REVIEW: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at 4th Wall Theatre
The great grand dame of hate-becomes-love stories Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice always held a current of social commentary beneath the surface of the glorious romance.
Catching up with North Texas Theater: A Conversation with Lindsey Wilson
Lindsey Wilson is hands down one of the most prolific theater writers in Texas.
REVIEW: Nicolas Moufarrege at the CAMH
The story of Nicolas Moufarrege is a sad one. Lost to the AIDS crisis in New York City at the age of 36, the artist had only been in practice for a decade and undoubtedly had much left to produce. Curated by Dean Daderko and on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through Feb. 17, 2019, Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is the first solo museum exhibition for Moufarrege.
REVIEW: Ghada Amer at Dallas Contemporary
Fingers hover over lips and breasts, hair cascades over and around faces, kisses are blown and shared, pleasure is given and received: Ghada Amer’s ceramic sculptures shiver with ecstatic encounter.
REVIEW: Ars Lyrica’s ‘Agrippina’
When Matthew Dirst was a graduate student in France, a splashy revival of a long-neglected 17th-century opera galvanized his love of baroque music.
Sci-Fi Theater: The Epic Adventure of ‘Panto Star Force’ at Stages
If you are familiar with a certain popular space franchise enjoying a reboot right now, you might see some similarities with this years Panto at Stages Repertory Theatre, which promises to take us to a galaxy far, far away.
Loop38 and Texas New Music Ensemble Stir up Houston’s Contemporary Music Scene
A pair of excellent new music concerts on the Houston calendar this month illuminated the distinct yet overlapping currents that shape the body of contemporary music.
Texas Lens: Ian Casady’s 20 years at Houston Ballet
Houston Ballet Principal Ian Casady will be honored for his twenty spectacular years with the company during the Margaret Alkek Williams Jubilee of Dance on Nov. 30 at the Wortham Center.
Life, Death and Healing: Hyde Park Theatre Partners with Catastrophic Theatre for Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey
In Obie Award-winning playwright Will Eno’s latest work, Wakey, Wakey, the endearingly befuddled Guy takes the audience along on a somewhat bumbling memorial journey through his life on the way to his death.
Avant Chamber Ballet’s Musical Season
Avant Chamber Ballet opens its seventh season with an ambitious collaboration with the Verdigris Ensemble for a stunning production of The Little Match Girl Passion, David Lang’s haunting choral adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “The Little Match Girl.”
Invoking the Body: Jasper Johns at Menil Drawing Institute
On view through Jan. 27, The Condition of Being Here at the newly-inaugurated Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) in Houston includes a selection of Jasper Johns’s drawings dating from 1954 to 2016, many of which get at the fragility of the body and its musings.
Dialogues Between Art and Music/Soundings: New Music at the Nasher
Listen to music in a roomful of visual art, and your eyes and ears may pick up parallels thanks to sheer serendipity.