancy Wozny, a local and national arts and cultural...
Review: La Bayadère
If it be true that “ballet thy name is woman” (so says Balanchine), then in Houston her name is Karina Gonzalez, a dancer of such extraordinary power that she assumes the center of any stage where she finds herself. So, it made perfect sense for her to be the on cover [...]
Review: Howard Sherman, Artist Picks
Native Houstonian and painter Howard Sherman affirms his talent for visual decision-making in an exhibition of paintings that mostly aren’t his own. On view through March 22 at Alliance Gallery, Howard Sherman: Artist’s Picks features one of his canvases alongside the work of six local [...]
Review: John Cage at Hiram Butler Gallery
It goes without saying that John Cage’s reputation as one of the 20th century’s most influential and innovative...
Review: God of Carnage
I’ll admit: my first reaction to the news that Stark Naked Theatre Company had inserted French playwright Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage into its current season between Body Awareness and Macbeth was, “Oh no, not that thing again!” It was only a year ago that I caught [...]
Cinema Circuit: 9th Annual Houston Jewish Film Festival
Defining “Jewish” is not terribly complicated; however, articulating Jewish identity (or any identity) can leave you running in...
Response: Picasso Black and White
Along with its exploration of Pablo Picasso’s lifelong engagement with monochrome and grisaille, Picasso Black and White at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, represents perhaps the most unsparing yet nuanced critical examination to date of the relationship between the Spanish master’s alleged misogyny and his seemingly [...]
New Play Contest
Seven local playwrights compete for a chance to win $1,000 cash in the annual New Play Competition produced for...