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Dashing Through The Snow opens Today, November 23rd and runs Todays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm weekends through December 14th.

Main Street Theater introduces Houston to this delightful play which has only been produced twice before in the U.

In a regional premiere, Black Lab Theatre presents THE SUBMISSION, the award-winning, controversial comic-drama that questions the reality of America's post racial world.

If you haven't seen it yet, you still have a little bit of time to see GIRLS ONLY - THE SECRET COMEDY OF WOMEN.

Celebrating the beginning of the Christmas season, the Houston Symphony led by Associate Conductor Robert Franz invites families to experience the Hip Hoppin' Nutcracker on December 8th.

Stages continues its new holiday tradition with this whimsical all-ages spin on the beloved nursery rhymes of Mother Goose.

The Alley Theatre in Houston has been annually producing a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas since 1988.

I have to admit, it's hard for me to get exited about stage adaptations of the Cinderella story.

Linda Kelin and Barbara Gehring, met as adults and instantly realized they should have been friends as kids.

As the holiday season approaches, Gerald LaBita and the Houston Arts Scene are saying a fond farewell to Theater LaB Houston's venue on Alamo Street in the First Ward Arts District.

The Red Door Theatre Company's A Christmas Carol will bring you closer to the true spirit of the Holiday season and will transform your opinions about the classic tale that has captured our imaginations for almost 200 years, running November 30th - December 16th.

Main Street Theater collaborates with MECA Houston (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts) to present a Mexican Pastorela, La Música del Cielo (Music from Heaven), written and directed by Peter Webster.

On December 1 and 2, Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony will welcome internationally renowned pianist Martin Helmchen in an evening of serenely powerful music.

Mavis and Myrtle are at it again with more fun, dysfunction and a sleigh full of terrific singing that would make any Scrooge get up and boogie the night the away with their new Holiday show - HOME FOR THE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY HOLIDAYS! Written, composed and performed by Julia Kay Laskowski and Patt

Houston's seasonal favorite A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas returns to light up the Holiday Season downtown on the Hubbard Stage November 16 to December 24.

Theatre Under The Stars Presents Man of La Mancha, February 26 - March 10, 2013 at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, Houston, Texas.

This year's Holiday Show will be the popular classic "A Christmas Story", running November 30th to December 16th at Clear Creek Community Theatre, with special appearances by Santa at most matinees! Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9 year old Ralphie

Dashing Through The Snow opens Friday, November 23rd and runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm weekends through December 14th.

With rave reviews for Puccini's La boheme and Rossini's Italian Girl in Algiers to its credit, Houston Grand Opera's season is up and running.

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Based on the endearing Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Main Street Theater's Theater for Youth is presenting a feel good children's holiday show that the whole family can enjoy.

Cirque du Soleil has announced that the critically-acclaimed production Quidam will be performing in Houston from March 6 to March 10, 2013 at the Toyota Center for eight performances only.

Nordstrom's may not be ready to get into the Christmas spirit before November 27, but Stages Repertory Theatre is reprising last year's wildly popular musical celebration of the season.

Join Anthony Bourdain and his good friend Eric Ripert - both internationally renowned chefs, authors and television hosts - as they share stories and muse on the place of food in our personal, community and global life.