Gulf Coast Reading Series
Outgoing senior editors Ryan Bollenbach, Rosa Boshier González, and Leisa Loan will read alongside special guest Patrick Stockwell.
Outgoing senior editors Ryan Bollenbach, Rosa Boshier González, and Leisa Loan will read alongside special guest Patrick Stockwell.
Visit the Museum for a public celebration of the exhibition, Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, the artist's first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, video, and series of commissioned sculptures, the artist continues her decade-long investigation into what it means to call a planet home. Drinks and food will be […]
Introduced by Houston artist David McGee A profound reflection on art, sexuality, and identity, Caravaggio recounts the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the underworld. The film incorporates Caravaggio’s precise aesthetic into the visuals, while touching on all of director Derek Jarman’s major concerns: history, homosexuality, […]
There will be hell to pay640 girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, 1,003 in Spain. As the servant Leporello famously sings in his “Catalogue aria,” the eponymous fiend in Mozart’s sublime tragicomedy Don Giovanni has already been very busy when he beds the engaged Anna and then kills her father in […]
Performance by Moores School Ballet Orchestra & Houston Ballet Academy perf.
The Classical Theatre Company will wrap up its Season of Iconic Women with William Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece, The Taming of the Shrew. Having not produced a Shakespeare piece since Henry V in 2015, nor a Shakespeare comedy since The Merchant of Venice in 2013, CTC is primed and ready to dive into The Bard once […]
World Premiere By Thomas Meloncon The play takes place in an office in a small town in East Texas where the local NAACP chapter is planning a funeral for the “N word”. At the same time, a bigoted white man is on his way to that same office to have a frank discussion with the […]
This is what ‘epic’ sounds like. A massive orchestra and huge chorus join forces in Jones Hall for Orff’s infamous ode to love, drink, and living life to the fullest, Carmina burana. Instantly recognizable thanks to its use in countless movies and commercials, a live Carmina is one of classical music’s most spellbinding and immersive experiences. Conductor Laureate […]
There is a new menace sweeping the nation, ready to ensnare and seduce the youth and drag them down into a life of sin: REEFER MADNESS! In this hilarious, over-the-top satire, the high school drama club, led by the gravely stern Lecturer, illustrates the perils of the “leafy green assassin.” They tell the story of […]
UNSILENT SPRING | MUSIC AND OUR CHANGING PLANET | APRIL 19-20 Etienne Charles Earth Tones World Premiere | DACAMERA co-commission Featuring Etienne Charles Creole Soul Etienne Charles triumphed when his illuminating San Juan Hill: A New York Story was presented by the New York Philharmonic to reopen David Geffen Hall, cementing his reputation for creating […]
The Catastrophic Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Sarah Kane’s CLEANSED "LOVE ME OR KILL ME" In her brief boundary breaking career, Sarah Kane’s work prompted the term “a theatre of extremes,” yet CLEANSED comes soaked through with hope. Explosively aching, hauntingly poetic, and disarmingly tender, Kane delivers a fever-dream fable of unimaginable brutality and […]
Enter a world of talking frogs, lonely horses, conniving turtles and cats who just want to be popular in this modern adaptation of ancient wisdom on family, friendship! A unique blend of theatre and dance, featuring 50 dancers, 10 actors, film and music. Exclusively at Miller Outdoor Theatre! Written and Directed by Tim Fried-Fiori Dances […]