Stepping into Joy: Performing Arts Houston’s lively 23/24 Season
Performing Arts Houston leans into joy for its recently announced 2023-2024 season.
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Epic Season at Houston Grand Opera Begins with Intelligence
Houston Grand Opera’s 2023-24 season is nothing short of epic. “We are producing some of the grandest and most mature artistic works in the repertoire all in one season,” says Khori Dastoor, HGO General Director and CEO. “Verdi’s last opera, Wagner’s last opera, late Mozart—these pieces are Mount Everest, each one of them.”
Expanding the Classical Ballet Canon Part II: Alexa Capareda’s Maria and the Mouse Deer
PART TWO: Think about classical ballet’s signature repertoire—The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella. Each of these canonic story ballets is drawn from a European folk tale or story, and set to music by a European composer. Is it time to ask, “what other stories can ballets tell?”
Houston Symphony Expands its Range with a New Director and Season
The Houston Symphony’s new music director, Juraj Valčuha, acknowledged that opening the season with a requiem may strike some as “a strange idea.” But Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is no ordinary setting of the mass for the dead.
Born a Yarn Spinner: Stanton Welch on Storytelling in Ballet
Houston Ballet’s Artistic Director Stanton Welch grew up around ballet.
Window to the World and Mirror to the Community: Performing Arts Houston New Season
Society for the Performing Arts is now Performing Arts Houston, but Meg Booth, chief executive officer, makes it clear that their mission to bring the world of music, dance, theater as well as cultural speakers to the city is still fundamental to who they are after 50 years.
The Third Time’s the Charm: Dance Salad Determined to Celebrate its 25th Year in Houston
“This is our third year trying to do our 25th year,” says Houston’s unofficial dance ambassador Nancy Henderek, whose annual springtime Dance Salad Festival (for reasons you can probably guess) took an unexpected hiatus in 2020 and again in 2021.
It all Happens in Houston: Houston Cinema Arts Festival Returns
“It’s Houston. Literally every single thing is happening, including filmmaking. Everything is happening in Houston.”
Houston’s Small Ensembles, Expansive Vistas Part One: Monarch Chamber Players, WindSync, and KINETIC
Houston is home to numerous chamber music ensembles that have thrived alongside each other, carving out their own niches with unique visions of how to present music and connect with audiences.
A Jerome Robbins Wonderland Comes to Houston
Houston gets a welcome blast of Robbins’ legendary work when Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) presents Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, a sweeping anthology of the American choreographer’s work all on one night.
Musical Story Lines: Houston Symphony’s New Season
A festival celebrating arch-Romantic composer Robert Schumann. Spotlights on Richard Strauss, master of orchestral tone-painting, and today’s John Adams. A pairing of dramatic but little-known choral works by Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler.
Houston Theater 2018: A Chat with Tarra Gaines
It was a big year on the Houston theater landscape. Most nights of the week ACTX’s trusted Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines can be found in a theater seat. Gaines visited with ACTX editor Nancy Wozny to sort out what happened on Houston stages in 2018.