By MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 I look up and behold the ornately ornamented ceiling of Detroit s Orchestra Hall, a place I ve never actually been. I look down and my legs have vanished, replaced by a single black pole terminating into a tripod. I look all around and find every other seat in the hall empty, though I m told that at least 10 of us are in attendance. And onstage in front of me, I see the 19 socially distanced members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra tuning their instruments in complete silence - that is, until I pop in my ear buds.
Artist Jane Kim contributes a new mural, Confluence, to Houston s public art scene. April 7 at 4 a.m.
Whether it’s Second City or other groups. seeing how people persevere in improv, where they’re still saying ‘we’re gonna make stuff!’ To see them persevering, I think has been really great. March 29 at 4 a.m.
Empire of the Superheroes: America’s Comic Book Creators and the Making of a Billion Dollar Industry By Mark Cotta Vaz 488 pp. $34.95 University of Texas Press Pop culture and comic book fandom have been abuzz recently with the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It’s an extended (way extended).
What happens when music, dance, and technology meet? The result is something unexpected. This event will feature Google’s virtual reality technology. As the Houston Symphony performs favorites like Clair de .
A.D. Players at The George Theater announced in January that they were going virtual for the rest of their season and the move to cyberspace begins this Friday, February 12, with
A Speck-Tacular Evening of Stories and Songs with Emily & Jake Speck. You can join A.D. Players Executive Director Jake Speck and his wife Emily Tello Speck to hear their story, from finding each other to finding their place here in Houston, and to enjoy some familiar musical theater tunes. (Take a sneak peek at Emily rehearsing Sara Bareilles’s “She Used to Be Mine” from
Waitresshere). You can purchase a ticket for $35 here, and the show will be available to stream through February 28.
12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents
Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the
Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. View here and on demand for one week.