Depending on the season, tourists arriving in Houston are encouraged to take in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Art Car Parade, the nearby Space Center Houston. Good recommendations all. With the arrival of summer, one thing they might but shouldn’t miss, is another Houston institution: the latest musical from actress and playwright Tamarie
In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she may be overcharged at the register. For a moment as I read the play, I thought: trans rights and inflation, check—two
It is a scenario easily understandable to most Houstonians used to dealing with the sudden calamities of nature. They’re hurrying to get in supplies before a hurricane or ice storm hits and perhaps they’ve tried to stretch time too far. Suddenly the power goes out and for a time, however brief or long, they are