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Best memories: Eight powerful performances that made this arts season special

By Nancy Wozny

05.21.13 | 12:32 pm

My inbox is bombarded with new season info. Looks great, people, I'll be there, but not right now, I'm still processing this past season. As May winds down and we head into the semi-art ...

Society for the Performing Arts presents David Sedaris

Wortham Theater Center

11.02.12

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and politi

A Fallon-esque idea

Thank you to Coughing Man, Unknown Amateur Photographer & others who disrupt Houston's art performances

By Leslie Loddeke

05.12.12 | 3:10 pm

Thank you, Unknown Coughing Man, for that remarkable barking-Rottweiler counterpoint you projected from the audience to diva Joyce DiDonato’s silvery swan song at the end of Houston Grand Ope ...

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Dream on: My fantasy arts season includes James Franco, female choreographers & velvet martini lounges

By Nancy Wozny

07.16.11 | 2:52 pm

It's summer, I'm on vacation and frankly, I just don't have time to visit all your websites or open all those attachments to see what you are actually doing next season. Plus, I ha ...

Art outreach

Society for the Performing Arts hits the 'hood

By Steven Thomson

11.07.10 | 8:30 am

Society for the Performing Arts is taking its hotbed of talent and bevy of blue chip performances beyond the Theatre District and into the city's communities with a new, major partnership with ...

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Potent partnerships: Houston Ballet, HGO & SPA offer healing touch with unique arts programs

By Nancy Wozny

08.19.10 | 10:27 am

When the curtain comes up on Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera (HGO), we may laugh, cry or simply marvel at the spectacular quality of two of our major arts institutions. And rightly so, ...

Shelby About Town

It's mid-July and it seems that everyone still in town is still partying

By Shelby Hodge

07.16.10 | 3:59 pm

Oh, how the naughty boys of summer and the July party girls have been itching for an excuse to release their pent-up party fever. Why, not since the Fourth of July has there been such a good reason ...

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Undercover arts mama: A Raging Oldster infiltrates those fussed-over Young Professional groups

By Nancy Wozny

07.15.10 | 10:22 am

Tonight, the young and gorgeous gather at DiverseWorks for a post Hunter Gatherers dessert and drink soiree sponsored by Houston Young People for the Arts (HYPA). It's a marvelous Catastrophic ...

SPA presents Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Jones Hall

02.02.10

Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been around since the 1960s and performed for the Queen of England and Pope John Paul II. The popular a cappella group blends the rhythms and harmonies rooted in their

Society for the Performing Arts presents The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

Wortham Theater Center

04.02.11

The Silk Road Ensemble is named after the great trade route that connected China and the Mediterranean. The ancient route provided a way for countries to share in each other's cultures. This en