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The Houston Symphony announced today the details of its free, family-friendly Neighborhood Concerts and ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights.

The Houston Equity Festival is a collection of local professional actors, all members of the union Actors' Equity Association, each of whom is mounting her/his own show during the summer and fall of 2019.

An outstanding cast takes on a very funny book, and the result is shimmering perfection that is just what audiences need to kick off the summer season.

The Ensemble Theatre Artistic Director, Eileen J.

In its 24th season, Gente de Teatro will stage Madenusa, a play by Argentine playwright Claudia Soroka on May 2, 3, 4 & 5, 2019 at Hamman Hall, Rice University.

Da Camera of Houston concludes its 2018 19 season with its unifying finale, Weinberg and Mendelssohn featuring the Daedalus Quartet in their Da Camera debut, along with the Brentano Quartet and Sarah Rothenberg, piano, in performance at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center on Friday, May 10, 2

MURDER FOR TWO is an exciting piece of theater that is daring in its concept and brought to life by Stages with technical pizzazz.

The Houston Symphony and Composer-in-Residence Jimmy Lopez partner with the Rice Shepherd School, the University of Houston (UH) Moores School of Music, and Interfaith Ministries to celebrate the determination and hope of Houston's refugee communities in a project called Resilient Sounds.

Is a realistic portrayal of Japanese people and culture even possible in BUTTERFLY, given that its source material was conceived entirely through a western lens? Can that lens be flipped somehow?

For the first time in over a decade, Houston Ballet brings back Copp lia, a family-friendly treasure created by former Houston Ballet Artistic Director Ben Stevenson OBE.

Theatre Under The Stars announces the winners of the 17th Annual Tommy Tune Awards!

After the success of Vincent Victoria Presents' latest original play 'Hattie's Big Night' in February, the company decided to bring the show back for four additional encore performances this Mother's Day Weekend.

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Main Street Theater (MST) soon opens the ultimate British farce, Alan Ayckbourn's brilliantly constructed Relatively Speaking.

Returning by popular demand, humorist Jeanne Robertson is bringing her Rocking Humor tour to Galveston's Grand1894 Opera House for two grand performances: Friday, June 28 at 8pm and Saturday, June 29 at 4pm.

 The Grand 1894 Opera House presents Kinky Boots - winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical - on Thursday, June 13 at 8pm for just one Grand performance!  Limited tickets are still available and may be purchased at The Grand's Box Office, 2020 Postoffice Street, by calling 409.

AsiaFest, an all-day FREE festival with fun for the whole family, celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

Shabach Enterprise's groundbreaking play festival, Fade To Black, returns for its 7th season of short plays.

A Lie of the Mind explores the destinies of two desperate families, linked by marriage but set apart by jealousies and distrust after a severe incident of spousal abuse leaves all their lives altered.

For its fourth and final production of the season, Opera in the Heights (OH), the opera company that provides a stage for emerging performers and affordable opera to the Greater Houston Area, presents Puccini's enduring classic Madama Butterfly - with a difference.

Imagine getting ready for an evening at the theatre - most of us are excited and eager, anticipating an entertaining evening of dinner or maybe drinks with friends, then the thrill of the curtain rising.

Students from Humphreys School of Musical Theatre and The River Performing and Visual Arts Center are once again joining forces to create a showcase that celebrates the power of inclusivity.

Houston Symphony Music Director Andr s Orozco-Estrada leads Beethoven's Eroica, the first of three exceptional classical subscription concerts that close out the 2018 2019 season.

Da Camera of Houston concludes its 2018 19 season with its unifying finale, Weinberg and Mendelssohn featuring the Daedalus Quartet in their Da Camera debut, along with the Brentano Quartet and Sarah Rothenberg, piano, in performance at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center on Friday, May 10, 2

University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance alumni Brett Cullen and Sally Mayes, stars of the stage and screen, are bringing their work back to their alma mater for the world premiere of 'Contradiction of the Southern Soul.