Angels in Houston

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The celebrated American Ballet Theatre principal Angel Corella is one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers. His passion is now evident in his com­pany, Corella Ballet, making its Houston debut, presented by Society for Perform­ing Arts [...]
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New Notes: Composers in Houston

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Anthony Brandt thinks Houston is a composer’s city. Brandt, a professor of composition at Rice Uni­versity’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of Musiqa, a collec­tive of five composers, knows what he is talking about. [...]
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What’s Old is New Again

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John Johnson, known throughout Houston’s tight-knit stage commu­nity as “JJ,” is happy enough sharing the official motto of the troupe he founded, for which (as with his name) Classical Theatre Company [...]
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artiFACTS: April 2012

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With the addition of the tagline, “the orchestra redefined,” Mercury Baroque is changing its name to Mercury. The orchestra’s repertoire has expanded in recent seasons to include works outside of the Baroque era [...]
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Painting The Town RED

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Dallas Theater Center has announced its 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC’s 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC’s four-year Shakespeare cycle [...]
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Review: Gerardo R

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Gerardo R: Un Día a La Vez Start Gallery Dallas March 3–April 15, 2012 Terrible things are still happening in Mexico. Your preferred news organizations may not cover it anymore and you may not think of it often, but the drug cartel violence continues to claim the lives of our neighbors [...]
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Painting as Painting

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Dallas painter and post-medium practitioner Ludwig Schwarz loves a good glitch every now and then. “I am so glad you’re not recording me,” he said in response to the failures of the voice memos option on my iPhone. In self-deprecating fashion, he said, “I really don’t have anything [...]
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