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We have a performance by drummer Sebastian Whittaker and his Quintet! They treat us to some tasty straight-ahead jazz, in anticipation of their show tomorrow night at Cézanne... |
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The Front Row - Theatre District Open House Our countdown to the 17th Annual Houston Theater District Open House continues, as Choreographer and Artistic Director, Dominic Walsh, joins us to talk about the new season of contemporary ballet he's planned for his Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre and early-music specialist, Matthew Dirst, previews the concerts to be presented over the course of the next nine months by his ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston. Both of those groups are partners in the Uniquely Houston Series at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row - Houston Young Artist's Concerts We meet Japan's most popular hand-flutist, Mitsuhiro Mori, and pianist, Keisuke Usuda, two of the guest artists invited by the Houston Young Artist's Concerts to come to the United States to play on the program, East Meets West, this evening at Rice University... |
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The Front Row - Houston Fringe Festival Artistic Directors Rebecca French and Robert Thoth, alternative-hip-hop song-writer Dug Falk and CORE Performance Company dancer, Blake Dalton talk about the opening program of this year's Houston Fringe Festival, presented by FrenetiCore... |
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The Front Row - Theatre District Open House Artistic Director Gregory Boyd describes some of the Pulitzer-Prize and Tony-Award-winning plays, world premieres, comedies and psychological thrillers that he's programmed for the Alley Theatre's upcoming season! The Alley is one of the nine major performing-arts organizations that will host downtown Houston's 17th annual Theater District Open House... |
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The Front Row - Cantare Houston Artistic Director Kevin Riehle talks about Cantare Houston's weekend Walking Concerts at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, which pair guided tours through the museum's galleries with live performances of choral pieces that date from the same eras as the artworks on display... |
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The Front Row - Theatre District Open House Today, our run-up to this year's Theater District Open House continues with a preview of the Houston Symphony's new season! Senior Director of Artistic Planning, Aurelie Desmarais, shares with us some of the exciting guest conductors, soloists and major works planned for the Orchestra's 2010-2011 Classical Series... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Dr. Louis A. Markos, Professor of English at Houston Baptist University, discusses why larger-then-life literary figures -- both the authors themselves and their fictional creations -- seem historically to come to early and tragic ends. It's a preview of the talk on the Byronic Hero that he'll give as this month's Artful Thursday event tomorrow evening at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
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And Houston jazz vocalist and saxophonist, David Caceres, plays tracks from his latest CD, Reflections, previewing the kinds of grooves that he and his quartet will be laying down Friday night at Cézanne... |
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The Front Row - Hope Stone Dance Hope Stone Dance Artistic Director, Jane Weiner, the newest member of the company, Courtney Jones and Houston Ballet's Melody Herrera tell us what's on the bill for the second weekend of Lemonade Stand, Hope Stone's summer festival of contemporary dance... |
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The Front Row - Theatre District Open House Today in the second of our interviews leading up to this year's Houston Theater District Open House, Fran Macferran, President of the Hobby Center, talks about the hit shows the Broadway Across America Series is bringing to the Bayou City this season, including Shrek the Musical and Billy Elliott... |
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The Front Row - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston At the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curator Jenelle Porter shows us an exhibition of photographs, movies and videos, which incorporate dance in such a way that a screening or viewing of each image or film constitutes a performance of the choreographic work, in and of itself... |
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Comedienne Paula Poundstone goes off on some of the personal and public issues that are on her mind these days. Ms. Poundstone, a regular panelist on NPR's hit quiz show, Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me performs live, Saturday night at the Alley Theatre... |
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The Front Row - Landmark Riveroaks Theatre Today, we talk with former Houston Ballet Principal Dancer, Li Cunxin. The dramatic story of his life has been made into a major motion picture, Mao's Last Dancer... |
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The Front Row - Theatre District Open House We begin our run-up to this year's Houston Theater District Open House with our annual State of the Arts conversation with Andrew Huang, President of the Downtown Alliance... |
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The Front Row - Purple Songs Can Fly We welcome musicians from the Purple Songs Can Fly Project to the Geary Performance Studio. Artistic Director, pianist and composer, Anita Kruse and singer/song-writers, Aaron Kaufman and Tricia Fox, treat us to some of their original songs, in between bits of conversation about their inspiring program that gives youngsters being treated at the Texas Children's Cancer Center a chance to express themselves through music... |
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The Front Row - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Today, we introduce you to one of the city's newest drama troupes, The Midnight Theatre Company. Its latest production, running this weekend only at the Midtown Arts Center, is entitled, The Brush... |
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The Pamela York Trio transforms KUHF's Geary Performance Studio into a jazz club! Pianist Pamela York, bassist Anthony Caceres and drummer Sebastian Whittaker treat us to a sample of the swinging sounds they'll be putting out tomorrow night at Cezanne... |
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The Front Row - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft We take a look at imaginative, hand-made art dolls which are sculpted from materials as diverse as clay, wood and fiber by members of the Texas Association of Original Doll Artists. President Janet Bodin and Houston doll-maker, Neva Waldt, show us around the new exhibition, Dolls Now, on view at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition Today, We sample the contents of a new Albany Compact Disc containing five of original works for small ensemble by Rice University faculty composer, Karim Al-Zand. |
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We offer the final installment in our mini-series of studio performances by the sophisticated ladies who are currently practicing the fine art of cabaret at the Bayou City's Bistro Calais restaurant. Sharon Montgomery sings intimate jazz standards of love, found and lost ... plus one number that's so Texas, you can practically smell the cattle and the horses... |
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The Front Row - Hope Stone Dance Artistic Director Jane Weiner shows us the way to her Lemonade Stand, the "tart and tasty" three-weekend-long festival of contemporary dance that she and her company, Hope Stone Dance, present, starting Thursday, at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex, downtown... |
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The Front Row - Archway Gallery Houston artist, Mary L. Davis, talks about how she creates paintings of power, energy and passion using only four colors: white, gray, black and a shade of red that looks, for all the world, like dried blood... |
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The Front Row - Houston International Jazz Festival Meet Tito Puente, Jr. ... percussionist, singer, bandleader ... and son of Tito Puente, Sr., the legendary Mambo King of the 1950's! The 20th annual Houston International Jazz Festival takes place this weekend at Downtown's Discovery Green Park |
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Alley Theatre Artistic Director, Gregory Boyd, gives us the background on this week's Big Story in the Bayou City arts community. Wonderland, the musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland that Boyd co-wrote with composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Jack Murphy, is going to Broadway! |
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In the second of our studio sessions showcasing the three talented singers who are cultivating the art of cabaret with their weekly appearances at Houston's Bistro Calais, Deborah Boily sings a pair of sophisticated French chansons ... and an equal number of truly Texas tunes... |
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The Front Row - Murder by the Book Ridley Pearson, called "the best thriller writer alive," talks about his latest crime novel, In Harm's Way, which brings together the central characters from both of his popular book series: Sun Valley, Idaho, sheriff, Walt Fleming ... and Seattle homicide detective sergeant, Lou Boldt ... each of whom has a dead body on his hands... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition Independent Houston composer and keyboardist, Michael Vackar, talks about his C.D., Anodyne, and he shares tracks from this collection of original piano pieces... |
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The Front Row - Gift Of Gift Of We introduce you to Gift Of Gift Of, a new organization dedicated to supporting emerging artists and encouraging arts patronage. At its inaugural event, Saturday evening at the Next Wall Gallery, attendees are invited to vote on their favorite works from an exhibition of photographs by fourteen local and national artists, and the winning pieces will then be donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston... |
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The Front Row - Special Edition Acclaimed American writer John Irving, author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, speaks with us about his latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River, the saga of a 12 year-old-boy and his father who are fugitives from the law because of a tragic mistake made by the youngster... |
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Vocalist Kayce Glasse, accompanied by pianist Jerry Atwood, shares a few of the numbers from her eclectic repertoire of standards, jazz, pop and Patsy Cline tunes... |
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The Front Row - Angelika Film Center We chat with writer Chris Greenhalj, whose first novel and screen-play, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, imagine the dynamics of the short-lived but intense love-affair that apparently actually did flare up in the summer of 1920 between the early 20th century's most innovative fashion designer and its most iconoclastic composer. The movie version of Coco and Igor opens today at the River Oaks Cinema... |
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The Front Row - Houston Shakespeare Festival Director Sidney Berger (pictured), founder of the Houston Shakespeare Festival - and actress Celeste Roberts, who plays the argumentative lover, Beatrice - talk about the Festival's new production of Much Ado About Nothing, which opens tomorrow night... |
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Tenor Gabriel Gonzalez, with the assistance of pianist Omar Herrera-Arizmendi, performs songs by Mexican composer, Manuel Ponce. Gonzalez of Monterrey, Mexico, is participating in a residency, Voices Uniting Cultures, at Houston's MECA community center... |
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The Front Row - Houston Shakespeare Festival We celebrate the opening of this year's Houston Shakespeare Festival. Director Carolyn Houston Boone and actor Paul Hope talk about A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the two comedies being presented at this year's Festival... |
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The Front Row - Blue Bamboo Jazz Festival Jazz vocalist and guitarist Chris Cortez, founder of the record label, Blue Bamboo Music; along with bassist Glen Ackerman and other members of Chris's Band, the Bamboo Philharmonic, perform for us... |
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The Front Row - Houston Area Parkinson society We offer an advance look at a benefit concert that's coming up this weekend here in the Bayou City. Singers Patti and Ramon Rabaza and Julia K. Laskowski (pictured) sample the eclectic array of opera arias and duets, Broadway show tunes, pop hits and timeless classics from the Patsy Cline songbook that make up the playlist for their show, A Grand Night for Dreaming... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston We look at images by Ishimoto Yasuhiro, one of the most influential figures in post-World-War-II Japanese photography. His celebrated photos of the 17th-Century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto are currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in the exhibition, Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture... |
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The Front Row - Pink Ribbons Project We preview Bald in the Land of Big Hair, a one-woman show based on the memoir of the same title by Houston author and cancer survivor, Joni Rodgers. Rodgers tells us her poignant and, at times, funny story ... and actress Lisa Hamilton, who adapted the narrative as a performance piece, treats us to an excerpt from her stage version. |
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The Front Row - The Blue Bamboo Jazz Festival Jazz vocalist Tianna Hall, guitarist Mike Wheeler and cellist Lisa Vosdoganes get together in the Geary Performance Studio to preview The Blue Bamboo Jazz Festival. |
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The Front Row - Wade Wilson ART Visual artist Harold Garde, best known for his investigations of the human form and for simultaneously blending the serious and the whimsical in his imagery, talks about his latest paintings at the Wade Wilson Art gallery. |
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The Front Row - Janet Evanovich Mega best-selling author Janet Evanovich talks about Sizzling Sixteen, her newest romantic-adventure novel featuring bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. |
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The Front Row - Murder by the Book Writer Daniel Silva talks about his latest continent-hopping adventure thriller, he Rembrandt Affair, which packs together into one story, the theft of a priceless portrait by Rembrandt, a brutal murder and the strategically crucial problem of greedy industrialists, arms dealers and governments providing assistance to Iran in its effort to develop nuclear weapons. |
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The Front Row - Stages Repertory Theatre Cast members from Stages Repertory Theatre's summer musical, The Marvelous Wonderettes, perform some of the great girl-group jukebox hits of the late Fifties and early Sixties that make up the score of this toe-tapping, nostalgia-tinged show... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Grammy-Award-winning conductor, Arnie Roth, chats with Chris Johnson about the music that Japanese composer, Nobuo Uematsu, wrote for the popular Final Fantasy video games, as he previews Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy... |
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The Front Row - Just a Few Feet Away Writer S. Denise O'Neal and actors from her company, Shabach Enterprise, chat about their production of her newest play, Just a Few Feet Away, described as "a cross between the movies, Crash and Six Degrees of Separation." |
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The Front Row - Theatre Southwest Artistic Director, Mimi Holloway; playwright, Carl L. Williams; and director, Lisa Schofield chat about Theatre Southwest's 13th Annual Festival of Originals, which showcases five, never-before-seen-in-Houston, one-act plays, selected from scripts that came in from all over the world! |
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The Front Row - Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Orchestra director and trumpeter, Brett Barlow, and keyboardist Tom McDonough from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, perform music from Zing, Zang, Zoom! the latest edition of "The Greatest Show on Earth," running through this weekend at Houston's Reliant Stadium... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Dr. Robert Ritner of The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago discusses both the aesthetic and religious-mystical aspects of the ancient Egyptian art objects in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. That's the topic of the illustrated talk he'll give on this week's Artful Thursday event, tomorrow evening at the MFAH.... |
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The Front Row - American Festival for the Arts Composer Michael Remson, conductor Clifton Evans, Choral Director, Lynne Gackle and Ballet Mistress, Shelly Power, tell us about the series of concerts that begin tonight and conclude the fifteenth annual American Festival for the Arts' 2010 Summer Music Conservatory... |
