Performing Arts

One 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 Alegría Hudes’s acclaimed Elliot Trilogy. Toge…

It still feels very much like February outside, but SOLUNA 2020 is set to heat things up in Dallas this spring. With a lineup that includes Grammy Award-winning alt-rock band The Flaming Lips in collaboration with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, this wi…

We don’t want to spoil the ending, but Romeo and Juliet is the timeless tale of tragic love for good reason. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is revisiting the legendary romance just in time for Valentine’s Day. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet will be perf…

A last-minute potential disaster turned into an all-out coup after Houston Grand Opera contacted talented tenor Michael Spyres to substitute for ailing Lawrence Brownlee in a performance of Donizetti’s La Favorite last Sunday. On short notice, Spyres r…

WASHINGTON 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…

Stepping 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…

When 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 …

It’s not your typical day in Houston — nor in Texas for that matter, at least not for the performing arts. It’s little more than a week away from the opening a new theater complex, one that comes with considerable architectural swagger, matched with it…

When 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…

Streisand, 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…