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Dance
New dance company Open Dance Project debuts with a focus on the marathon craze of the Roaring Twenties
10/05/2015 By Adam Castañeda
Opera
A behind-the-seams look at HGO's costume department
09/24/2015 By Sydney Boyd
HGOco premieres O Columbia, the first of three Houston-themed operas.
09/18/2015 By Jenn Nguyen
HGO composer Gregory Spears talks his latest piece O Columbia, a tale of discovery and wonderment.
09/15/2015 By Sydney Boyd
Picks
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company performs at Wortham, Houston Fine Art Fair returns to NRG Park, HGO previews its new season with its Studio Showcase, Joshua Bell plays with the Symphony, and Ars Lyrica presents Autumn Hunt
09/09/2015 By Nick Esquer
HGO offers forthcoming highlights from new season with Studio Showcase.
09/01/2015 By Jenn Nguyen
NobleMotion set to showcase works both new and old with Storm Front.
08/21/2015 By Adam Castañeda
Museum News
Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection, leaves Houston for Switzerland's Kunstmuseum Basel.
06/30/2015 Edited by Nick Esquer
opera
Houston Grand Opera's production of the Stephen Sondheim classic captures the musical's humor, but misses the menace.
04/27/2015 By Sydney Boyd
Houston audience members were right to walk out on insipid new opera inspired by the Dickens classic.
12/08/2014 By Sydney Boyd
Classic Mozart opera buffa features fine ensemble singing but lacks brio.
11/04/2014 By Sydney Boyd
Verdi's classic opera brought to thunderous life in a bravura production
10/27/2014 By Sydney Boyd
dance
Everyone gets to be a choreographer in Houston dance troupe's new show. That's not a good thing.
08/28/2014 By Theodore Bale
picks
Where to go, who to see, and what to do
08/27/2014 By Michael Hardy
The tech-savvy company's new production wrestles with the ideas of time and space.
08/25/2014 By Adam Castañeda
Despite strong vocal performances, opera missing Bizet's original fire
04/28/2014 By Sydney Boyd
Masterful new production features world-class singing, astonishing visual effects, and innovative staging.
04/14/2014 By Michael Hardy
Inside a technical rehearsal for the Houston Grand Opera's daring new production of the Ring Cycle.
04/10/2014 By Michael Hardy
In the HGO’s A Coffin in Egypt, a once-retired opera legend returns to the stage.
03/03/2014 By Michael Hardy
FrenetiCore's Rite of Summer pays homage to original 1913 Nijinsky/Stravinsky ballet
08/30/2013 By Alese Pickering