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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)

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    Christina Wells plays "Mama" Morton in TUTS' Chicago.

    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 June Art

    Where to see art in Houston now: 9 intriguing new exhibits opening in June

    Tarra Gaines
    Jun 9, 2025 | 5:00 pm
    ​The Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents “Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt”
    Photographyby Sun Shi
    The Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents “Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt” (Anicka Yi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of theartist and Gladstone Gallery)

    Houston welcomes lots of fun new art shows this month, including Lawndale’s annual “Big Show.” The Asia Society invites people on a scavenger hunt, and Sawyer Yards welcomes art selfies. After a lull during campus renovations, the place for innovative and provocative art at the University of Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum, opens three new exhibitions. Meanwhile, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston travels into a beautiful, luxurious past and into a mind-bending AI future as it celebrates some new acquisitions.

    “The Big Show” at Lawndale Art Center (now through August 2)
    One of Houston's favorite annual shows opens this month, as Lawndale once more puts local artists in the spotlight. As is tradition, this group exhibition features new work by artists practicing within a 100-mile radius of Lawndale. This year’s expert juror is Dr. Phillip A. Townsend, curator of art at the University of Texas’ Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS). Townsend has selected 88 works by 77 artists from nearly a thousand entries.

    Naming this 2025 Big Show “Between Lines and Faces,” Townsend chose art that "explores the intersection of three seemingly disparate elements: text, portraiture, and the mundane. When woven together, these themes reveal profound insights into the human condition and the society we inhabit.

    “Be the Art: The Silos Selfie Experience” at Sawyer Yards (now through August 9)
    Here’s one with art created for all the Instagram/TikTok influencers out there. The artists at the Silos have been prompted to display large-scale, nearly immersive works, as an invitation for people to photograph them alone or to take selfies with them. Whether created as a painting, drawing, print, sculpture, or mixed media, these works are camera ready and willing to share screen time with a visitor's face. Each artwork also features a statement from the artist, providing some insights into the inspirations behind their choices in media, color, composition, and narrative.

    “a way to mend” at Blaffer Art Museum (now through September 27)
    Art heals at this new group exhibition showcasing 19 Gulf Coast artists whose work explores recovery, health, and restoration in mental, physical, or spiritual forms. These pieces also find a balance between landscapes and abstraction images. Our region is also a commonality in the work, as the Blaffer preview description of the exhibition notes that these artists find the Gulf Coast as a place of “resilience, transformation, and repair.” Along with visual artworks, the exhibition also features companion essays and poems by five authors who composed written work especially for the exhibition.

    “¡Cuidado!” at Blaffer Art Museum (now through September 27)
    This video installation and sculpture exhibition from multidisciplinary artists X Arriaga Cuellar and Adán Vallecillo also contemplate life and death but with a sharp focus on healthcare workers, especially those from Latin America who came to the U.S. to act as caregivers for the elderly. “¡Cuidado!” combines a video installation of performance work, centering on migrant caregivers from Honduras, with audio and sculptural pieces that represent different modalities of care. Scheduled live performances will also engage with these sculptures. According to the artists, the exhibition serves as a tribute to the Honduran immigrants, including Vallecillo’s sister, Mabel, who have dedicated their lives to this dignified and essential caregiving.

    “Saif Azzuz: Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising)” at Blaffer Art Museum (now through December 20)
    In his first museum exhibition, award-winning California artist Saif Azzuz brings together installations, paintings, and assemblage pieces that examine themes of privatization of land, water, and natural resources. Some of these works will juxtapose 19th century artifacts – like old Allen Brothers advertisements to sell land around Buffalo Bayou — with historical references to indigenous western Gulf Coast cultures such as the Karankawa and Akokisa peoples. The show will include additional artwork from Azzuz’s family members, including Lulu Thrower, Elizabeth Azzuz, Viola Azzuz, Moya Azzuz, and Colleen Colegrove, all embracing ecological messages.

    “Diamonds That Fall from the Treetop” at SANMAN Studios (June 14-July 26)
    Houston-born multidisciplinary artist and curator Robert Leroy Hodge is most known for his award-winning, layered collage work. But with this mini-retrospective of selected works straight from his studio, art lovers will get to experience never-before-seen paintings, sculptures, and even musical compositions by Hodge.

    “Diamonds” marks the first collaboration between the artist and SANMAN and High Hope Studios, and it's intended to demonstrate a shared commitment to creative excellence, cultural memory, and community-building. With this significant collaboration in mind, SANMAN will also offer free programing around the exhibition rooted in Black joy, sound culture, and community connection.

    “From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collections" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June 22–September 14)
    The exhibition will give visitors their first look at 67 of the 187 pieces the MFAH acquired from the Banoo and Jeevak Parpia Collection, considered one of the most significant holdings of Indian textiles in private hands outside of India. “From India to the World” will give museum visitors insight into the rich history of these silk, muslin, embroideries and vivid tie-dyes created and woven in India. The exhibition also explores the distinctions between textiles made for the Indian market and fabric exported all over the world.

    “The Parpia textile collection is a pivotal addition to our collections,” said MFAH director Gary Tinterow. “Showcasing both trade and domestic textiles from India, it represents over 40 years of dedicated collecting by Banoo and Jeevak Parpia, who have assembled one of the foremost private collections of this material globally. The Parpias’ focus on singular works exemplifying traditional forms and techniques offers a comprehensive view of Indian textile history. With this acquisition, the MFAH collection now ranks among the top public Indian textile collections outside of India.”

    “Memory Palace” at Asia Society (June 25-October 12)
    Find the joy in discovery with this new exhibition of contemporary sculpture from Japanese artist Umico Niwa, whose work has been presented and celebrated in museums and galleries around the world. Resembling flower creatures or nymphs, the delicate Daphnes figures seem to be at play and invite visitors to imagine their own stories for the creations.

    The Asia Society notes that “Memory Palace” draws on Japanese traditions of animism and ancestral reverence but resists easy categorization. Spread across the Asia Society space, the Daphnes call us to an art adventure, as we wander into this “Memory Palace” game of hide and seek.

    “Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt” at Museum of Fine Arts (June 29–September 7)
    Science, technology, and creativity meet in this exhibition at the MFAH. For the latest in the museum's series of immersive summer shows, Anicka Yi, a Seoul-born, New York-based art innovator, stretches the boundaries of art, science, and maybe even mortality in her work, taking visitors beyond time and space with two mind-expanding installations.

    The first section will consist of five of Yi’s large scale, animatronic “Radiolaria” sculptures that resemble giant living cells. The sculptures will be installed so they seem to float within the gallery, as if it were inside a liquid environment. The second installation, the 16-minute video “Each Branch Of Coral Holds Up the Light Of the Moon” is the first work created by Yi using Emptiness, a software system/project created in collaboration with her studio and a team of engineers. Essentially, Emptiness is an AI algorithm trained on Yi’s work that might be capable of producing new Yi-style visionary video pieces even beyond her lifespan.

    “Anicka Yi shows us that it is possible to use AI systems to express our most human concerns, as she invites viewers to consider our place in ever-evolving cycles of creation and change,” said MFAH director Gary Tinterow.

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    Photo by Sun Shi

    The Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents “Anicka Yi: Karmic Debt” (Anicka Yi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of theartist and Gladstone Gallery).

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