Over three decades after the release of his previous film, revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive) returns with a haunting meditation on memory, absence, and the enduring resonance of the moving image. An aging Spanish filmmaker is asked to recount his memories of working on his final and still unfinished film. […]
Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of Mexico with this group of mariachis and ballet folklorico dancers. More than 50 performers create a magical night with gorgeous costumes, music and culture. The cast is made up of the Guadalajara Folkloric Ballet, the Mariachi Juvenil Colotlán, Pepe and its Pepillos, and the charro flourish champion, […]
An unbroken ancestral line, a mesmerizing fusion of genres The Aba Diop Trio (Aba Diop, Noumoucounda Cissoko, and Jason Hosier) transmits a wholly new genre of West African sabar fusion music. Featuring the propulsive rhythms of Diop’s sabar drum, the dulcet tones of Cissoko’s kora (a 21-stringed double-bridged African harp-lute), and the elastic fluidity of […]
Take-Off with Uptown Dance Company! Celebrating the 25th Anniversary Season, featuring 3 new premiers including founder and artistic director Beth Gulledge-Brown, Resident Choreographer Andre Silva and UDC long time friend and colleague Leonard Lopez. -Shimmer, new work by resident choreographer and principal dancer of Texas Ballet Theatre Andre Silva -Ces't La Vie, new work by […]
A world premiere embodied storytelling event that exemplifies the expression, “leap, and the net shall appear,” as our incoming MFA Acting cohort builds a project like no other. In just over 100 hours of rehearsal, an entire play without words will be conceived, devised, and performed, lead by Adam Noble, head of the MFA Acting […]
Magical Lying Hour celebrates ten years of theatrical improv by stuffing as many past participants as we physically can into Coronation theater for one night of the absurdist, committed improv you've come to expect. You already know the basic deal: one actor, one improviser, the actor doesn't deviate from their script while the improvisers builds […]
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, […]
GRAMMY-nominated Baroque ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston's season opener, In Praise of Virtue, spotlights countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, a “young star” (New York Times) and local favorite since his time in the HGO Studio. Nussbaum Cohen will share the stage with “breakout” soprano (Boston Globe) Hannah DePriest, in her Ars Lyrica debut. This program features two […]
The 15th concert of the concert series "PONCE 243: Complete Piano Works", featuring pianists Timothy Hester, Tali Morgulis, Rodrigo González Barragán, Andrew Staupe, and Omar Herrera Arizmendi, the founder and artistic director of the Ponce Project Music Foundation.
It’s hard to know who your friends are in a world that’s more divided than ever. Recently widowed, Peg tends to the native plants in her 40-acre rural Wisconsin prairie backyard, her solitary days interrupted only by visits from a family friend with a checkered past. When a mysterious theft alerts the authorities, a string […]
The Pilot Dance Project presents an original dance and music collaboration spearheaded by Executive and Artistic Director Adam Castan͂eda. Purple Bromeliads is inspired by the science-fiction work of N.K. Jemison and Octavia E. Butler, as well as the stunning tropical shapes and colors of the bromeliad. The dance explores the interactions and mood of a […]
