The Great Outdoors: Electra at Dallas Theater Center
It’s the first day of rehearsals for Electra (April 4-May 2), and Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty is having trouble trading in Shakespeare for Sophocles.
Color into Sound: Loop38 at Turrell Skyspace
When soft twilight yields to clear night, the Turrell Skyspace at Rice University is illuminated with a continuous diffusion of colors that ebb and flow around the central opening to the darkening sky.
Small But Mighty: Fort Worth Opera Moves Forward With World Premiere
Belt-tightening is all too familiar in the arts, but it doesn’t mean a group’s vision has to fade away.
Design in Texas: Michelle Ney
In a Texas State University production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the only thing visible to the audience until the play began was a ghost light on the stage.
Painting the Town: The Dallas Art Fair Grows in Its Ninth Year
Chris Byrne and his co-founder, John Sughrue didn’t expect the Dallas Art Fair to grow like it has when they began the annual event nine years ago with 35 participants.
Haunted Melodies: Turn of the Screw at The Dallas Opera
Benjamin Britten’s opera Turn of the Screw, which first premiered in 1954, is not simply a retelling of the classic Henry James’ novella but rather a haunting exploration of the corruption of innocence, the supernatural and the descent into madness.
A Storied Snow White comes to Catastrophic Theatre
Once upon a time—a strange, tumultuous time called the 1960s—there lived a storyteller named Donald Barthelme.
On Her Own Terms: Melissa Cody at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
One of the funniest episodes of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm involves Larry David, aiming to score points with his love interest’s flamboyantly effeminate son Greg, buying the seven-year-old a sewing machine to the dismay of Greg’s mother, who hasn’t yet come to terms with her son’s likely sexuality.
Hiding in Plain Sites: CounterCurrent Artists Reveal Stories throughout Houston
In 2014, the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts blazed a trail into the world of festival programming.
SHOW UP: Robert Hodge
“The music has always been there, lingering in my presence,” said Robert Hodge, a Houston-based artist.
Monet to Matisse: A Century of French Moderns at the McNay
Artists—Americans, in some cases, expatriates in others—played key behind-the-scenes roles in helping to decide which European paintings and sculpture would comprise what became some of the great public collections in the United States.
Young & Outstanding: Houston’s WindSync & Kinetic Team Up
WindSync seems plenty youthful when you look at a photo, but let’s take another vantage point. The Houston quintet spends about 120 days a year on the road -- hardly the mark of a fledgling group.