Rainbow on Ice is Discovery Green’s annual LGBTQ celebration on The Ice powered by Green Mountain Energy. This year’s Houston-themed event is the ultimate dance party, with music by DJ Joe Ross, a performance by H-Town’s R & B princess JaeRene, electrifying drag performances such as Blackberri as Lizzo and a fashion show with designs …
Theatre Suburbia presents Sam Haven’s murder mystery, “Murder At The Book Club”. This is one club where members' lives are not an open book! Tonight's meeting of the Queen Anne Murder Mystery Book Club takes a dark twist when a threatening telephone call sets the group on edge. Suddenly all the lights go out and …
Our annual celebration of the beginning of the season of carnival. This will be a fun event with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, a parade of mini floats (with prizes for the best) and just a general good time. Tickets are available at eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twelfth-night-tickets-86204771793?aff=ebdssbdestsearch for $40 - tickets at the door will be $45.
HOUSTON — (Jan. 14, 2020) – Rice University Theatre will present David Ives’ collection of short comedies “All In The Timing.” Showtimes will run on February 28 & 29 at 8:00 p.m., March 1 at 3:00pm, and March 5, 6, & 7 at 8:00 p.m. Become entranced in a collection of short works from the …
On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 6pm, Rothko Chapel and the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs will celebrate the influence of Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement on environmental justice with a program, “Actions of Change: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Struggle for Environmental Justice.” The free program …
The Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA) at Rice is pleased to announce the upcoming spring exhibition ‘Works on Paper 2009 - 2019’ by Randall McCabe, artist and long-time shop supervisor for the department who retired in May 2019. ‘Works on Paper 2009 - 2019' will have an opening reception at the Rice Media Center Gallery on Thursday, January 16 from 6:00 – …
Beloved humorist and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca delivers Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Retelling, an entertaining and rigorously researched celebration of the dead people (and things) of the past who have long fascinated him. Inspired by his #1 hit podcast of the same name, the book includes all new essays on artists, entertainers, sports …
Superica is celebrating Houstonians love of bbq with a Texas Ta”que”ro takeover with local BBQ hotspots. Chef Bobby Matos is hosting local pit master's from Roegels BBQ, Truth BBQ and Blood Bros BBQ who will create a specialty taco that will be added to Superica’s menu for one night only. 150 tacos will be prepared …
Superica is celebrating Houstonians love of bbq with a Texas Ta”que”ro takeover with local BBQ hotspots. Chef Bobby Matos is hosting local pit master's from Roegels BBQ, Truth BBQ and Blood Bros BBQ who will create a specialty taco that will be added to Superica’s menu for one night only. 150 tacos will be prepared …
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Sung in the original Italian with projected translation over the stage Figaro is getting married today, but it’s becoming very complicated. First, his new bride is being chased by his boss, the Count, who makes Harvey Weinstein look like a choirboy. Then, there seems to …
We’re kicking things off with our annual cabaret. Hosting at our beloved Rudyard’s British Pub, we’re stirring up La Boheme, Shakespeare, and Dance of the Seven Veils. Yep! All of it. We’ll wait a sec while you grab your jaw off the ground… Ready now? Cool, let us explain. We are honored to have Houston …
Join the Moody for the opening of Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, an exhibition that addresses the violent erasure of marginalized histories and the ways in which artists reinterpret familiar themes through contemporary, Afrocentric lenses. Featured artists include Sammy Baloji, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Omar Victor Diop, Adama Delphine …
The Old Maid and the Thief Amelia Goes to the Ball January 24, 26 at 7:30 p.m. Two performances only! Music and librettos by Gian Carlo Menotti Sung in the original English and Italian with projected translation over the stage Two delightful, high-spirited one-act comedies! In Amelia, a woman prepares to go out on the …
Join Le Colonial and Soaring Phoenix Dragon & Lion Dance Association in a Lunar New Year Celebration! The holidays are still going strong at River Oaks District, so make your reservation at Le Colonial on January 25 for a full dining experience complete with a dragon dancing performance and special menu featuring an assortment of …
Stephen Long, a public health physician, will discuss the EAT Lancet Commission on Food, Planet & Health: Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems report at Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 9:45 a.m. This study, compiled by 37 scientists and other experts from 16 countries, aims to establish …
Camerata at Paulie's is collaborating with acclaimed New Orleans wine bar, Bacchanal Fine Wine & Spirits, to conduct a "Basque takeover" from 2 pm to 8pm this Sunday! Guests can expect a beautiful Basque-inspired menu and curated wine selections by the team at Bacchanal.
Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston invites you to a monthly environmental education web meeting series. In January, Jaime Gonzalez, Houston Urban Conservation Programs Manager for The Nature Conservancy, will highlight a variety of local environmental issues, and how local people/organizations are coming together to address them. He will explain tools used for …
Margaret Wertheim is an internationally noted writer, artist and curator whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. Her work is animated by a two-fold proposition: that science is both a field of conceptual enchantment, and a socially embedded activity with political and communal consequences. The author of six books, including …
DACAMERA’s 2019–20 season of chamber music continues with a performance by pianist Richard Goode. World-renowned for his performances and recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven’s works, Goode will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the classical giant’s birth with a selection of Beethoven’s sonatas and bagatelles.
DACAMERA continues its 2019–20 jazz series with a performance by Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto. Throughout each of his projects, the MacArthur “Genius” Fellow infuses Latin jazz with a bold new energy and sound. Prieto returns to the DACAMERA stage with his latest project, the 17-piece, Grammy Award-winning Dafnis Prieto Big Band.
The Piano + series fills the stage with a variety of instruments, playing Houston premieres of septets by Spohr and Janacek, and the fun septet by Saint-Saens. Performers are UH faculty members Wayne Brooks, Aralee Dorough, Andrzej Grabiec, Timothy Hester, Mark Hughes, Robert Johnson, Anthony Kitai, Suzanne LeFevre, Richie Hawley (guest), Brian Suits, Todd Van …
The University of Houston’s Moores School of Music presents the 37th International Piano Festival, a thrilling series of recitals and master classes featuring some of the greatest performers in the world. Thursday, February 6 7:30 PM – IPF Discovery Artist Recital: Mackenzie Melemed, Moores Opera House Friday, February 7 3:00 PM – Vadym Kholodenko Master …
We know one night of classic fun is just. Not. Enough. But how does a two night event sound? Over the course of two nights, we’ll be performing ALL 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets the only way Boiling Point knows how – with female performers!
On Saturday, February 8, 2020 from 10am to 2pm, Rothko Chapel and Texas Environmental Justice Services will host a bus tour of toxic sites in Houston’s East End. The tour will be led by Juan Parras and Yvette Arellano of t.e.j.a.s. Tickets are $20 per person; registration is required at www.rothkochapel.org.
On Saturday, February 8, 2020 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., philanthropic animal lovers will gather at the Hotel Zaza in Houston’s Museum District for the 7th annual Wags and Whiskers, formerly the Best Friends Brunch, benefiting Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston’s Animeals program. The “On Broadway” themed event will feature a pet fashion show, silent auction, …