The Queen of Conflation
Marcelyn McNeil Blends the Rules in Lemonworld The seductive, curious paintings of Houston-based artist Marcelyn McNeil leave no room to doubt her commitment to a studio-based practice. Just ask painter Howard Sherman, a friend who often swaps studio visits with [...]
Read MoreReview: Selkie, A Sea Tale
The origin of a myth has its roots in the earth as much as the soul of a people. Thus, it makes sense that the legends of the half-human/half-seal Selkie creatures hark from the Northern British isles, a place where sea merges with land, and where sea has consumed the land. It’s no wonder then [...]
Read MoreReview: Tristan and Isolde
Can you bear the burden of love? With a love beginning in rapture, malice, bliss, and deception that finally eases into sweet death, Houston Grand Opera presents Wagner’s legendary Tristan and Isolde, with extraordinary attention to the emotional angst inherent in this opera. Tristan and Isolde marks the final repertory in HGO’s 2012-2013 season, with [...]
Read MoreReview: Quiver
Dance and film are joined by movement as camera and body come together. Frame Dance Productions’ newest offering, Quiver, makes the most of that fact. Frame Dance artistic director Lydia Hance navigates a dual career track, exploring both film and live performance, and the intersection of both. Quiver opens with an oscillating pulse of a [...]
Read MorePipe Dreams
Cameron Carpenter on the future of the Organ Virtuoso composer-performer Cameron Carpenter, one of the most accomplished organists working today, stops in Houston this month via Society for the Performing Arts. He has played the organ since an early age, but he did not come from a religious family, nor was he first exposed to [...]
Read MoreOrchestrating Change
Catching up with Mercury’s Antoine Plante It’s been almost a year since we sat down with Mercury’s artistic director Antoine Plante. Since then, the organization has re-branded, shifting from Mercury Baroque to Mercury-The Orchestra Redefined. A + C editor Nancy Wozny visited with Plante on his busy year of change. Arts + Culture: Any regrets [...]
Read MoreThe Met on the Move
Imagine a room full of dancers twisting, spinning and hurling themselves through the air with complete conviction. Place choreographer Peter Chu in a studio with The Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, add a tremendous amount of dedication and skill, and you are bound to have [...]
Read MoreMarching Orders
UH Mitchell Center Commissions Experimental Music Houston, get ready: A student marching band turned experimental musical cadre is poised to create free-form, funky, soulful, danceable rhythms at downtown’s Discovery Green later this month. This parade-gone-wild is the creation of world-renowned musician and composer Daniel [...]
Read MoreExperiential Experiments
Liz Magic Laser and Nora Chipaumire at DiverseWorks Presenting experimental, provocative, performance-driven work is nothing new for DiverseWorks, and this month is no different. On second thought, it’s quite different — at least in terms of what audiences may have [...]
Read MoreAfter All These Years
At 90, Miller Outdoor Theatre is still the Heart of Houston It would be hard to pick an arts venue more beloved in Houston than Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park. Rising up from its grassy hill in one of the city’s lushest oases, it’s a space that inevitably inspires warm feelings from both the [...]
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