Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner honors Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz at a public reception on May 20, 2019 at the Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library. (Photo Credit: Courtesy of City of Houston)
Houston Poet Laureate Leslie Contreras Schwartz speaks at a celebratory public reception on May 20, 2019 at the Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library. (Photo Credit: Courtesy of City of Houston)
L-R: Debbie McNulty (Director, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs), Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson (Director, Houston Public Library), Leslie Contreras Schwartz (Houston Poet Laureate) & Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (Photo Credit: Courtesy of City of Houston)
Dan Knechtges, TUTS Artistic Director (Photo Credit: www.danknectges.com)
The Cast of the TUTS production of "Jerome Robbins’ Broadway" (Photo Credit: Erick Velazquez)
Giselle O. Alvarez as “Maria” and Tyler Hanes as “Tony” in the TUTS production of "Jerome Robbins’ Broadway" (Photo Credit: Melissa Taylor)
The Cast of the TUTS production of "Jerome Robbins’ Broadway" (Photo Credit: Melissa Taylor)
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Ernie Manouse talks with Dan Knechtges, artistic director of Theatre Under The Stars, about the rarely-staged 1989 Tony Award-winning musical Jerome Robbins' Broadway. A love letter to Broadway's golden age, this musical anthology wraps up TUTS' 50th Anniversary Season and includes scenes from On the Town, Peter Pan, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story.
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While growing up in Chicago and Houston, Catherine’s love for art, music and creative writing was influenced by her teachers and parents. She was once concertmaster of the Clear Lake High School Orchestra and a four-time violinist of the Texas All-State Symphony. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Catherine...
