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In collusion with those daring imposters, The Yes Men, we propose outlandish solutions to various technological, societal and political problems while poking holes in the assumptions of corporate and governmental thinking. The exploits of The Yes Men are the subject of the current exhibition at DiverseWorks... |
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The Front Row - Zoya Shuhatovich Russian-born Houston pianist, Zoya Shuhatovich, shares tracks from her brand-new CD, recorded in KUHF’s Geary Performance Studio; it contains Ms. Shuhatovoch’s latest interpretations of pieces by Schubert, Chopin and Mussorgsky... |
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We take a look at the one remaining FotoFest-associated exhibition that’s still up and available for viewing: Talento Bilingüe de Houston presents Opus Autonomía: Latino Photography of Houston... |
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The Front Row - American Harp Society We hear harpist Paul Page in recital with colleagues from the Houston Symphony. She'll be joining her friends from the orchestra once again for a recital of music for harp , flute and viola... |
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The Front Row - Houston Ballet Former prima ballerina, Merrill Ashley, the artist known as “George Balanchine’s Muse,” describes the process of re-staging a piece Mr. Balanchine created for her. Ballo della Regina - The Queen’s Ball is part of Houston Ballet’s Spring Mixed-Repertory Program, which opens Thursday at the Wortham Center... |
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Former Houstonian, jazz diva, Kellye Gray, performs live for us, previewing her sets tonight and tomorrow evening at the Montrose-area jazz club, Cézanne... |
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The Front Row - Indo-American Association We have a studio performance by two dancers who come from completely different cultural traditions, but who have discovered that they share a profound spiritual and aesthetic connection through their art. Pandit Chitresh Das, master of the classical style of Indian dance called “Kathak”, and Jason Samuels Smith, known as “The World’s Fastest Tap-Dancer” trade steps and rhythms, just as they’ll be doing in their live stage show, India Jazz Suites, tonight at the Wortham Center.. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today we chat with Houston Symphony Music Director, Hans Graf, and one of the world’s great pianists, Garrick Ohlsson about this weekend’s Houston Symphony Classical Series Concerts, which conclude the Orchestra’s season with two blockbuster pieces: Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring... |
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The Front Row - Divas World Productions Composer Beverly Grigsby and tenor Kenneth Gayle (pictured) share portions of Dr. Grigsby’s chamber opera, Fragments from Augustine the Saint, which Gayle will perform tonight and tomorrow evening at the Rothko Chapel... |
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The Front Row - Unhinged Productions Joe Angel Babb, the Artistic Director of Unhinged Productions, and actress Jay Mays talk about Uncivil Unions, Babb’s original piece based on the life-experiences of real people who offer their perspectives on the national debate over the issue of same-sex marriage... |
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The Front Row - United Nations Association International Choir Eric Esparza, and members of the United Nations Association International Choir perform for us, previewing their spring concert, WorldSong, which includes sacred and secular works from each of the planet’s six inhabited continents... |
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The Front Row - The Art Music Collective Singers from The Art Music Collective perform for us! They’re joined by producer Richard White, who introduces us to this new group of professional vocalists and their debut concert, a pre-Memorial Day tribute, scheduled for this Saturday evening at Saint Matthew’s United Methodist Church... |
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The Front Row - Main Street Theater Director Rebecca Greene Udden and actor Philip Lehl share insights into Main Street Theater’s staging of Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s time-traveling farce about the death of the universe... |
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The Front Row - Houston Grand Opera Soprano Cynthia Clayton and baritone Hector Vásquez talk about taking over the lead roles in Houston Grand Opera’s production of Tosca, a re-worked version of which will be presented Friday and Saturday night at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park... |
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The Front Row - Catastrophic Theatre Artistic Director Jason Nodler and cast member Greg Dean talk about Wallace Shawnâs The Designated Mourner, a play that covers the subjects of art and love, hurt and alienation, and politics, power and violence, currently being presented by The Catastrophic Theatre... |
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Moores School of Music faculty composer Marcus Karl Maroney and percussionists Blake Wilkins, Craig Hauschildt and Alec Warren perform works from Musiqa's Thursday evening Loft Concert at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, presented in conjunction with the new exhibition, Hand Plus Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft... |
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Artistic Director Emily Hynds and participating writer-actors, Jennifer Doctorovich and Will Morgan, preview the Third Annual Houston Fringe Festival presented by Bootown. It offers a four-day mix of brand-new and experimental theater, film, performance art, music, dance and puppetry, beginning tomorrow night... |
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The Front Row - Museum of Fine Arts Houston And Sarah Cash, Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., takes us on a tour of the traveling exhibition Sargent and the Sea... |
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Artistic Director Jeanette Clift George and actors Christy Watkins and Chip Simmons discuss A. D. Players’ production of Lillian Hellman’s intense psychological drama, The Little Foxes... |
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The Front Row - Society for the Performing Arts We meet Latin Grammy-winning tango pianist, Pablo Ziegler, and his bandoneón-playing partner, Hector del Curto, who talk about the performance Mr. Ziegler’s Quintet for New Tango will give this evening at Miller Outdoor Theatre, presented by Society for the Performing Arts... |
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The Front Row - KUHF Silent Film Concert Series Musicians from Austinâs Golden Hornet Project perform excerpts from their original score for the 1925 adventure film, The Lost World, which KUHF will screen tonight on its Silent Movie Concert Series at Discovery Green Park... |
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The Front Row - Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble Bayou-City choreographer Michele Brangwen and New York jazz composer and bassist Rufus Reid preview their new work, Caress the Thought. And, jazz trumpeter Tim Hagans also chats about his collaboration with Ms. Brangwen entitled, This Belongs in the Garage. The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble premieres both pieces Sunday at the Barnevelder Theater... |
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The Front Row - Houston Museum of African-American Culture We chat with Tony-Award-winning playwright and actress Sarah Jones; she and her contingent of ethnically-diverse fictional friends will share their thoughts about relations between the races, tomorrow night at Rice University’s Hamman Hall, in an event sponsored by Houston’s new Museum of African-American Culture... |
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The Front Row - Stages Repertory Theatre We chat with actress Denise Fennell, who stars as “Sister” in ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Late-Nite Catechism 3.... |
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The Front Row - Divas World Productions Divas World Productions, the Houston-based presenter of intimate chamber-music recitals, has announced that Delfeayo Marsalis, the trombone-playing younger brother of trumpeter Wynton and sax-man, Branford Marsalis has accepted the organization’s invitation to join it as Director of Jazz... |
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The Front Row - Mercury Baroque Houston's Mercury Baroque presents Classical in the Raw. It's a program that compares period-instrument performances of Mozartâs Next-to-Last Symphony and Beethovenâs First. Artistic Director Antoine Plante and a quintet of Mercury Baroque string players treat us to excerpts from that program... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews this week’s Houston Symphony concerts, featuring Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Poulenc’s Gloria and Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony... |
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The Front Row - Blue Willow Bookshop New York Times best-selling author, Elizabeth Berg - who appears in person this evening at Houstonâs Blue Willow Bookshop - talks about her new novel, The Last Time I Saw You, the story of a group of men and women who re-connect with each other, and with themselves, at their fortieth high school reunion... |
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The Front Row - Texas Repertory Theatre Company Director Craig Miller and actors Glenn Spencer and Lauren Dolk chat about the classic French sex-farce, A Flea in Her Ear, currently being presented in a high-energy English adaptation by the Texas Repertory Theatre Company... |
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The Front Row - Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival Clarinetist and Artistic Director Håkan Rosengren, violinist Jorja Fleezanis, and pianist Phillip Bush treat us to live performances of pieces by Beethoven and Stravinsky, previewing the music-making that will be taking place this weekend at the 4th annual Chamber Music Festival in Fayetteville, Texas... |
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The Front Row - Masquerade Theatre Three members of Masquerade Theatre’s resident company introduce us to another debut production. They perform songs from the newly-revised version of Paul Gordon and John Caird’s musical-theater adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s timeless novel, Jane Eyre... |
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The Front Row - Psophonia Dance Company Choreographers, Sophia L. Torres and Sonia Noriega of the Psophonia Dance Company, tell us about Squeeze A Little Harder, the “saucy little burlesque” that they’ll première Friday and Saturday at the Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex. It’s a program of contemporary dance that looks at the ways in which the art of seduction has been appropriated for the business of enticing consumers to buy more and more STUFF... |
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The Front Row - Grand 1894 Opera House Actress Holland Taylor, known to many for her recurring role as Evelyn Harper on the T.V. series, |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/05/2010 We delve into Heavy Metal - no, not the loudest, most aggressive sub-category of rock music, but the amazingly creative hand-made objects fashioned out of IRON that are currently on display at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in its exhibition, Forged, Tempered, Quenched... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/10/2010 Singers Grace Givens and Kelly Burnett perform both well-known and unfamiliar songs by early twentieth-century American tunesmith, Vincent Youmans, sampling the cabaret evening titled, Tea for Two, that Bayou City Concert Musicals presents tonight and next Monday evening at The Ensemble Theatre... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/10/2010 We talk with the Artistic Directors of Houston’s two newest contemporary dance companies. Toni Leago Valle’s Six Degrees of Dance and Amy Ell’s group, Vault, make their debuts together this coming weekend with pieces look at the fears and tendencies toward inertia that keep people from achieving the lives they dream of... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 05/07/2010 Today, we meet actor-singers, Kara Lindsay and Kevin Massey, who play the budding young writer, Laura Ingalls, and her future husband, Almanzo Wilder, in the national-touring production of Little House on the Prairie - The Musical, being presented at the Hobby Center through Sunday only, by Theatre Under The Stars... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 05/06/2010 Bayou-City-based classical guitarist, Valerie Hartzell, performs for us, previewing the recital that she and guest artist, Jonathan Dotson, will present tomorrow evening at the University of Houston, benefitting this summer's Classical Minds Guitar Festival and Competition at the Moores School of Music... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 07/29/2009 Artistic Director Dominic Walsh (pictured) and Czech choreographer, Václav Kunes talk about the U-S Première of Small Hour. The piece will be performed by the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre on the ensemble’s season-finale mixed-repertory program this weekend at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 05/04/2010 Artistic Director Matthew Dirst previews … and shares musical excerpts from George Frideric Handel’s joyous cantata, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno. It’s the featured work on the concert, Roman Holiday, to be given by the early-music ensemble, Ars Lyrica Houston, Sunday afternoon at the Hobby Center... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 05/03/2010 Today, acclaimed soprano, Laura Claycomb, who’s currently starring in Houston Grand Opera’s production of Handel’s Xerxes, joins Bayou City pianist Keith Weber in KUHF’s Geary Studio to perform art-songs by French and Spanish composers, previewing the recital the two of them will give next Sunday evening to benefit the Bridges Academy of Fine Arts at Saint Luke’s United Methodist Church... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 04/30/2010 Actors James Black (pictured) and Kristine Nielsen talk about their roles in the Alley Theatre’s new production of Mary Chase’s beloved and poignant comedy about Elwood P. Dowd, the gentle eccentric whose days are spent in the company of his best friend, an invisible, six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 04/29/2010 Today, soprano, Laura Claycomb, and counter-tenor, David Daniels, preview Houston Grand Opera's production of Handel's Xerxes, which opens tomorrow night at the Wortham Center... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/28/2010 Choreographers Joe Celejv and Kiki Lucas tell us about the contemporary dance pieces they’ve contributed to the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s National Dance Week program, Mixing It Up, Again!... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 04/27/2010 Curator Nancy Matthews describes the Museum of Fine Arts Houston exhibition, Prendergast in Italy, which showcases the work of the American Post-Impressionist artist, Maurice Prendergast... |
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The Front Row, Monday, 04/26/2010 Today, we chat with Eugene Drucker, one of the violinists with the Emerson String Quartet. Drucker tells us about the all-Czech program that the Emersons will perform for the Houston Friends of Chamber Music, tomorrow evening at Rice University... |
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The Front Row, Friday, 04/23/2010 Israeli folk-singer, David Broza, pays tribute to a Texas music legend. David has created original musical settings for some of the unpublished lyrics and poems of the late, great, Townes Van Zandt, and he’ll perform them on his Writers in the Round benefit concert, tomorrow night at Main Street Theater’s Chelsea Market playhouse... |
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The Front Row, Thursday, 14/22/2010 Kirill Karabits (pictured), and pianist, Simon Trpceski talk with Dean Dalton. They are the two guest artists who will be featured on this weekend’s deliciously Romantic, all-French Houston Symphony concerts, which include a Piano Concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns and the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz... |
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The Front Row, Wednesday, 04/21/2010 Bayou-City photographic artist, Libbie Masterson, shows us her FotoFest-affiliated exhibit, Sky on view at the Wade Wilson Art Gallery. We also chat with Artistic Director Jason Oby and musicologist Yvonne Kendall preview Music of the People: Folk-Inspired Art Songs, a recital by Col Canto, Houston’s art-song society... |
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The Front Row, Tuesday, 04/20/2010 Today, we chat with Canadian-born choreographer, Aszure Barton (pictured center). Society for the Performing Arts presents Ms. Barton and her New York-based contemporary dance company in their Houston debut... |
