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Every generation births a new set of brazen artists who hope not just to create but to change the world with those creations. Yet across time and cultures very few have sought political and societal revolution via polyurethane foam foot-shaped lounge c…
Read MoreOn stage, war stories are about as ancient as drama itself, but peace stories, those tales of the rages and sacrifices that a lasting truce between enemies requires, that drama rarely finds its place in the theater spotlight. So leave it to Lawrence Wr…
Read MoreOne playwright, three plays, three theater companies, one character, two actors. That’s the equation for the unprecedented loose alliance of Houston theaters collaborating to produce the entirety of Quiara AlegrĂa Hudes’s acclaimed Elliot Trilogy. Toge…
Read MoreWASHINGTON D.C. — Twenty five years ago, classic story ballet had its own black swan event with the debut of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Set traditionally to Tchaikovsky’s haunting and tragic score, Bourne deconstructed the well-known fairytale of a be…
Read MoreStepping into the Alley Theatre’s Hubbard space for the regional premiere of Quixote Nuevo, we find a mostly bare stage but for a set of small houses of Spanish-American influence in the distance. Yet scenic designer Takeshi Kata and lighting des…
Read MoreWhen opera superstar Lawrence Brownlee last took the Wortham Center stage in early 2019 for the Houston Grand Opera production of The Pearl Fishers, he noticed something special and wonderful about the casting. “I looked around and saw how diverse the …
Read MoreThis is the second part in a two part series on Texan Stephanie Wittels Wachs and the Lemonada Media podcast network. To read part one on the overdose death of Wachs’ comic genius brother and everything it triggered, click here. For a podcast net…
Read MoreWhen local actor, stage director, entrepreneur and educator Stephanie Wittels Wachs lost her brother to a heroin overdose, she quit her teaching position at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and co-founded a theater company…
Read MoreStreisand, Channing, Merman, Midler, Peters and Buckley, such goes the list of the mega stars who have played one of the most iconic characters of stage and screen, Dolly Gallagher Levi. The queen bee, widowed matchmaker, who sets out to find her own l…
Read MoreLuxury and eccentricities. Those might not be two qualities travelers can often find in one place, but during a fall four day trip to Nevada, I discovered for pure splendrous weirdness, for lux-centricity, perhaps no place beats Reno/Lake Tahoe. With a…
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