Rachel Cook News

On Mar. 15, 16, and 17, 2024, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) will present the West Coast premiere of NOTHING#31: a bar, a bluff from acclaimed New York-based artist Autumn Knight. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

OtB will make a momentous, transformative return to in-person programming with a fall festival, The New Now Festival. The Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance, creating new pathways between forms and between the worlds created within the building and the world outside.

On The Boards and The Chocolate Factory Theater have announced the world premiere of attend the opening, a new mail art project by Seattle-based writer, performer & interdisciplinary artist Kristen Kosmas. This project marks the launch of a multi-year co-commissioning initiative between the two institutions, supported by the Onassis Foundation USA.

DiverseWorks will welcome Portland, OR-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto and his collaborator, performance artist sidony o'neal, to Houston, February 13 - 17, 2017.

DiverseWorks has announced the opening of its spring exhibition, The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People, on view in the gallery at 3400 Main Street, April 30 - May 28, 2016. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 30, 6 – 9 pm, featuring the performance Meadow, at 8 pm.

DiverseWorks is pleased to announce the speakers for the Spring 2016 Diverse Discourse Lecture and Studio Visit Series:

DiverseWorks is pleased to announce the opening of its inaugural exhibition, What Shall We Do Next? curated by DiverseWorks' Associate Curator Rachel Cook, at its new location at the MATCH (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) on January 14, 2016. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery at 3400 Main Street through March 19, 2016.

DiverseWorks has announced that it will be moving to the MATCH (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) in December 2015. This transition marks an exciting moment in DiverseWorks' 33-year history. The new facility at the MATCH will provide unique opportunities for artists to create work and experiment with new art forms in multiple gallery and theater spaces.

DiverseWorks announces that the Board of Directors has appointed Xandra Eden as new Executive Director & Chief Curator. Eden will officially assume her new position on June 26, 2015, coinciding with the opening of DiverseWorks' Artist Board exhibition.

DiverseWorks has announced its continuing DWOW events as part of its DiverseWorks on Wednesdays series. Details below!

On June 12, 2013, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the world's most popular dance companies, kicked off its seven performance engagement at the David H. Koch Theater. The performance marked the Company's historic return to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the first time in over a decade and its first engagement there led by Artistic Director Robert Battle. Scroll down for photos from the opening festivities!

Howard McGillin, who holds the record for longest run as the Phantom in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, dropped by the Sirius/XM's Live On Broadway radio show yesterday and shared exciting news about his upcoming projects.

'Ice Man/Malibu' - The squad 'goes Hollywood,' investigating the high profile homicide of a movie star who had been filming in Detroit. Actress Kristin Keller was many things to many people -- a meal ticket to some, a lover to others. But Fitch, Washington and Mason have to unmask her secret life, the life unknown to her fans, to find the murderer. Meanwhile, the strange case of a young homeless man found upside down encased in ice in a shantytown confounds Longford, Mahajan, Stone and Sanchez. The detectives discover that the transient had another totally different life before his descent into hell, as they piece together the puzzling clues in his chilling demise, on 'Detroit 1-8-7,' TUESDAY, JANUARY 4 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

'Ice Man/Malibu' - The squad 'goes Hollywood,' investigating the high profile homicide of a movie star who had been filming in Detroit. Actress Kristin Keller was many things to many people -- a meal ticket to some, a lover to others. But Fitch, Washington and Mason have to unmask her secret life, the life unknown to her fans, to find the murderer. Meanwhile, the strange case of a young homeless man found upside down encased in ice in a shantytown confounds Longford, Mahajan, Stone and Sanchez. The detectives discover that the transient had another totally different life before his descent into hell, as they piece together the puzzling clues in his chilling demise, on 'Detroit 1-8-7,' TUESDAY, JANUARY 4 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

Only 5 days until Luck of the Draw 8: When Art Attacks! The 2009 DiverseWorks Summer Auction. DATE: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 TIME: 6:30pm Cocktails & Blind Auction

Only 5 days until Luck of the Draw 8: When Art Attacks! The 2009 DiverseWorks Summer Auction. DATE: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 TIME: 6:30pm Cocktails & Blind Auction