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    best february theater

    12 best February shows no Houston theater fan should miss, from Chicago to Moulin Rouge

    Tarra Gaines
    Feb 3, 2023 | 1:00 pm

    Theatrical Love is the air this February in all of its dramatic, comic, and tragic forms. From family love to doomed couples to happily ever afters, Houston stages have the perfect Valentines for everyone.

    Not in the mood for love? Look for topical stories, timely issues, and lots of music this month — some by local stars.

    Chicago from Theatre Under the Stars (now through February 12)

    The hits keep on coming at the Hobby Center, as the merry murderess, the Cook County Jail, and their totally honest lawyer are back to "Razzle Dazzle" once more in the classic jazz-age story of fame, law, media, and PR that remains especially timely even today.

    One of two shows of the TUTS season that they'll present instead of produce, this latest Chicago tour corresponds with the 25-year anniversary of the celebrated and Tony-winning, late-'90s revival that brought us all that jazz and rewrote the book on what a revival can be — without actually rewriting the book.

    Keep an eye out for local singing sensation Christina Wells. The Houston breakout star of America's Got Talent plays the favorite role of Matron "Mama" Morton in the TUTS production. (Read our interview with Wells here.)

    Every Brilliant Thing at A.D. Players (now through February 19)

    How to measure a life? How about in those moments of brightness amid the darkness? Go beyond the confines of a one-person show as the audience helps this narrator tell a story of the bonds between mother and child in a family struggling with depression.

    Here, a narrator recounts how his mother first attempted suicide when he was 7 years old, so he begins writing a list of everything brilliant about the world. With a dynamic structure that asks the audience help create the story without leaving their seats, the show sends a message of hope during through the most difficult life challenges.

    Though tackling very serious topics of mental health, depression, and suicide, Every Brilliant Thing holds joy and humor at its core.

    A Number at Rec Room (now through February 25)

    Sci-Fi meets intimate theater in this look at fatherhood in a world of genetic experiments and cloning. One of Houston’s favorite actor-turned-directors — the Alley’s James Black — directs the always superb (and Alley resident actor) Shawn Hamilton and next-gen actor/writer Philip Kershaw in this Caryl Churchill play.

    The play proves a twister about identity, family bonds and scientific second chances that come with hefty emotional prices. Every parent makes mistakes. Salter makes a number of them. Now 35 years later, his only child realizes he's not alone and perhaps not so unique.

    Red Speedo from On the Verge Theatre (now through February 26)

    This one takes the most original staging award for the month, as this Lucas Hnath play about competitive swimming will be performed around a real pool, specifically at Houston’s Gigglin’ Marlin Dive & Swim.

    The story follows swimmer Ray to Olympic tryouts and the possible endorsement deal it entails until performing enhancing drugs are found at his training site.

    While we don’t think the audience will get wet, this will certainly be the most dramatically immersive experience for the month.

    Almost Maine at MATCH (February 8-12)

    Some of our favorite local actors and director Frances Limoncelli bring back the Actors Equity Festival with probably the most diverse set of love stories for Valentine’s Day. In this limited-run, feel-good romantic comedy by John Cariani, the Northern Lights cast a romantic spell in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine.

    Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal and the hearts are mended--almost--in this delightful midwinter night's dream.

    Eddie Goes to Poetry City from Catastrophic Theatre (February 10-March 4)

    Houston’s most avant garde company keeps it weird with this mind-melter from one of the pioneers of late-20th-century experimental theater, Richard Foreman.

    Director and Catastrophic core-artist Greg Dean takes us down to Poetry City where language melts and effect sometimes arrives before cause. Our hero, Eddie dreams of life beyond the mundane, but when dreams bring him to Poetry City he may find struggles and failures have their own poetry.

    Cullud Wattah at Stages (February 10-March 31)

    Speak this title aloud for the emotional gut-punch in this very timely, topical, and Smith Blackburn Prize winning Afro-surrealist work from playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza.

    With a story that follows three generations of Black women living through the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, this Stages production will be one of the first after the show’s acclaimed debut in New York. It’s been 936 days since Flint has had clean water. Marion, a third-generation General Motors employee, is consumed by layoffs at the engine plant.

    When her sister, Ainee, seeks justice and restitution for lead poisoning, her plan reveals the toxic entanglements between the city and its most powerful industry, forcing their family to confront the past-present-future cost of survival.

    Permanent Collection at Main Street Theater (February 11-March 5)

    Main Street opens the second half of their '22-'23 season with the most timely of issues with this story of an African-American businessman Sterling North taking the directorship of a world-famous art collection.

    When North proposes to change the permanent collection display by adding eight pieces of African art from storage, a battle ensues with the long-time education director who is devoted to protecting Morris’ vision.

    Spurred on by a zealous local journalist, the clash quickly escalates to public accusations of racism and a bitter struggle for control of the collection.

    Moulin Rouge! The Musical from Broadway at the Hobby Center (February 22-March 12)

    Broadway can-can-cans its way into Houston in a blaze of color and music favorites reimagined in this stage version of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film.

    The production follows a tale about the doomed love (isn’t it always) between an artist — in this case composer — Christian and showgirl — in this case cabaret star — Satine. But perhaps the real star of the show is the setting itself: 1880s Paris club culture along with a songs from the original film and its new versions of classics like “Your Song” and “Nature Boy.

    This Broadway jukebox musical Moulin kicks the medleys and mashups to new heights. Let’s see how many of the almost 20 songs we can recognize in just the “Elephant Love Medley.”

    Romeo & Juliet from Houston Ballet (February 23-March 5)

    The Houston Ballet wraps up our month of love with G.O.A.T. of tragic love stories, as HB artistic director, Stanton Welch melds his extraordinary choreography with Shakespeare’s story and Sergey Prokofiev’s music.

    Welch’s interpretation of this immortal story of young love pulled apart by family strive pays tribute to Italian Renaissance with classic themes and fresh choreography danced to Prokofiev’s romantic score.

    Expect lavish sets and costumes by acclaimed Italian designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno.

    The Best of Broadway with Jeremy Jordan from the Houston Symphony (February 24-26)

    Yes, this concert is more theater-adjacent, but these Broadway melodies call to us.

    Tony and Grammy-nominated Broadway star Jeremy Jordan returns to Houston and to the Houston Symphony’s pops lineup and the Jones Hall stage by popular demand to perform hit songs from his signature Broadway roles in Newsies! and Waitress, plus selections from fan-favorite musicals like West Side Story, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Rock of Ages, Les Misérables, and more in a decades-spanning journey through Broadway’s greatest hits.

    Principal POPS Conductor of the Houston Symphony, Steven Reineke, conducts.

    New/Now: The Houston Artist Commissioning Project from Performing Arts Houston (February 24-25)

      

    Photo by Matthew Murphy

    Austin Durant and the cast of the North American Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical

    This show offers up everything from a new variation on Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations complete with musicians’ brain scans to a musical pantomime with narration retelling of a South Asian romantic folktale. Look for new music sung in Angola’s native language Kimbundu and a music and dance exploration of U.S. and Mexico border migration.

    Truly, an evening of performances doesn’t get much more diverse and intriguing and Houston than this. For PAH’s annual initiative to give Houston artists a large Theater District stage and perhaps something of a bridge to the rest of the world, they’ve chosen performance projects with strong music foundations, though most will be multidisciplinary.

    As the title suggests, the show promises new, now, and plenty of wow from composer and author Anthony Brandt; playwright and poet, Tazeen Zahida; singer-songwriter and dancer, Vivalda Ndula, and composer and cinematographer, J.E. Hernández, all of whom are Houstonians.

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    Best May Art

    Floating worlds and immersive experiences top Houston's 9 best new art openings

    Tarra Gaines
    May 8, 2025 | 2:30 pm
    ​“Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, The Immersive Rock Experience!”
    Photo courtesy of Artechouse
    “Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, The Immersive Rock Experience!” opens at Artechouse in May.

    After an blooming array of outdoor art installations the last few months, new art takes flight indoors for some rocking immersive shows and stunning exhibitions embracing the natural world. Art and science meet at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Houston Museum of Natural Science, while art and history merge at Rice Moody Center, the CAMH, and the Menil Collection. Houston-based artists also take the spotlight in several big shows across the city.

    “EAT!!” at the Silos in Sawyer Yards (now through May 24)
    This exhibition from local mixed-media artist Diane Gelman showcases the art of dining in a thoughtful-yet-whimsical new way. A feast for the eyes, this new solo exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and installations all about one of our favorite subjects, food. For Gelman, a registered and licensed dietitian, food is a celebration, served with joy, fostering social activity and positivity the world over. It is a universal language that promotes cross-cultural connection, and nourishes both our bodies and souls. “EAT!!” will encourage personal reflection and will be an entire smorgasbord for the senses. Gelman was awarded a 2025 Individual Artists Grant for EAT!! from the City of Houston.

    “Audubon's Birds of America” at Houston Museum of Natural Science (now through September 1)
    Perhaps one of the most famous naturalist books of all time, John James Audubon’s Birds of America series captivated its original 19th century audience with its spectacular, life-sized ornithological illustrations and helped to make birding the hobby that it is today. This fascinating exhibition at the HMNS gives us the chance to see these illustrations up close in all their colorful plumage. Originally organized by the National Museums Scotland, the exhibition includes 46 prints from their rare unbound collection of Birds of America. Along with these magnificent illustrations, the show will explore both the beauty of Audubon’s work and the complexities of his legacy, including Audubon as an adventurer and naturalist legend, as well as the more complex, problematic realities of his actual life.

    “Floating World: A.A.Murakam” at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (now through September 5)
    In the past few years, Houston has become home to so many immersive and interactive art spaces, but the MFAH will always be the pioneer when it comes to giving viewers the chance to play amid the art. Once again, the MFAH has captured art lightning in a bottle, this time literally, with the multi-gallery exhibition by the Tokyo and London-based A.A.Murakami, also know as Azusa Murakami, and Alexander Groves. Melding science, nature, and art, the duo create large-scale immersive landscapes working in mediums of light, fog, plasma, bubbles and sound. Each gallery holds work that is etherial, constantly transforming and will never be the same with each visit. Expect “Floating Worlds” to be a local social media art star by June.

    “This is the first exhibition in a U. S. museum of the work of these remarkable artists,” noted MFAH director Gary Tinterow. “The term that A.A.Murakami has used to characterize their work, 'Ephemeral Tech,' aptly captures the uncanny nature of these mesmerizing environments, which rely on the latest innovations in artifice and science to evoke the timeless, fleeting moments of nature’s forces.”

    “The Eternal Garden: Titanium Art by Aka Chen” at Houston Museum of Natural Science (now through September)
    This exhibition of work by the renowned Taiwanese artist Aka Chen features 20 sculptures that uniquely combine jewelry artistry and Chinese brush painting using titanium and gemstones. Chen’s unique process involves sculpting the metal under water using precision tools originally designed for medical applications and working at extraordinarily high temperatures. Once shaped, the titanium undergoes an anodization process, revealing a mesmerizing iridescent shimmer. This intricate process culminates in the artful setting of carefully selected gemstones, each enhancing the inherent beauty of the titanium and elevating the pieces into works of art. Chen’s sculptures represent the most delicate objects and creatures in nature, like flowers, butterflies, and dragonflies, but are formed by some of the strongest natural material.

    “Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, The Immersive Rock Experience!” at Artechouse (May 15-August 31)
    When the artful fun house that is Artechouse opened last June, the plan was always to rotate in new installations and exhibition, and this latest one will surely rock our art world. This immersive video experience takes audiences on a 50-minute rock ‘n’ roll journey through music history, dropping them into a 270-degree, floor-to-ceiling, 18K-resolution digital canvas and state-of-the-art surround sound. Putting viewers right in the midst of rock history and classic concerts, “Amplified” features rare footage from live performance and behind-the-scenes and candid artist moments, exclusive portrait sessions, album art, and posters. Artechouse says “Amplified delivers one of the most comprehensive collections of rock ‘n’ roll imagery ever assembled and includes the work of 500 photographers and film directors."

    “The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House” at Menil Collection (May 23-November 2)
    This show of the acclaimed Houston-based artist’s latest work was inspired by a 50-year-old letter that John de Menil wrote to Fuchs’s father, a German classical archeologist, when seeking his expertise on a sculpture in Menil’s private collection. Decades late, Fuchs found a photo of that piece in her father’s personal effects. “The Space Between” becomes Fuchs’s response to John’s unanswered letter, in the form of her painting various objects, including other art work, from the de Menil House. Through her own artwork, Fuchs reflects on the nature of everyday objects, attempting to capture their fundamental truths. For this series of paintings, Fuchs researched hundreds of photographs taken of the de Menil’s home and studied how artworks were moved through the interior spaces throughout the decades.

    “Francesca’s sincere and inspired approach to researching the de Menil house and permanent collection has generated a refreshingly original and rich perspective on the lives of objects collected by John and Dominique de Menil,” described Menil Collection curator, Paul R. Davis. “Her enduring pursuit of painting compels us to think about the layered and fungible meanings of everyday objects.”

    “Figurative Histories” at Rice Moody Center (May 30-August 16)
    For their dynamic summer exhibition, the Moody Center celebrates Texas-based artists Letitia Huckaby, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., David McGee, and Delita Martin. Besides hailing from the Lone Star State, these four artists also create figurative artwork influenced by their personal histories and socio-political themes. Their work often depicts the human body and uses images from the past to understand the present. Many of the pieces in the exhibition also explore historical absences, especially the lack of Black representation in traditional Western art.

    The exhibition will include photographs by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. of daily life in Houston’s Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards, eight portraits from Letitia Huckaby’s acclaimed “A Living Requiem” series. The show will also feature seven large-scale watercolors from David McGee’s “Avenging Angels” series, more than one hundred works on paper from his “Tarot Cards” series, and brand new works by Delita Martin, drawn from her “Song Keepers” series, which honors the presence of Black women in history, memory, and spirit.

    “Clément Cogitore: Collective Memories” at Rice Moody Center (May 30-August 16)
    Presented in adjacent galleries, these two video installations from the renowned French artist, director, and photographer, Cogitore, create a dialogue with each other about the nature of community performance and collective energy. The first film, Les Indes galantes, offers a contemporary version of the the 18th century Baroque opera ballet by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. In this reimagining, classic ballet is replaced with krumping, a dance style popularized in South Central Los Angeles in the early 2000s. The second video, Morgestraich (2022), pays tribute to the Carnival of Basel, an event held in Switzerland since the Middle Ages. The piece features elaborately dressed carnival participants against a dark backdrop, walking continually toward an invisible crowd.

    “Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe” at Contemporary Arts Museum (May 30-March 29, 2026)
    This mid-career survey of the award-winning, Houston-born artist will showcase nearly a decade of her multidisciplinary work, including painting, printmaking, video, photography, fiber, and sculpture. Jackson creates much of her art through a research process grounded in interviews with local community members, historians, and advocates. Jackson weaves together color theory and these discovered histories to explore themes of land, labor, and law — culminating in vibrant pieces that celebrate the empowerment of disenfranchised groups within American democracy.

    “My family is a product of the Great Migration route from Texas to California and I am thrilled to bring Across The Universe to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,” Jackson said in a statement. “This opportunity to share more than 10 years of my work visualizing public narratives across disciplines to the city of my birth is a long held dream come true.”

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    “Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, The Immersive Rock Experience!” opens at Artechouse in May.
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