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Alive & Well
It’s a new era for the Houston Symphony. When Maestro Andrés Orozoco-Estrada mounts the podium this month to conduct a program featuring music by Sergei Rachmaninov,
Prone to Roam
Artists are leaving Texas, and for good reason. Touring equals two important things for the state's performing artists: unprecedented exposure and a chance to get off the island. An invitation to perform on the road carries with it a certain cachet, elevating an artist’s hometown reputation and expectations.
“Every Art Lover’s Gateway Drug”
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is marking its 65th anniversary with Outside the Lines, a six-part exhibition presented in two rounds that will fill both of CAMH’s floors
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Diavolo dancers performing Trajectoire. Photo by Angela weiss. AUSTIN The Agony and the Ecstasy of...
Stephen Lapthisophon: Sphere
In 22 mixed-media works on paper on view at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Stephen Lapthisophon invites viewers to...
Distribution
A sampling of places in Texas you can find Arts & Culture Magazine: ACTX DISTRIBUTION LIST – last...
TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition
With 13 curators and about 70 artists, the TX 13 Group Survey Exhibition is a cacophony of sounds, images and styles that tries for the first time to jam all the artists selected in a statewide open call for the Texas Biennial into a single space — the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum.
Playing With Words
For lovers of Shakespeare and Molière, Ibsen and Chekhov, Miller and Williams, declaring our time a new Golden Age of the playwright might seem delusional, or at best, a flourish of hyperbole from some theater’s marketing department. But if you ask the artistic directors of some of the most respected ensembles in Texas, they’ll assure you such claims are hardly ridiculous.
The Lone Star State en Pointe
No, ballet wasn’t born in Texas. But, in accord with the proverbial Law of Attraction, it got here as fast as it could.
Since the arrival of a troupe of traveling Russians during a time when even Hollywood movies were still, literally, finding their voice, the art and practice of ballet has been nurtured by Texans, who support not one, but three multi-million-dollar-budget ballet companies, and a host of smaller, but no less notable, organizations.
Undermain at 30
The logo of the Undermain Theatre adorns a sandwich board at the edge of the Deep Ellum neighborhood in Dallas. The lone black and yellow marker beckons curious theatergoers to venture below Main Street for shows they can't see anywhere else.
Undermain Theatre celebrates its 30th year with a lineup of three brand new plays, continuing its lifelong commitment to presenting original plays that challenge audiences. Whether it's an edgy new work by David Rabe or a scintillating production of August Strindberg or Harold Pinter, the consistently high quality of work at the Undermain Theatre is unrivaled in the local scene.
Space Painting
Jessica Lang paints movements in broad strokes, making her one of the most visually exciting choreographers in the dance world.
Houston's Society of Performing Arts presents Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) on Sept. 20, following the TITAS presentation in Dallas on Sept. 14.