Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just...isn’t. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship? The plot thickens when this pair meets […]
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 […]
Louis-Marie Fardet performs Bach works for solo cello.
A straight play about the harrowing journey of 12 men as they deliberate the fate of an accused murderer comes to life by local community members. A phenomenally tragic portrayal of destiny and decisions by men old and young. Some of these local suburbians are life time actors, while others are complete strangers to the […]
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The Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) and the Houston Museum for African American Culture (HMAAC) are teaming up with the DeLUXE Theater for a screening of Mahogany. Come dressed in your best 1970s fashion and join us in honoring the DeLUXE Theater's history of being a premier Black movie theater and celebrating classic Black Cinema. […]
"Unaccompanied," a program of new music for solo cello commissioned and performed by Boston-based cellist Leo Eguchi, explores personal stories of immigration and American identity. Each of the commissioned works is by immigrant and first-generation American composers tasked with tackling the question, “What does your American-ness sound like?” Being a mixed-race, first-generation American, I grappled […]
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
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 […]
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.
This exhibition presents the innovative art made by the Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) while she was living in New York City from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Renowned for her adoption of industrial process, found commercial materials and early work with neon light, she stands at the forefront of American art in the […]
