This adaptation uses four actors to creatively tell the story of Hamlet in a way you’ve never seen before. Prince Hamlet returns home to Denmark for the funeral of his father and finds that his mother, Gertrude, has married his father’s brother, Claudius, who is...
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...
Vanya and Sonia, two middle-aged siblings begrudgingly named after Chekhov characters, are living an uneventful life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The days are filled with predictable routines until their movie-star sister Masha arrives, accompanied by her charming...
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....
Mise en Scéne is a highly-conceived choreographic performance series in which artists are brought together to interpret tasks, environment, and sound collaboratively in real time before an audience. Over 3 performances, different artists from different pockets of the...
The 17th concert of the concert series “PONCE 243: Complete Piano Works”, featuring pianists Zhu Zhu, Xuefei Liu, Andrew Staupe, and Omar Herrera Arizmendi, the founder and artistic director of the Ponce Project Music Foundation.
The 5th Annual Mariachi Festival comes to Wortham Theater August 23-25, 2024, in partnership with Performing Arts Houston. The Mariachi Festival’s mission is to celebrate and promote our beautiful and lively Hispanic culture, that is such an important part of...
Houston, TX – Get ready to leave your work worries behind and dive into a world of hilarity with the delightful comedy “Office Hours,” by Norm Foster, brought to you by Cone Man Running Productions. Office Hours was originally produced at The Piggery...
Everyday life, forks in the road, and dead ends forcing us to alter course as time moves on are all natural parts of the human experience. Sometimes we aren’t even aware of certain changes until we reflect on our present and the events of the past. We are changed in...
Sawyer Yards presents Earl Staley: The Machine, a diverse showcase of the longtime Houston artist’s works on canvas at Sabine Street Studios’ North Gallery. The artworks chosen for this exhibition are large, densely colorful paintings on canvas that...
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Explore and shop Houston’s rich art scene and meet some of the Black artists and organizations behind it. Open to all ages! Schedule: 11 AM | Tour Meet-up at El Dorado Ballroom 3 PM | Bus Tour Ends Please dress comfortably for light walking and appropriately for...
For her latest solo exhibition, Dance of Gestures, Houston-based Colombian artist Loriana Espinel, takes inspiration from the pre-Columbian pictographs of the Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia to develop a visual system based on the intersection of two different...
Prepare to be spellbound as you join Matilda, a brilliant little girl with a big heart and even bigger dreams, on her extraordinary journey of self-discovery. Packed with laughter, heartwarming moments, and unforgettable songs, this spectacular musical adaptation...
The fully evolved UNBOUND space will be available for viewers to experience as the residency comes to a close. The UNBOUND Outro film, including works from throughout the project, will also be screened.
The fully evolved UNBOUND space will be available for viewers to experience as the residency comes to a close. An artist market consisting of products & services offered by collaborating artists will be available for viewers to shop.
A screening of the short documentary “Life in the Nickel” invites attendees to examine the difference between how communities are viewed from the outside looking in and by those who experience it firsthand. A talkback will be led by a panel of community...
The Collaborative Art & Wellness Session encourages attendees to explore the ways that UNBOUND living can positively affect them in a wholistic way. In phase one, all will be welcomed to use art tools to add their UNBOUND expressions (words, poems, prose,...
Community As Art, Part II invites viewers to become a part of the UNBOUND project through portraits and performance. Phase one of this night welcomes attendees to be photographed in a luxe setting – select images will be displayed in the residency space. Phase...
