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This week, Houston Ballet nods to its beginning as it opens its 2019-2020 season with Giselle.

The Ensemble Theatre and Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center (JCC a?" 'The J') celebrate their first-time collaboration to co-present City of Good Abode by Joshua Ford, an award-winning play detailing the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wit, by Margaret Edson, presented by actor Pamela Vogel, opens for eight performances in a limited run.

To the delight of the audience she covers horror movies, several ghastly tales of the saints, and even unleashes a fashion show where you can dress up as an unlucky martyr to go trick or treating.

With an acting career spanning four decades and film credits including Jurassic Park and Independence Day, legendary actor Jeff Goldblum and his band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, will be presented in an evening of jazz by Society for the Performing Arts (SPA) on Friday, September 20 at 8:00 p.

PAUL HOPE is keeping the Great American Songbook Alive with POPPA DON'T PREACH TO ME: FRANK LOESSER FROM HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY at OVATIONS NIGHT CLUB, located at 2536 Times Blvd Houston, TX 77005, on MONDAYS from September 16 through 30, 2019.

Main Street Theater (MST) opens its 44th Season with Tom Stoppard's newest play, The Hard Problem.

Brave Little Company is theatre for everyone.

The Obsidian Theatre has announced the Houston premiere of The Q Brother's OTHELLO: The Remix, originally presented on Broadway by John Leguizamo.

A new musical, PULSATE: A Vampire Musical, developed by Houston-based artist Faith Fossett will have its first Houston staged reading on August 30th, and August 31st, 2019 at 8 p.

Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning actress and vocalist Renée Elise Goldsberry, original cast member of the musical phenomenon Hamilton, comes home to Houston to open the Houston Symphony's 2019a?"2020 POPS Series alongside conductor Steven Reineke, Sept.

The Texas Repertory Theatre announces its upcoming FREE performance of God's Megaphone: A Visit with CS Lewis in the beautiful 'livable forest' of Kingwood.

Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, opens its 2019/20 season of a?oeNational Treasuresa?? with Dancing at the Palais.

The Houston Symphony closes out its 2019a?"2020 Bank of America Summer Sounds Series by celebrating the pearl (30 year) anniversary of The Little Mermaid, the animated masterpiece that launched the Disney Renaissance in 1989.

Next month, artists of various disciplines and genres as well arts goers will gather at a happening for a night of live performances, arts exhibition, and networking in Houston, Texas.

The Idea Fund is pleased to announce the opening of the 2019a?"2020 Round 12 re-granting cycle.

Rec Room Arts has announced an exhilarating 2019/20 season under the leadership of Artistic Director Matt Hune.

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??Core Dancecelebrates the 'purposeful artistic risk taking, invention, and community participation,' which exemplifies its 40 years of creating dance that is relevant in Houston, Atlanta, and around the globe.

Musiqa, two-time winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, is announcing its 2019-20 season.

The Houston Arts Partners Conference will be held on Sept.

In 1996, Jonathan Larson's rock-opera RENT changed the landscape of American theatre.

Medical Bridges Inc.

The Houston Premiere of Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's mind-blowing, multicultural myth-driven musical, JASPER IN DEADLAND, makes a splash-landing at artFACTORY, August 2 through 18! This rocking new musical follows seventeen-year-old Jasper, as he dives into a deep chasm of the earth in sea

Houston Grand Opera's HGOco presents a?oeExploring Your Creative Identity,a?? a new eight-week course for those 55 and older that offers participants the opportunity to discover and cultivate a variety of creative practices.

Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.