Features

Houston performance artist and CHamoru entrepreneur Shylah Salas talks Butoh, business, and building belonging ahead of Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Performing Arts Houston gives singer-songwriter Ben Chavez the room to expand his 2025 New/Now piece Last Day, County Fair into a full-length concept musical premiering this September at the Wortham Center.

Houston-based cellist Nathaniel Cook joins the Recording Academy's Class of 2026, bringing a queer voice — and a genre-spanning career — to the table shaping the Grammy Awards.

The Garden Theatre skates the cult Broadway musical into MATCH this August, with producing artistic director Logan Vaden calling it "children's theater for middle-aged gay folks."

Choreographer Harrison Guy brings his personal history with Prairie View A&M to the stage in Dear Prairie View, an evening-length work tracing HBCU life from Juneteenth to today.

Ahead of her long-awaited sophomore album, Houston singer-songwriter Sara Van Buskirk headlines the sixth Annual Miller Summer Mixtape — blending Americana and folk influences with radical, queer-forward honesty.

Fifteen years after meeting at Texas A&M, actor Brock Hatton and scenic artist Lee Barker share the stage at the Houston Shakespeare Festival — one performing, one building the world around him.

The fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the latest in a series of migrant deaths while in federal custody or interacting with agents in Texas since President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025.

Tom Griffiths doesn't lead with statistics. The ACCT outreach coordinator leads with connection. And for the people he serves across Galveston's Gulf Coast, that makes all the difference.

On International Non-Binary People's Day, Riot Stanley, Nore Gonzalez, and Ethan Michelle Ganz share what it means to live authentically outside the binary in Houston.