Love Conquers All

The Band's Visit Focuses on Love and Music, Not Politics

The 2017 surprise Broadway smash makes its way to the Hobby Center with a Middle Eastern flair.

01/28/2020 By Holly Beretto

Never Forget

Main Street Theater’s Production of The Diary of Anne Frank Offers a Study in Faith

The production will be accompanied by special programming on the dangers of discrimination.

01/26/2020 By Holly Beretto

Hear, Hear

Houston Chamber Choir Presents 21st Annual Hear the Future Festival

While the Choir hosts its yearly showcase, its founder and artistic director will be at the Grammys.

01/25/2020 By Holly Beretto

A Love Triangle for the (Modern) Ages

Houston Grand Opera's La Favorite Brings a Favorite Performer Back to the Bayou City

World-renowned mezzo Jamie Barton takes on the title role in the Houston premiere of Donizetti's rarely-performed opera.

01/25/2020 By Holly Beretto

Ready to Remember?

Stages Opens New Space With Production of The Fantasticks

The repertory theatre is re-staging an old favorite as its inaugural show in the Gordy.

01/24/2020 By Holly Beretto

OLD MEETS NEW

New MATCH Exhibition Showcases a Modern Twist on Byzantine Iconography

The art exhibition features artist Joni Zavitsanos' mixed media pieces alongside her father's more classical interpretations.

01/23/2020 By Holly Beretto

New Play

Ensemble Theatre's The Green Book Offers Weighty Subjects With Uplifting Message

The play, which is not connected to the Oscar-winning film, makes its regional premiere.

01/21/2020 By Holly Beretto

Truth Hurts

Go See the Latest Play at 4th Wall Theatre Company

'The Realistic Joneses' is about facing truths.

01/16/2020 By Holly Beretto

Put on your Sunday Clothes

Hello, Dolly Breezes into the Hobby Center

Analise Leaming's Irene Malloy is more than a mere ingenue and ready to learn from the titular Yonkers matchmaker.

01/07/2020 By Holly Beretto

Back-in-the-Swing-of-Things Edition

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, Jan. 3-5

The flurry of the holidays is over, and many of us are (reluctantly) getting back to our routines.

01/03/2020 By Holly Beretto

Picture Perfect

Norman Rockwell: American Freedom Puts Americana on Display at MFAH

The exhibit of loaned pieces marks the museum's first major showing of Rockwell's works.

12/31/2019 By Holly Beretto

Get Anime-ted

Enter the World of Kabuki Art Via the Asia Society's Tsuruya Kōkei Exhibit

Explore the Kabuki woodblock roots of Japanese pop art.

12/30/2019 By Holly Beretto

Feliz Navidad

HGO's Christmas Opera Celebrates the Yuletide in Mexico

El Milagro del Recuerdo, a prequel to the hit mariachi opera, recalls the past.

12/09/2019 By Holly Beretto

Can't Scrooge This Up

The Alley's A Christmas Carol Is a Family Affair for the Cratchits

Actors playing the family of Scrooge's beleaguered clerk have their own kids in the show.

12/09/2019 By Holly Beretto

Preview

Opera in the Heights Offers a Beloved Story for the Christmas Season

Amahl and the Night Visitors get a visit from the Magi.

12/06/2019 By Holly Beretto

The Play's the Thing

FemFest Showcases a New Collaboration for Mildred’s Umbrella

The weekend festival spotlights female Israeli playwrights through a new partnership with the Israeli Consulate and the Evelyn R. Rubenstein Jewish Community Center.

12/06/2019 By Holly Beretto

Of Christmas and Chaos

Main Street Theater's Best Christmas Pageant Ever Gets the Spirit of the Season

This youth production channels the joy and craziness of the most wonderful time of the year.

12/05/2019 By Holly Beretto

Theater Preview

Baby Screams Miracle Is a Classic Catastrophic Experience

This Clare Barron play is challenging, odd, and often funny—exactly the kind of show Catastrophic Theatre gravitates toward.

12/03/2019 By Holly Beretto

Not Your Grandmother's Jane Austen

Main Street Theater's The Wickhams Focuses on the Family

This Yuletide sequel explores what happens below stairs when the Wickhams come for Christmas.

11/26/2019 By Holly Beretto

It's-the-Most-Wonderful-Time-of-the-Year Edition

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, Nov. 15–17

From holiday plays to food truck festivals, it's all happening.

11/15/2019 By Holly Beretto