In his exhibition as the Art League Houston (ALH), 2023 Texas Artist of the Year, Vincent Valdez examines memory and remembrance from both personal and cultural perspectives. His installation piece, Siete Dias/Seven Days, features an installation of twenty-one banners suspended from the gallery's ceiling that showcase a handful of the over 150,000 individuals who have […]
Music is everywhere, so available and ubiquitous that we rarely pause to reflect upon its mysterious power. How could a mere set of vibrational frequencies transport us back to childhood, move us to tears, and facilitate spiritual experience? In the Greek myth of Orpheus, music afforded access to the Underworld, the power to move Hades […]
Carmela Full of Wishes Adapted by Alvaro Saar Rios From the book by Matt de la Peña Illustrated by Christian Robinson Feliz Cumpleaños! It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to tag along with her big brother as he runs the family errands. Passing by the bodega and the lavanderia, Carmela picks a dandelion […]
Saturdays, Through Nov.4*, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.Bring your sorted glass, paper, plastic and aluminum to a recycling station from the City of Houston. Happy Earth Compost will pick up compost. *Not available Oct. 14.
Both perversely pleasurable and pleasurably perverse, Jordan Strafer’s videos are absurd, fantastical, humorous, and, at times, violent meditations on power and the uniquely human capacity to inflict violence, be it physical, psychological, or both. The artist’s first solo museum exhibition, Jordan Strafer: Trilogy presents Strafer’s recent trilogy of videos PEP (Process Entanglement Procedure) (2019), SOS […]
Carmela Full of Wishes Adapted by Alvaro Saar Rios From the book by Matt de la Peña Illustrated by Christian Robinson Feliz Cumpleaños! It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to tag along with her big brother as he runs the family errands. Passing by the bodega and the lavanderia, Carmela picks a dandelion […]
Featuring the Bach Choir, instrumentalists, and the magnificent Bach Organ at Christ the King Lutheran Church, the performance highlights Cantata “Die Elenden sollen essen,” B.W.V. 75, on its 300th anniversary. Admission is free, with donations accepted. Bratwurst and beer will be available for purchase at the Christ the King Oktoberfest on the church grounds after […]
Estimated runtime of 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. Peter returns to his twenty-year high-school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind after an unexpected pregnancy ended their relationship. Standing in Peter's way is Kari's bitter-as-ever resentment, her husband and the fact that Peter still hasn't grown up. […]
Awesome arrangements of many of the fantastic songs from the 80s will be interspersed with hilarious hijinks typical of The Music Box Theater crew. This show will feature classics originally sung by Heart (“These Dreams”), Bonnie Tyler (“Total Eclipse”), Prince (“Purple Rain”), Queen and David Bowie (“Under Pressure”), Don Henley (“Boys of Summer”) and so […]
Chopin International Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho unfurls the shimmering colors and jazzy panache of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Betsy Jolas’s A Little Summer Suite “tickles the ears from the opening twists of the rainstick” (The Times, London). And, dive into a world of psychedelic fantasy and unbridled imagination when Music Director Juraj Valcuha leads Symphonie […]
