Feb 16, 2020 | ktru, Showstoppers
By: Harrison Lorenzen
Stages’ brings a storybook quality to The Fantasticks, its first production inside their new theater complex, The Gordy. As has become a coincidental tradition for Stages, this is their third time producing The Fantasticks during their first season in a new venue. Presenting a story about love, family, and friendship, this show leaves many lessons for the audience to take with them. On-stage through March 15th at The Gordy, everyone should make time to attend The Fantasticks.
The Fantasticks follows the story of two young “forbidden” lovers, whose clever fathers have erected a wall to keep them apart. While the kids fall in love, thinking their fathers forbid it, the fathers, secretly friends, must devise a ploy to revise their faux conflicts so the lovers can marry. The mysterious El Gallo arrives with his services to assist the fathers, and, in effect, corrupt the innocence of the children. Complete with a has-been Shakespearean acting duo, the show keeps audiences engaged on the edge of their seats, while also laughing hysterically throughout.
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Feb 9, 2020 | ktru
1 - blood orange - angel's pulse - domino
2 - bon iver - i,i - jagjaguwar
3 - girl in red - beginnings (chapter 1 +2) - s/r
4 - angel olsen - all mirrors - jagjaguwar
5 - kishi bashi - omoiyari - joyful noise
6 - mariachi los camperos - de ayer para siempre - smithsonian folkways
7 - sudan archives - athena - stones throw
8 - steel blossoms - steel blossoms - billy jam records
9 - bodywash - comforter - luminelle
10 - baroness - gold & grey - abraxan hymns
11 - gong gong gong - phantom rhythm - wharf cat
12 - (sandy) alex g - house of sugar - domino
13 - swans - leaving meaning - young god
14 - palehound - black friday - polyvinyl
15 - black midi - schlagenheim - rough trade
16 - laurie anderson, tenzin choegyal, jesse paris smith - songs from the bardo - smithsonian folkways
17 - levitation room - headspace - greenway
18 - big thief - two hands - 4ad
19 - great grandpa - four of arrows - double double whammy
20 - charly bliss - supermoon - barsuk
21 - turnover - altogether - run for cover
22 - hot chip - a bathful of ecstasy - domino
23 - grand vapids - eat the shadow - s/r
24 - y la bamba - entre los dos - tender loving empire
25 - diiv - deceiver - captured tracks
26 - stef chura - midnight - saddle creek
27 - local natives - violet street - loma vista
28 - bridal party - too much - kingfisher bluez
29 - peaer - a healthy earth - tiny engines
30 - land of kush - sand enigma - constellation
31 - joshua gerowitz - joshua gerowitz's dark forest theory - pfmentum
32 - v/a - paris cafe - putumayo
33 - pan american - a son - kranky
34 - mattson 2, the - paradise - company
35 - gauche - a people's history of gauche - merge
Feb 2, 2020 | ktru
1 - brockhampton - ginger - rca
2 - kishi bashi - omoiyari - joyful noise
3 - blood orange - angel's pulse - domino
4 - girl in red - beginnings (chapter 1 +2) - s/r
5 - sudan archives - athena - stones throw
6 - bon iver - i,i - jagjaguwar
7 - angel olsen - all mirrors - jagjaguwar
8 - swans - leaving meaning - young god
9 - baroness - gold & grey - abraxan hymns
10 - mariachi los camperos - de ayer para siempre - smithsonian folkways
11 - gong gong gong - phantom rhythm - wharf cat
12 - (sandy) alex g - house of sugar - domino
13 - big thief - two hands - 4ad
14 - richard dawson - 2020 - weird world
15 - turnover - altogether - run for cover
16 - diiv - deceiver - captured tracks
17 - levitation room - headspace - greenway
18 - black midi - schlagenheim - rough trade
19 - bodywash - comforter - luminelle
20 - laurie anderson, tenzin choegyal, jesse paris smith - songs from the bardo - smithsonian folkways
21 - guerilla toss - what would the odd do? - nna tapes
22 - panamerican - a son - kranky
23 - hot chip - a bathful of ecstasy - domino
24 - grand vapids - eat the shadow - s/r
25 - square peg round hole - branches - national sawdust tracks
26 - steel blossoms - steel blossoms - billy jam records
27 - charly bliss - supermoon - barsuk
28 - hecker, tim - anoyo - kranky
29 - various - reggae gold 2019 - vp
30 - anamanaguchi - [usa] - polyvinyl
31 - joshua gerowitz - joshua gerowitz's dark forest theory - pfmentum
32 - local natives - violet street - loma vista
33 - spiegel, laurie - unseen worlds - unseen worlds
34 - cfm - soundtrack to an empty room - in the red
35 - los coast - samsara - new west
Jan 26, 2020 | ktru
1 - blood orange - angel's pulse - domino
2 - kishi bashi - omoiyari - joyful noise
3 - gong gong gong - phantom rhythm - wharf cat
4 - brockhampton - ginger - rca
5 - levitation room - headspace - greenway
6 - angel olsen - all mirrors - jagjaguwar
7 - big thief - two hands - 4ad
8 - swans - leaving meaning - young god
9 - great grandpa - four of arrows - double double whammy
10 - laurie anderson, tenzin choegyal, jesse paris smith - songs from the bardo - smithsonian folkways
11 - black midi - schlagenheim - rough trade
12 - bon iver - i,i - jagjaguwar
13 - girl in red - beginnings (chapter 1 +2) - s/r
14 - baroness - gold & grey - abraxan hymns
15 - land of kush - sand enigma - constellation
16 - square peg round hole - branches - national sawdust tracks
17 - hecker, tim - anoyo - kranky
18 - bodywash - comforter - luminelle
19 - diiv - deceiver - captured tracks
20 - dead neighbors - without - s/r
21 - steel blossoms - steel blossoms - billy jam records
22 - m83 - dsvii - mute
23 - richard dawson - 2020 - weird world
24 - spiegel, laurie - unseen worlds - unseen worlds
25 - hot chip - a bathful of ecstasy - domino
26 - (sandy) alex g - house of sugar - domino
27 - gauche - a people's history of gauche - merge
28 - belle and sebastian - days of the bagnold summer - matador
29 - local natives - violet street - loma vista
30 - pinky pinky - turkey dinner - innovative leisure
31 - bridal party - too much - kingfisher bluez
32 - y la bamba - entre los dos - tender loving empire
33 - grand vapids - eat the shadow - s/r
34 - kyd - awkward i - antifragile
35 - lahey, alex - the best of luck club - dead oceans
Jan 23, 2020 | ktru
(FROM THE STAIRS AT WHITE OAK MUSIC HALL)
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Jan 19, 2020 | ktru
1 - brockhampton - ginger - rca
2 - blood orange - angel's pulse - domino
3 - kishi bashi - omoiyari - joyful noise
4 - angel olsen - all mirrors - jagjaguwar
5 - gong gong gong - phantom rhythm - wharf cat
6 - levitation room - headspace - greenway
7 - big thief - two hands - 4ad
8 - swans - leaving meaning - young god
9 - lucille furs - another land - rput
10 - pup - morbid stuff - rise
11 - laurie anderson, tenzin choegyal, jesse paris smith - songs from the bardo - smithsonian folkways
12 - land of kush - sand enigma - constellation
13 - bleu nuit - le jardin des memoires - michel
14 - black midi - schlagenheim - rough trade
15 - bon iver - i,i - jagjaguwar
16 - m83 - dsvii - mute
17 - bodywash - comforter - luminelle
18 - (sandy) alex g - house of sugar - domino
19 - diiv - deceiver - captured tracks
20 - great grandpa - four of arrows - double double whammy
21 - girl in red - beginnings (chapter 1 +2) - s/r
22 - baroness - gold & grey - abraxan hymns
23 - steel blossoms - steel blossoms - billy jam records
24 - spiegel, laurie - unseen worlds - unseen worlds
25 - pinky pinky - turkey dinner - innovative leisure
26 - bridal party - too much - kingfisher bluez
27 - belle and sebastian - days of the bagnold summer - matador
28 - hecker, tim - anoyo - kranky
29 - national, the - i am easy to find - 4ad
30 - hot chip - a bathful of ecstasy - domino
31 - y la bamba - entre los dos - tender loving empire
32 - dead neighbors - without - s/r
33 - square peg round hole - branches - national sawdust tracks
34 - richard dawson - 2020 - weird world
35 - local natives - violet street - loma vista
Jan 2, 2020 | ktru, navrang
Sewa (Say-wa) Houston is a 501 (3)c non-profit.
Fundraiser on Saturday Feb 29, 2020, 12:30 - 6pm, 13944 Schiller Rd., Houston, TX 77082
Donation of only $15 / person. All are welcome to attend. Participation: Age 5+ years.
For more info contact: [email protected] or call the #'s on the flier.
Click here for Facebook event page.
Sewa Dancing Stars is a yearly, performance-based fundraiser held in support of ASPIRE, a free after-school program held in low-income Southwest Houston communities that serves immigrant and refugee families. For more information, click here.
Calling all dance schools! Group registration for dance academies is now open! Registration for individuals not participating through a school will open on January 27th. Email [email protected] for more information.
Dec 29, 2019 | ktru, Showstoppers
By: Harrison Lorenzen
Houston has numerous wonderful musicals being performed this spring. From Broadway national tours to a world premiere, there is something for everyone. For those of you looking to start planning spring shows or others who did not get the theater tickets they hoped for this holiday season, maybe this list can help steer you in the right direction.
Dec 14, 2019 | ktru, Showstoppers
Quinn Vantantwerp in "Elf" at TUTS. Photo by Melissa Taylor 2019.
By: Harrison Lorenzen
Theater Under the Stars wows audiences again with this year’s holiday production of “Elf – The Musical”. As is tradition for most theater companies, their productions of family-favorite holiday shows always bring in full audiences of all ages and TUTS’ “Elf” is no different. On-stage through December 22nd, this show is a must-see. The crowd was buzzing from the moment the doors opened, and people continued to hum along to the songs on the way back to their cars.
Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan’s book sticks very close to the original “Elf” Movie, with many of the same jokes as Will Ferrell’s Buddy. Along with the dialogue, Quinn Vanantwerp plays Buddy with the same youthful, aloof innocence as Will Ferrell originated. Vanantwerp joyously bounded across the stage, exuding more happiness and energy than the children on stage at many times. He made the audience cringe with his oblivious attitude towards everything going on around him yet tug at their heartstrings as he yearns for the love of his father.
TUTS filled the ensemble and elves roles with students from their two youth acting programs, The River and Humphreys School of Musical Theater, of which the former is specifically for students with disabilities and their siblings. It was great to see children of all sizes and ages getting to take part in this main stage production, being featured in various scenes throughout the production.
With memorable songs and Christmas magic, the cast kept the audience engaged for the duration of the performance. Each twist and turn in Buddy’s story keeps the audience on the edge of their seat, anxiously awaiting the ending to see how he fixes everything he’s caused. As usual, with a bit of Christmas magic, Buddy can wrap up every loose end and then some to delight every member of the audience.
Don’t miss your chance to see this wonderful production of “Elf – The Musical”, on-stage at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts through December 22nd. For more information visit TUTS.com.
Dec 6, 2019 | ktru, navrang
Anand Patwardhan: Ways of Struggle
December 13, 2019–February 16, 2020
Leslie and Brad Bucher Gallery, Glassell School of Art
• Core Program Lecture: Anand Patwardhan
Thursday, December 12, 7 p.m.
Favrot Auditorium, Glassell School of Art
• Opening Reception + Film Screening: “In the Name of God” / Q&A with Anand Patwardhan
Friday, December 13, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Favrot Auditorium, Glassell School of Art
• Film Screening: “Reason” / Introduction by Anand Patwardhan
Saturday, December 14, 1 p.m.
Brown Auditorium Theater, MFAH
For more info: MFAH - Anand Patwardhan
Anand Patwardhan: Ways of Struggle surveys four decades of filmmaking by one of the world’s foremost documentarians and one of contemporary cinema’s most singular voices. Since the 1970s, Anand Patwardhan has been making committed, intimate portraits of Indian movements for social justice.
Following the destruction of Ayodhya’s Babri Mosque in 1992, Patwardhan (born 1950) began chronicling the rise of Hindu nationalism, which has attained global relevance. Patwardhan’s films offer an invaluable portrait of this moment, which Indian writer Pankaj Mishra has dubbed “the age of anger.” By bringing together the full scope of Patwardhan’s work—rarely seen in the United States—Ways of Struggle contrasts the worlds of left and right political feeling, offering an oblique history of the present.
Stages’ brings a storybook quality to The Fantasticks, its first production inside their new theater complex, The Gordy. As has become a coincidental tradition for Stages, this is their third time producing The Fantasticks during their first season in a new venue. Presenting a story about love, family, and friendship, this show leaves many lessons for the audience to take with them. On-stage through March 15th at The Gordy, everyone should make time to attend The Fantasticks.
