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Margaret Downing

Margaret Downing

Editor in Chief at Houston Press

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Houston Grand Opera Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers Stepping Down in 2026

Continuing a week of changes in Houston's performing arts world, Patrick Summers has announced that he will be stepping down as Houston Grand Opera's Artistic and Music Director at the end of the 2025-26 season. His announcement follows Tuesday's announcement by Dean Gladden, the longtime Managing Director of Alley Theatre,...
about 1 month ago
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Harvard Elementary Parents Come out in Force to Tell HISD to Leave ...

They want their principal back. They want their IB program and the students in it left alone. And they don't want to be told that the New Education System techniques aren't being used at Harvard Elementary when their children and the school's teachers say it is. More than 160 people...
about 1 month ago
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The Janeiad at Alley Theatre: Dealing With A Return That May Never ...

When audience members come to see the world premiere of The Janeiad at Alley Theatre this week, they'll be seeing a commissioned work sparked by a woman whose husband died in 9/11. Playwright Anna Ziegler who was awarded that commission has intertwined the tale of a widow 20 years after...
about 1 month ago
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Employing Magical Thinking to Get Past the Crushing Loss of Loved O...

It's a play about grief that's unsentimental and easy to absorb and so personal. That's how Pamela Vogel describes The Year of Magical Thinking about to open at Main Street Theater. Based on the National Book Award winning book of the same title by renowned author Joan Didion (Slouching Towards...
about 1 month ago
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Secrets and a Romani Curse: Houston Grand Opera's Production of Ver...

"She's the crux of where bel canto beautiful singing meets drama," is how mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis describes her role as Azucena, the Romani woman whose tragic life has only been made worse by her relentless drive for revenge in Il Trovatore (The Troubadour). In this newly commissioned staging for the...
about 1 month ago
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Little Shop of Horrors at TUTS: Horror, Comedy and Reality in One E...

When Simone Gundy takes the stage as  Crystal, one of the DoWop singers in Little Shop of Horrors with Theatre Under the Stars at the Hobby Center it will be a full circle moment for her, she says. "I was actually cast in the show in high school as a senior and...
about 1 month ago
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HGO Offers a Striking New Production of Verdi's Il Trovatore

As the curtain rises, we see a grey wall with graffiti on it. An ominous drum beat sounds and if we needed any more foreshadowing that this story will not be a happy one, we get it shortly as Leonora, proclaiming her love for the mysterious troubadour sings “If I...
about 1 month ago
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Cheyenne Jackson Brings Signs of Life to Houston's Hobby Center

Saying he wanted to branch out beyond concerts and cabaret work, performer Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story, Glee) explained how he came to write "a riskier" act that not only showcases his singing talents but allows his audiences to know so much more about him. "I felt much more exposed,...
about 1 month ago
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Cinderella at Houston Grand Opera: Love Among the Ashes

Cinderella at Houston Grand Opera: Love Among the Ashes
about 1 month ago
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The World Premiere of Love Bomb at Catastrophic: An Interdisciplina...

It starts with taxi dancers, those paid dance partners, in this case reminiscent of the 1930s — although it should be considered timeless says Brian Jucha who is getting ready to world premiere his fifth work with Catastrophic Theatre this month. Creator Jucha (he says calling him a playwright is...
22 days ago
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A Christmas Carol — The Original Ghost Story of Christmas — Returns...

In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit works for Ebeneezer Scrooge, an unhappy, miserly man who takes out his dissatisfactions on others and primarily on the clerk who shares a cold office with him every day. So why doesn't Cratchit reach a breaking point, rear back and tell Scrooge...
15 days ago