For over 15 years, TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS, INC. has been licensing popular small cast plays and musicals to theatres throughout the country and internationally as well. Best known as the creator of the hugely popular musical hit, ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE (which was named by AMERICAN THEATRE magazine as one of the top 10 most produced shows), TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS is a boutique licensing company that prides itself for its personalized service to our many client theatres. Other popular shows that TED SWINDLEY PRODUCTIONS licenses include the musicals, THE HONKY TONK ANGELS and THE HONKY TONK...

Synkroniciti is a creative incubator for new art and performance, where generous artists from varied disciplines collaborate to create original work which inspires awareness of the human condition. Based in Houston, Texas, we seek to weave together diverse elements, including visual art, literature, music, theatre, dance, and film. Our latest creation is Synkroniciti Magazine, which seeks to find and amplify new voices from all over the globe. Whether you are an artist who longs to connect more deeply with your inspiration or an art lover who wants to discover something new and exciting,...

In 1997, a friend of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, purchased the former residence of Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso’s mistress from 1936 to 1945. In a five-year effort, the owner rehabilitated and updated this spacious 18th-century, four-story stone residence in the village of Ménerbes in the Lubéron valley of Provence. Her goal was to make it a retreat for scholars, artists, and writers, where they could work undisturbed on their research, art, or writing, for one to three months. In 2006 the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was asked to direct this project, which is now known as the Brown...

Prima Volta is a Houston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to creating performance opportunities for young and upcoming artists, both behind-the-scenes creators and those bringing art to life on stage. Why the name Prima Volta? In music, the term “prima volta” means the “first time,” or first repeat of a section or verse. Prima Volta strives to perform new music and support young artists—the “first time” these pieces have been heard and these performers have been seen. What’s our story? Furman alumni Hailey Darnell (’10), Anna Diemer (’11), Samuel Hunter (’11), and Katie Pollock (’...

Mission: To develop innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines in order to energize a new generation of audiences for theatre.

From its beginnings on the artistic fringe during the Hispanic Civil Rights Movement to its current status as the oldest and most accomplished publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by U.S. Hispanic authors, Arte Público Press and its imprint, Piñata Books, have become a showcase for Hispanic literary creativity, arts and culture.

Callaloo, a journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters based at Texas A&M University, has recently been ranked one of the top 15 literary magazines in the United States by Every Writer’s Resource. Ranked among such periodicals as The New Yorker Magazine, Paris Review, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, andKenyon Review, Callaloo is edited by Dr. Charles Henry Rowell, a professor of English, and published quarterly by the Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore, MD.

We commission and produce original theatre for young audiences that speaks to the needs, dreams, and imaginations of young people and the child that lives inside each of us. Our Productions respect the intelligence of children and offer hope to individuals of all ages. Pollyanna supports general education through teaching, using theatre as a methodology across the curriculum.

In a dramatic move inspired by the pandemic shutdown, Pollyanna Theatre Company will soon offer its entire repertoire of original children’s plays for licensing. As one of the only theatre companies in the country producing exclusively new works for children, Pollyanna has commissioned more than 75 plays over the last 20 years. The company’s plays are both entertaining and educational, designed to inspire young audiences with engaging characters and memorable stories. Like many theatre companies, Pollyanna was forced to pivot during the pandemic. In an effort to not only stay connected with...

For the last decade, we have been blessed to not only be recognized by groups in the theatre industry across the country but have also won a number of national awards including several from the highly coveted Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. In addition, our highly intensive and award-winning play, Clean Sheets, was selected by Woodie King, Jr.-the godfather of Black theatre and the New Federal Theatre in New York City to be a part of Ntozake Shange Reading Series. Our audience is drawn to our stories because of the impact our true-to-life stories.

HBMG Foundation promotes the creative process through sponsored programs that provide educational, networking, and financial resources for the artistic community. The Foundation also builds connections between the artistic and business communities by engaging artists to provide creative solutions to business problems. Through our programs, we present new works that demonstrate imaginative applications of technology to the arts.

In an effort to provide their students with more educational and artistic opportunities, Baylor University has recently restructured and revamped their Musical Theatre concentration. Lauren Weber from Baylor University says, “A part of this restructuring process has been to examine the work that we do with our students and how it compares to current trends in professional musical theatre, and explore ways that we can better prepare our students to take on a variety of roles in professional and educational musical theatre upon graduation. We have added new works into our rotation as a way to...