Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.
"Tacita Dean: Blind Folly" is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.
THE MOORS, by Jen Silverman Guest Director: Sophia Watt This whimsical satire follows a governess arriving to her new appointment with the hopeful promise of Gothic romance, only to find an oddball household, a mastiff, and a hen. The dissonant mix of modern sensibilities and classical expectations in this black comedy turns Brontë on its […]
Celebrate 17th Indian Film Festival of Houston (IFFH) on February 21-22, 2025 at the Asia Society Texas Center in the Museum District, one of Houston's seven vibrant Cultural Districts, where art, history, and community converge to create a tapestry of creativity and diversity. The event will offer attendees a unique opportunity to learn about India’s […]
by HAROLD PINTER directed by SOPHIA WATT From the final meeting of two lovers to the inception of an illicit affair, a love triangle unfolds backward as power dynamics shift in exhilarating and unexpected ways in Harold Pinter’s masterpiece. The most fundamental axioms of love and friendship are open for reassessment, as we witness Emma, […]
book and lyric by STEVEN SATER music by DUNCAN SHEIK based on the play by FRANK WEDEKIND directed by MATT HUNE A story of adolescent anarchy, of teenagers silenced and controlled by a censoring society, and the devastating consequences of the freedom students find outside of the classroom. 'Spring Awakening,' the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning musical, […]
by ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIG translated by DAVID TUSHINGHAM directed by BRADLEY MICHALAKIS Christmas Eve: Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy. Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays, which is awkward, not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train, and now she’s invited him over for dinner. 'Winter Solstice,' a razor-sharp comedy by […]
Seven Assassins Walk into a Bar World Premiere By Dain Geist February 8, 2025 – March 2, 2025 Previews: February 2, 6 & 7 Seven assassins walk into a bar… No, it’s not the start of a joke; it’s the title of the brand new play by Houston actor/playwright Dain Geist. The play takes place […]
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks' latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, […]
Ray, 56, has a new identity, a new life, and is trying to put the past behind him. Una, 27, thinks of nothing else. When Una arrives at Ray's new office unannounced, guilt, rage, and raw emotions run high as they reexamine the relationship they had 15 years ago. Never able to reconcile the brutal […]
THE MOORS, by Jen Silverman Guest Director: Sophia Watt This whimsical satire follows a governess arriving to her new appointment with the hopeful promise of Gothic romance, only to find an oddball household, a mastiff, and a hen. The dissonant mix of modern sensibilities and classical expectations in this black comedy turns Brontë on its […]
Bach’s masterpiece! Deeply moving and powerful: Bach puts his immense genius to a musical retelling of the events leading up to Christ’s crucifixion. Like Handel’s Messiah, a full compliment of singers and four soloists add dramatic weight and emotional power to what is a deeply moving work threaded with themes of sacrifice, redemption, and hope. […]
