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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, opera was produced on television. Not the old and musty, but avant-garde and contemporary. Impossible to believe, but in the pioneering '50s, NBC actually had a director of “new opera programming.” Famed conductor Peter Herman Adler, born in what is...
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What’s a Houstonian to do if he or she develops a yen for theater around the holidays but would rather poke their eyes out with candy canes and drown a slow death in eggnog than sit through one of those treacly feel-good seasonal productions? Historically there’s always been the intentionally...
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The show curtain for Houston Grand Opera's world premiere of Javier Martinez (music) and Leonard Foglia's (libretto) El Milagro del Recuerdo (“The Miracle of Remembering”) is everything you'd want for a prelude. Depicting a Mexican folk pastorela (the Nativity pageant), it's painted in vivid, vibrant colors like a Mayan temple...
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Funny and festive, blissful and sweet, this weekend offers more than a few of our favorite things. There's a mariachi opera, comedy on stage, Latin-inspired music, a marathon monologue from Jay Leno, a gingerbread build-off (in space!), a homecoming of sorts over at the Houston Ballet, and a return to...
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In Becky Mode's Fully Committed, a little alternative holiday programming offer now playing at the Alley Theatre, one actor plays more than 40 characters in a non-stop one-act ride.
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The Gospel story has never been a popular attraction on the stage, except for the medieval pageant The Massacre of the Innocents, a huge hit for its time with its dark theme of infanticide. But this antique doesn't exactly suit our modern holiday celebration. Thus, there are only two secular...
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