Arts & Culture

Like most other music groups, SOLI Chamber Ensemble has been sidelined by COVID-19. But they're finding their musical way through the cultural wasteland that is the coronavirus.  

The UTSA Music Department’s original plan for a spring production didn’t go as expected but the group worked out an interesting alternative.

Sarah Willis, a member of the Berlin Philharmonic for 19 years, speaks of her new solo album, Mozart y Mambo, what it's like to be part of the Berlin Philharmonic sound and how she learned to dance to Cuban music.  

The Doseum in San Antonio has chosen its annual Artist in Residence recipient. Houstonian Sarah Sudhoff will produce a large installation at the Doseum which will show how some children with dyslexia see the world.

Born and raised in the Midwest, writer/director Karen Maine attended parochial school from kindergarten to the 12th grade. She was baptized and confirmed, and tried (sort of) to be the best Catholic she could be – mostly out of fear.

“I remember being scared that anything bad I did, I’d go to Hell, or that God was watching me if I was doing anything I shouldn’t be doing,” Maine said in an interview by phone earlier this week. “It wouldn’t prevent me from doing (those things), it would just make me feel really bad.”

Jacob Soboroff was working as a correspondent for NBC and MSNBC at the end of 2015, covering immigration on the US-Mexico border. On the occasion of a press tour inside a detention facility in Brownsville where 1500 young boys were being held and where reporters were not allowed to bring in recording equipment, Jacob Soboroff put pen to paper, writing notes and filling the pages of a small notebook. Those notes became the seedbed of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, an expansive, complex, and multi-layered story about the immigration crisis and the policy that separates families seeking asylum in the United States.

In the ever-evolving landscape that is COVID-19, arts organizations have been innovating and flexing in an attempt to ride with the changes. One of those organizations is the Jump Start Theatre.