Jessica Goldman

Two Texas Southern University theater legends who exemplify excellence and commitment to their craft are being recognized on April 12 when the first annual Dianne Jemison Pollard Award for Distinguished Achievement in Acting is given to Edwin Lee Gibson. Best known for his work as Ebraheim, one of the cooks...

Arianna Bermudez is expecting her first child on May 8, a wonderfully joyous thing to look forward to. It’s also a bit scary. Every mother-to-be has some level of nervousness around what it means to raise a baby, but as an actor, Bermudez is also experiencing a good dose of...

Devin doesn’t want to be like this, Houston playwright Michael Weems tells us in the program for his new play, End of the World. The “this” he refers to is his main character’s obsessive need to drown out the world the only way that seems to work for her –...

The love of going to the theater is all about discovery. It’s about seeing a new play you’ve been dying to catch or how a modern director might interpret a classic. Theater is about experiencing how that actor you loved in that thing you saw reinvents themselves in the show...

Larry’s favorite photograph of his dad is the one his father hates the most. The shot, taken by Larry, a distinguished photographer, is a close-up of his father, Irv, sleeping peacefully on the family’s California living room couch. Through Larry’s eyes, the image captures the vulnerability his father masks in...