In Tarps I Trust is a dance work by Laura Gutierrez inspired by themes of labor, specifically blue-collar jobs. The work explores the physical labor Gutierrez witnessed throughout her father’s career as a billboard painter, highlighting the materials that were ever present growing up in her household, such as tarps, ladders, and ratchet straps. Using […]
View the nominated short films in the Live Action category from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 10!
Vitacca Ballet presents WOVEN, a program featuring premieres from Tina Kay Bohnstedt and Alana Jones, Hélène Simoneau’s Lighthouse, and Sean Aaron Carmon’s Overlap. In our most ambitious season yet, Vitacca Ballet brings to the stage five world premieres, two unique Houston premieres, and a dance film throughout the 2023/2024 Season.
Bilingual singer/songwriter and lyric translator Amanda Pascali hits the stage with her band of international musicians from Argentina, Cuba, Texas, and beyond on January 9th for an intimate acoustic performance of original music and traditional songs with Mediterranean, Latin, and African influences. Internationally acclaimed, bilingual singer/songwriter and 2021 Houston Chronicle “Musician of the Year,” Amanda […]
The Cultural Center “Our Texas” proudly announces the opening of a poignant photo exhibit, “Resilience in Exile: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience”. This exhibit, featuring the compelling work of photographer Vladimir Frumin, offers a deep, emotional insight into the Ukrainian refugee crisis. The photos capture the stark reality of displacement and loss faced by refugees, symbolized […]
The Moores School Chamber Orchestra, in concert, will feature the 2023 Winner of the Moores School Concerto Competition, Vocal Division, Baritone, Sean Holshouser with music of Korngold, Handel and Ravel. This performance will be conducted by graduate members of the Orchestral Conducting Studio and will also feature additional music of Rameau, Mozart and Saariaho with […]
by RAJIV JOSEPH directed by PHILIP KERSHAW Sports: for some, a trivial diversion; for many others, a way to perceive and experience something greater than ourselves. An opportunity to break away from the ordinary and catch a glimpse of the extraordinary and transcendent, even if only in forty-eight-minute increments. Over a ten-year span, for two […]
Moores School of Music Presents the 26th Annual Jazz Festival
Bruckner wrote symphonies at a size and scale unsurpassed to this day. Immerse yourself in the soaring majesty and sonic power of his monumental Symphony No. 8—so epic it’s the only thing on the program. World-renowned Bruckner master and former Houston Symphony Music Director Christoph Eschenbach leads these performances.
Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in a production of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, in addition to interruptions from the director of ‘the Scottish play’ that’s having its opening night upstairs, is making things […]
The eldest of the famed British musical family of seven musical prodigies, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason possesses dazzling technical skills and spellbinding musicality that have propelled the young musician into the international spotlight. She makes her Houston debut at DACAMERA in a recital featuring an equally exciting Houston premiere: Fanny Mendelssohn’s “Easter” Sonata – first lost […]
Directed by Elizabeth Bunch One of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, Twelfth Night ponders love lost and found. A shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian, but tragedy quickly turns to comedy when they wash up in a land turned upside-down by love. Mistaken identities and role reversals abound in one of Shakespeare’s most inventive romantic romps.
