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QFest, Houston's International LGBTQ Film Festival, proudly celebrates 2021 with its final film slate marking 25 years of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer cinema with the aptly titled “SWAN SONG” starring Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans, and Michael Urie as its final farewell

Led by Reineke, the electrifying program showcases Bennett in a journey through the decades of iconic hits from the Swing Era to classics by Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Glenn Miller, and more backed by the full complement of the Houston Symphony Big Band.

Next month, the Houston Symphony's annual free Fiesta Sinfónica concert returns to Jones Hall after a yearlong COVID-induced absence with a vibrant and rhythmic program under the direction of guest conductor Rafael Enrique Irizarry, Oct.

Nominations are now open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Streaming theatre, in-person, and more are included.

February introduces two Houston premieres with short plays Burden of Proof by Houston's own Cris Eli Blak, and Wedding Bash by Andrew Leeds and Lindsay Kraft.

Last spring, Catastrophic dispatched teams to the backyards and driveways of audience members to perform entirely original work in a masked, socially distanced format for no more than 10 audience members at a time.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, will kick off its 2021–22 season with Garrick Ohlsson: An Evening of Chopin at Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 7 p.

The Woman in The Mirror is a new play based on Texas Radio Hall of Famer and entrepreneur Dayna Steele's 2016 book, Surviving Alzheimer's With Friends, Facebook and a Really Big Glass of Wine.

Pilar Andújar began her dance training at the early age of seven and holds degrees in Spanish Dance, Flamenco and Ballet, as well as a Master of Performing Arts.

Orozco-Estrada launches the 2021–22 Classical Series with works by Beethoven, and the world premiere Houston Symphony commission of a new orchestral arrangement of 19th-Century Afro-European composer George Bridgetower’s Henry, a Ballad, for Fortepiano and Voice.

Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, has announced its catalogue of community programming that includes bilingual, social-emotional, and a bespoke storybook performance alongside a broad curriculum of supporting materials.

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is now offering single tickets to the 2021–22 season at HGO.

Next month, the Houston Symphony and Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke open the 2021–22 Season with two sensational programs at Jones Hall: the Bank of America POPS program, Once Upon a Time: Alan Menken's Broadway, Sept.

The Texas Repertory Theatre announces the triumphant arrival of TENDERLY: The Rosemary Clooney Musical to Houston's Midtown Arts and Theatre Center.

In a countdown to Halloween 2021, Time Warp World announces an exclusive one-night-only debut engagement at Silver Street Studios in Houston, TX on Saturday, October 30th.

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company will return to live performances with their 20th SEASON!  Once called ‘the little company that could” by the Houston Press, Mildred’s was formed in 2001 by Jennifer Decker and John Harvey in order to produce one of Harvey’s plays.

Due to the health and safety concerns with which we have all become too familiar, now made worse by Covid variants, overrun hospital capacities, and the rapidly growing case rates in Houston, Harris County, and the state of Texas, Catastrophic has delayed its planned season opener.

Featuring contrasting interpretations of the Herculean myth by both Bach and Handel, the concert marks the homecoming for the ensemble to the Hobby Center on Friday, September 24, 2021 at 7:30 p.

After raising families and building careers, three best friends have reunited for the first time since college to take their chance at winning American Starmaker, the hit television singing competition auditioning today!

Individual tickets to all the announced Houston Symphony 2021–22 Classical and POPS concerts are now available via houstonsymhony.

The band is touring in support of their critically-acclaimed album 'We Saw Blue.

Open Dance Project, Houston Botanic Garden, and Musiqa co-present “Still We Tend” Sept.

​​​​​​​The Harry Potter Film Concert Series returns to Jones Hall with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Concert, the sixth film in the Harry Potter series.

Following a delay lasting more than a year, Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

ISHIDA Dance Company presents Faraway, So Close, an evening of thought-provoking world premieres in contemporary dance: new works based on original poetic narratives that invite existential questions.