Featured Stories

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  Innovation in Art and Design - Preston Gaines Reflects on his time As Artist in Residence

  Artist, architect, and industrial designer, Preston Gaines, has created celebrated installations throughout Houston.
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  Moores School of Music Alumni Makes Broadway History

  Kanisha Feliciano, ‘19, became the first Latina and second Black woman to perform the role of Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera”.
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  Faculty, Alumni and Students Collaborate on Educational Video for Breast Cancer Medication

  Representatives from the College of Pharmacy, the School of Theatre & Dance, and the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication are producing the video to improve medication adherence in Black women.
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  K67 Kiosk: For Urban Imagination Brings A Unique Experience of Sight and Sound to the University of Houston

  A collaboration among professors and students made possible in part by The Mitchell Center through an Innovation Grant.
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  University of Houston Moores School of Music Names Formosa Quartet as Quartet-in-Residence

  The quartet will perform two February concerts announcing their residency at UH. The quartet's appointment supports the school's string and chamber music programs, with individual ensemble coaching, master classes and public performances.
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  Moores School Of Music To Present 25th Anniversary Jazz Festival This February

  The 2023 installment of the festival coincides with the launch of the new jazz studies degree program at the school.
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  Sondheim on Sondheim

  Interview with co-stage directors, Nicole Kenley-Miller and Lawrence Edelson about the World of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM
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  UH Professor & Artistic Director, Lawrence Edelson, Informs Us About His Tenure at Opera Saratoga

  'The Sarathogian' grants the honor of showcasing our fellow UH professor his tenure and how his work will benefit the Moores School of Music in the training of emerging artists.
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  Earth of Houston

  Mitchell Center Visiting Artist Alan Sonfist creates new works at The University of Houston.
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  UH Graphic Design Professor and Students Contribute to New Book on Harvey Flooding

  More City than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas incorporates maps created by School of Art seniors.
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  UH Professor Rick Lowe Shares His Vision For Community Engaged Art

  In the second of a four-part series on artists and social practice, Lowe shares his vision for community engaged art.
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  UH Senior Playwright To Debut New Play As Part Of 2022-23 Season

  Jaurius Norman’s senior project Fish’s Belly comes to the stage this November.
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  Award-Winning Director José Zayas Brings "Marisol" to UH

  Zayas Sits Down With Stage Management Student Joseph Blanchard to Discuss His Life and Work.
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  UH Dance Fellow to Stage Site-Specific Performances Celebrating Street Basketball Culture

  Key’Aira Lockett, the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Dance Fellow, turns pandemic woes into a celebration of community and culture with [ HOME TEAM ].

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  Celebrated Broadway Actor and UH Alum Returns to Campus to Teach New Course

  Sally Mayes is coming back to helm a new course at the McGovern College of the Arts titled “Song Performance for Musical Theatre.
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  UH Students to Learn 'Healing Power of Music

  University of Houston to Add New Degree Program in Music Therapy.University of Houston to Add New Degree Program in Music Therapy.
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  Moores Opera Center has taken first prize for the second year in a row for Best University Opera Performance

  The 2020 production of Don Giovanni at MOC has won the American Prize for best university opera performance. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation's most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts.
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  Houston Contemporary Dance Company Tackles Pandemic's Impact on Mental Health

  Viola is choreographed by Keerati Jinakunwiphat and will be performed by the Houston Contemporary Dance Company at Healing Arts Houston conference this fall.
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  Houston Poet Laureate Outspoken Bean's Message of Climate Action Comes to Healing Arts Houston

  Bean will lead a breakout session focused on environmental injustices and their impacts at the Healing Arts Houston conference this fall.

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  UH Stage Management Alum Is Alliance Theatre's New BIPOC Stage Management Fellow

  The Alliance Theatre has named UH Stage Management Alum, Kacie Pimentel, its National Vision, Inc. BIPOC Stage Management Fellow for the 2022-23 season.
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  UH MFA Alum Joins 2022 Season of Prestigious Utah Shakespeare Fest

  Philip Orazio, ‘13, recently joined the casts of All’s Well That Ends Well and King Lear.
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  Houston Street Artist Gonzo247 Explores Pandemic's Impact On City Through Graffiti

  Inspired by community responses, the artist’s series is now on exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum.

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  HoustonPress Reviews Houston Shakespeare Festival's 2022 Season

  "When our esteemed Houston Shakespeare Festival stays true to the spirit and tenor of Shakespeare, the results can be terribly good, near great. The indomitable tragedy King Lear is in loving hands this 47th season, an affecting production in which all invest their most." - HP

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  UH Alumni Returns for Houston Shakespeare Festival

  Wesley Whitson, an artist born and raised in Houston, began his professional career at the University of Houston. Whitson tell us about his education and career as he returns to perform in Houston Shakespeare Festival this summer.
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  July 19 to be proclaimed José Longoria Day in Houston

  Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner honors University of Houston’s Mariachi Pumas director and educator José Longoria with a special proclamation recognizing his significant contributions to the city’s cultural landscape.
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  Flamenco scholar Dr. M. Gabriela Estrada joins University of Houston’s dance faculty

  The University of Houston Dance Program recently named to its full-time faculty Dr. M. Gabriela Estrada, a bilingual multidisciplinary educator, choreographer, journalist, and filmmaker.
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  Blaffer Art Museum Presents First Solo Museum Exhibition

  The Blaffer Art Museum presents the first solo exhibition of Oakland-based artist and University of Houston alumna Maria A. Guzmán Capron.
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  UH MFA Acting Alumni Brothers to Return for Summer Shakespeare Festival

  Brothers Caleb and Kyle Clark, both UH MFA Acting alumni, will return to perform in the 2022 season of the Houston Shakespeare Festival this summer. They join talented casts in both King Lear and Cymbeline.
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  UH MFA Candidates Launch G5 Collective to Give Back to the Houston Arts Community

  Liz Gates and Doug Welsh, two graduating UH MFA, Art students, launched the G5 Summer Intensive in 2021 to support graduate art students unable to obtain summer residencies due to the pandemic.

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  Culture Map Covers UH's Marvelously Monstrous Musical Classic Starring a Scene-Stealing Killer Plant

  In a first-ever, full-scale collaboration between the University of Houston's students and faculty from its Moores School of Music and the School of Theatre & Dance, the university presents the beloved musical Little Shop of Horrors.
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  UH Associate Professor Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography

  From her first name to her life’s work, Keliy Anderson-Staley, associate professor of photography and digital media at the University of Houston, has always embraced the unconventional.
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  Houston Chronicle Meet UH’s Bigger, Badder Flesh-Eating Flower for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

  When University of Houston alumni Afsaneh Aayani and Corey Nance had a chance to put their own spin on the iconic monster for the University of Houston production that launches May 27, they wanted it bigger, badder, and more frightening.
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  Art History Professor Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Upcoming Book

  Sandra Zalman, associate professor of art history, was awarded the 2022 Senior Fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation. The fellowship will support her upcoming book The Modern Remodeled: Museums of Modern Art at Mid-Century and the Construction of the Canon.

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  Houston CityBook Magazine talks with Dean Davis about UH's first musical

  UH’s ‘Little Shop’ to Highlight School’s Broader New Curricula, Now Including American Musical Theater
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  Alumni Spotlight: Demetria Thomas

  Alumni returns to lead the SOTD's return to live Theatre!
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  Alumni Spotlight: Kaarin Phelps

  Accomplished film and television actor leads Moores Opera Center singer-actors in a masterclass.
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  The Power of Art: Paving the Way for Social Justice Curriculum

  The Arts Leadership program wins a competitive grant to launch a new class: ARLD 4397/6395 - Arts and Social Justice. 
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  Music Business Mogul Mathew Knowles to Teach Master Class

  Knowles is now sharing his “secret sauce” for success with the masses in a virtual, 15-week master class at the University of Houston.
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  Student Spotlight: ShaWanna Renee Goffney

  A Q&A with Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, Arts Leadership Student, ShaWanna Renee Goffney.