Posts Tagged ‘houston’
Texas Ballet Theater Digs In
TBT has a new headquarters but still no live music.LEONARD EUREKA
It’s taken a while, but Texas Ballet Theater finally has quarters that allow it to rehearse in the same size space as the Bass Performance Hall stage, TBT’s main performing venue. The benefits were seen in season-opening pe...
Mao’s Last Dancer
TBT’s Ben Stevenson is a character in this rags-to-riches tale of Li Cunxin.LEONARD EUREKA
Mao’s Last Dancer is the ultimate rags to riches saga. The film is based on the life of dancer Li Cunxin. Born dirt-poor in a remote Chinese village, he made it halfway around the world by age 20 to become a principal dancer ...
Trans-Texas Corridor: One Head Gone, Others …
Static Well, the U.S. Department of Transportation, through the Federal Highway Administration’s Texas Division Office, has officially shut down plans for the Trans Texas Corridor-35, the huge roadway that Gov. Rick Perry drea...
Feet Fight
Big TicketIn a scheduling snafu, Texas Ballet Theater and Texas Dance Theater both open shows Friday. TBT revives its opulent, full-length Romeo and Juliet, created in 1987 for the Houston Ballet, with a four-performance run in Bass Perf...
Unnatural Appetites
Chow, BabyDid you know there are 2,847,632 restaurants in Tarrant County? Chow, Baby completely made that number up (obviously), but that’s what it seems like every August, when Chow, Baby and the Eats writers begin considering con...
James Gill’s “Marilyn Study”
GalleryPop Art lives again at Milan Gallery. The downtown venue hosts a show of paintings by James Gill, a contemporary of Andy Warhol’s. The San Angelo-based Gill has been in seclusion for several decades, but now he’s pr...
The Austin Biennial
KulturApplications for the third annual Texas Biennial are now available at www.texasbiennial.com. A group art show composed of open submissions, the biennial, if you haven’t already guessed, is grossly biased toward Austin, th...
High-Speed Solutions
The idea of passenger rail travel to major Texas cities picks up speed.DAN MCGRAW
Driving down to Austin lately has become a real trip.
Russo-America on Pointe
Big TicketIn a season-opening double-header, Metropolitan Classical Ballet has booked appearances in both Houston and Fort Worth this week.
TBT Comes to Life
KulturTexas Ballet Theater’s performances of Coppelia last weekend in Bass Performance Hall fulfilled a promise made several years ago.