Performing Words
Houston’s Reading Culture Ramps Up Stepping inside your local watering hole on a Friday night you might find it odd to stumble upon a live reading event, but if you have taken stock in Houston’s nighttime entertainment du jour, readings are all the rage, and they are not your grandmother’s [...]
Comforting Yet Alien
“Monopoly Houses” Suggest an Alternative to Houston’s Architectural Hodgepodge A handful of distinctive recently built houses might well...
Honeymoons on The Bayou
Conducting affairs with HTown’s Orchestras It’s finally official: After a three year search and on the eve of its Centennial Season, the Houston Symphony has named 35-year old conductor Adrés Orozco-Estrada as its next Music Director. Born in Columbia and trained in Vienna, Orozoco-Estrada hasn’t yet conducted most of the world’s [...]
Your February Gallery (P)review
Upcoming shows you’ll want to see and ongoing shows we’re glad we did By the time you read...
Art House Rules
Living and Working in the Same Space Do you love your work so much you’d move in with...
Gary Tinterow in His Own Words
MFAH Director Sees Expanded Campus as ‘Hub for All Things Cultural’ As Gary Tinterow heads into his second...
artiFACTS: February 2013
Houston Symphony President Robert A. Peiser and Executive Director and CEO Mark C. Hanson announced that the Orchestra has selected Colombian-born, Vienna-trained conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada as its next [...]
Editor’s Remarks: February 2013
One of the few perks of being older is that I can truly say I remember the Houston...
Review: Wittenberg
Stages Repertory Theatre’s rendering of David Davalos’s delightfully quirky Wittenberg may be the one show in Houston you shouldn’t miss. As director Josh Morrison says in his program note, “I would love audiences to experience a debate of faith versus reason in a witty, fun [...]
