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On October 6, Houston Symphony Associate Conductor Robert Franz will wave his baton and cast a spell over the entire audience to kick off the 2012-13 Family Season with Wands and Batons - The Music of Harry Potter and More.

The Gexa Energy Broadway at the Hobby Center 2012-2013 season contains both new hits and familiar Broadway favorites.

After 12 years, Mercury Baroque drops the "Baroque", starting fresh as Mercury - The Orchestra Redefined.

The main purpose and goal of Houston Ballet's WOMEN@ART is to celebrate the ability of women to choreograph interesting, thought-provoking, and fully realized ballets.

Houston Grand Opera announced today that the award-winning Broadway legend Tommy Tune and style icon Lynn Wyatt will join the cast of HGO's new production of Show Boat, January 18 - February 9, 2013.

In October, 1998, a 21 year old man was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die in the middle of a prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, because he was gay.

SRO Productions Presents [title of show], with Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen, Book by Hunter Bell, October 18 - November 3, 2012.

MUSIQA, Houston's leading contemporary classical music organization, opens its fall season with the world premiere of Grawemeyer-award-winning composer Sebastian Currier's Deep Sky Objects at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall tonight, September 22 at 7:30 PM.

On October 5, 6 and 7, Broadway divas Nicole Parker and Alli Mauzey will sing with the Houston Symphony in a Pops performance featuring powerhouse songs from Wicked, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera, Titanic and other popular songs from Broadway and Hollywood.

In 1975, Main Street Theater began with a dream of bringing quality theatre to Houston audiences.

Houston's Theatre Community offers something for everyone-ranging from the very modern and experimental to the classics.

Main Street Theater announces its 38th MainStage Season and 33rd Theater for Youth Season.

In celebration of today's holiday, International Speak Like a Pirate Day, the Houston Symphony is excited to announce a performance of "Disney Live in Concert: Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl" on May 30, 2013.

Theatre Under The Stars' (TUTS) Humphreys School of Musical Theatre (HSMT) performed LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, September 14 - 16, 2012 and featured an all-teen cast made entirely of local high school students.

Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan! Filled with tunes including "Neverland" and "I Won't Grow Up," the young and young-at-heart will relive the wonder of one of the most beloved family musicals on December 11th to 23rd, 2012 at TUTS.

The Ensemble Theatre is set to debut its 36th season with a regional premiere, The Nacirema Society by Pearl Cleage, with an Opening Night and Media Reception, Thursday, September 27, 2012, 6:30 p.

Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) presents PETER PAN, December 11 - 23, 2012 at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts.

Main Street Theater's production of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's LIFE IS A DREAM, translated by Nilo Cruz, began previews on Saturday, September 15, 2012.

Rains are coming and going, altering the barometric pressure in the air and creating what feels like a mix between a pressure cooker and sauna.

MUSIQA, Houston's leading contemporary classical music organization, opens its fall season with the world premiere of Grawemeyer-award-winning composer Sebastian Currier's Deep Sky Objects at the Hobby Center's Zilkha Hall on Saturday, September 22 at 7:30 PM.

The Grammy-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston kicks off its 2012-13 season this Friday, Sept.

Classic theatre comes to Katy this month with the incredibly entertaining production of The Fantasticks, directed by Elizabeth Mace, at Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC), and performed by Encore Players, Katy's premier community theatre.

In our current culture, it is impossible to escape tales of the apocalypse.

What is life? What is this world? What is real, and what is only illusion? Pedro Calderon de la Barca's sweeping play LIFE IS A DREAM explores these questions that resonate in our souls.

"Tartuffe, or the Imposter," is perhaps Moliere's most famous comic masterpiece.