A Beautiful Noise
Created in collaboration with Neil Diamond, one of America’s greatest songwriters and performers, this feel-good true story is about the Brooklyn boy whose immigrant Polish and Russian parents who escaped…
AMERICAN MODERNISM: Art in Houston
A superlative private collection of American paintings is currently on show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The collection of philanthropist and Texas native Charles Butt, more than 90…
WINSLOW HOMER: in Houston
The most comprehensive exhibit ever mounted of watercolours by Winslow Homer is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Homer (1836-1910) ranks among the most famous of…
The Moral Capacity of Human Beings: De Gaulle, Resistance and the Blue Wave in Texas
Two things collided to make last night’s premier viewing of the sweeping historical 159-minute film “De Gaulle Part One: Resistance” by Antonin Baudry extremely relevant to the moral capacity of…
FAUST: Eternal Remorse
What better opera to see around Halloween than Faust? Based on a 16th-century German story of a fellow named Faust who sold his soul to the devil, this opera is…
WILD PARTY in Austin
There is a Wild Party in Austin this month! The musical The Wild Party is based on a 1928 poem book by Joseph March, evocatively illustrated by Art Spiegelman. In…
Texas French Bread Revisited
I moved to Austin in the blazing inferno of a summer in 2011. Before that, I visited for one week to determine where I was going to live. During that…
HALLOWEEN: The Romantic Witch Embodied Anger
My Halloween book feature of the year is a scholarly look at witchcraft in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The “emasculating potential of the female demonic” is perfectly illustrated…
A Standing Ovation for the Music, A Raised Eyebrow for the Story
Broadway in Austin produced another blockbuster show, which enthralled the audience, producing fits of yelling, clapping and whoo-hooing while the performers weren’t even halfway through their songs. Waitress, celebrating its…
GILBERT and SULLIVAN: in Austin
Sullivan & Gilbert is currently being staged in Austin. For fans of Gilbert & Sullivan, you will be thinking I made a mistake by switching the names. For that, you…