Colossal Lifelike Lego Sculptures Bloom at Houston Botanic Garden

HOUSTONIANS WILL LIKELY remember El Paso-born artist Troy Montes Michie from two group shows at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH): Outside the Lines (2013) and Stonewall 50 (2019), which was inspired by the 1969 Stonewall riots and emergence of the LGBT civil rights movement. Now 37, Montes Michie’s first solo museum exhibition, Rock of Eye — a visually dazzling and politically provocative collection of collages, drawings, and mixed-media works, including a 40-foot-long collage inspired by the “Chicana matriarchs” in his family — opens at CAMH Friday, Sept. 23.

ELEANOR HOLDRIDGE COULDN'T be more pleased to be directing the Alley Theatre world premiere of Lend Me A Soprano, playwright Ken Ludwig’s gender-flipped version of his Tony Award-winning play Lend Me A Tenor. Revised by Ludwig, this remix of one of the 20th century’s greatest farces, with the lead characters now re-imagined as women, retains all of the door-slamming, screwball madness of the original, but is imbued throughout with a more “feminine” subtext. “It’s a horrible thing to say,” laughs Holdridge, “but I wouldn’t want a man to be directing it!”