Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
A show comprised of real-life interviews with COVID first responders while we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic. Sounds like theatrical redundancy. After all, aren’t we already taken into the belly of the emergency response beast via the embe…
Read MoreTheaters are liberally minded organizations that wish to be welcoming spaces where people of all races can participate in the power of live performance. Theaters are also spaces where racism happens. Shocked by this dichotomy? You wouldn’t be if you we…
Read MoreBack in March, as shows were canceled and stages went dark, I spoke with three Houston actors to get a sense of how they were coping with the Coronavirus shutdown financially, emotionally, and artistically. At the conclusion of each interview, I asked …
Read MoreThe bad news came on May 5 – an email from the Houston Arts Alliance informing theater companies that, due to the negative economic impact of COVID 19, the grant money they’d been promised would be reduced going forward. By 6 percent for the first quar…
Read MoreActors are shapeshifters by profession. For a role they’re at times called upon gain/lose weight, wear prosthetic makeup and, of course, cut their hair, grow their hair, dye their hair or hide their own hair under a wig. In other words, they’re used to…
Read MoreAttention sports fans! Attention theater fans! Attention anyone looking for a competitive but friendly way to fill their isolation time. Cone Man Running Productions is here to scratch your itch with its bracketed War of the Words playwrighting competi…
Read MoreAll across Houston, high school teachers are scrambling to teach lessons online, figuring out how best to translate their curriculum to the virtual world. With subjects like math, English, and history, some of this new learning can come from self-study…
Read MoreCostume Designer Donna Southern Schmidt was thinking way ahead of most Houstonians when she decided to grab a bunch of leftover materials and take them into isolation with her as the stay at home order hit Houston. Social media connections with fellow …
Read More“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?” Leave it to Kurt Vonnegut to unintentionally describe our different reactions/realities when it comes to dealing with global problems such as coronavirus. But what about th…
Read MoreAlmost immediately upon learning of the temporary theater closures across the United States due to coronavirus, it seemed as though every critic in America began filing stories detailing the ways audiences could stream plays and musicals online. Want t…
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