Karen Branch

The scenery, the set, the plot, the extraordinary actors and music…The Wizard of Oz is magical. The fantasy film follows Dorothy (a ridiculously talented 17-year-old Judy Garland) as she’s whisked away from her Kansas farm to a magical land populated by witches, wizards and flying monkeys. In search of a...

“It’s a tour de force combination of a wonderful Chinese culture all rolled into one wonderful evening” Cynthia Dike-Hughes, co-producer with IAI Presentations, says about the Peking Acrobats. “We have a lot of surprises for the audiences this year. I think that Houston will really be impressed with the show.”...

In the play The Giver, the success of society depends on one man knowing the history of all things, both good and evil, while the rest of the population remains in ignorance of the truth. Now it’s time for that man, known as the Giver, to pass the knowledge on...

The “Flashes of Hope” photography project has a simple goal: “photographing every child with cancer until every child is cured.” Currently at the Health Museum, “Flashes of Hope” is a series of images created by teams of volunteer stylists and photographers who worked with children to create special photographs. Some...

Christina Levin describes Touring Taste of Dance Salad Festival 2013 as “nine hours of festival footage edited down to a one-hour-long screening.” “Even in that [short amount of] time, the feeling of the Dance Salad Festival really comes through very strongly and the movie becomes a work of art that...