MATCH – Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
Houston Pride Band Presents: Ignite!
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesExperience the heat of an unforgettable night as we kick off our 2023-2024 season, "An Elemental Journey," at the MATCH! Join us on September 30th for Ignite - an illuminating concert fueled by the energy and passion of fire and light. Let the Houston Pride Band take you on an electrifying musical journey that will …
The House of Patrick/Stage Play
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesAward winning playwright Vincent Victoria stages his new World Premiere play "The House of Patrick" about gay fashion designer Patrick Kelly and his friendship with legendary gay Icon, actress Bette Davis. Set in Paris in 1983 the play gives a fictional account based on true events about the collaboration between these two larger than life …
Houston Pride Band Presents: Summer Love
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Houston Pride Band invites you to Summer Love, a concert of music inspired by the greatest muse of all. Enjoy chart topping favorites, Broadway hits, and two world premiers, all showcasing summer, love stories, and famous relationships. With so much to love, we'll get your summer started off right!
CLEANSED by Sarah Kane (Regional Premiere) at The Catastrophic Theatre
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Catastrophic Theatre presents CLEANSED by Sarah Kane. In a former university, society’s “undesirables” are subjected to a series of tortures designed to test the limits of human love on the battlefield of the human body. Explosively aching, hauntingly poetic, and disarmingly tender, CLEANSED is a fever-dream fable of unimaginable brutality and miraculous beauty. CLEANSED …
Divas! Music by, for , and about women!
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesIt’s a woman’s world, and the Houston Pride Band is excited to present a night of music by, for, and about women! Come celebrate the influence and impact of women on music as we feature female guest conductors, pieces composed by women, and selections inspired by the power and grace of the female spirit. Featuring …
THEY DO NOT MOVE by Brian Jucha with the Catastrophic ensemble
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesUsing found text, music, stylized physicality, and an abundance of pop culture references, THEY DO NOT MOVE winds its way through an imagined American future in which democracy has been defeated and a disorganized band of vagrants, waifs, and strays are hunted by monarchist forces. Their only defense? An expressionist cavalcade of song and dance. …
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesCruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical is based on the iconic 1999 film starring Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Geller. The musical pulls you into the manipulative world of Manhattan’s most dangerous liaisons: Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil. Fueled by revenge and passion, the diabolically charming step-siblings place a bet on whether or not …
Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.: Coyote on a Fence
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesDirt Dogs Theatre Company presents the challenging, explosive Coyote on a Fence. Illiterate yet affable, Bobby Reyburn loves to do impressions and watch soap operas. He’s also a member of the Aryan nation sitting on death row, convicted of an unimaginable hate crime. John Brennan is an articulate, well-educated convict and editor of the prison newspaper, The Death Row …
Houston Fringe Festival: Decision Trees
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesDecision Trees is an evening-length work arranged by Paul Kasperitis for Houston Fringe Festival 2022, centering around his compositions by the same name.
Simprov
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThunderclap Productions presents SIMPROV, a world premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Laurence Klavan. "SIMPROV is a serious and surreal comedy about technology, entertainment, and identity. Two couples are on contrasting journeys: Barbara and Alan, in middle age, are being pulled apart by her ever-increasing involvement in video and internet experiences; Actor …
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesWhen 12-year-old Edith makes an unfortunate spur-of-the-moment decision with her air rifle, she, her older brother Kenny, and his boyfriend Benji find themselves suddenly at odds with the adult world around them. A. Rey Pamatmat’s achingly beautiful play explores first love, the pangs of youth, and the universal search to find your family of choice. …
Houston Pride Band Presents: Starry Night
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThere is no greater place than Houston to celebrate our love of outer space and dreaming of the stars. Join the Houston Pride Band for a night of music inspired by the cosmos, including selections from Star Wars, The Planets, Star Trek, and other popular favorites. Special guest performance by the Bering UCC Handbell Ensemble.
A Steady Rain
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesA Steady Rain explores the complexities of a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago. Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten and, after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny's wife and kids; Denny keeps …
Not A Day Goes By: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesNot a Day Goes By reunites the Into The Woods cast (the last Houston cast of a Sondheim piece while he was living) along with select Houston vocalists for a one-night only engagement highlighting his work. The concert will span from Sondheim's most popular shows to some of his less performed works including Passion, Merrily …
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesWhite Rabbit Red Rabbit is a worldwide phenomenon that was first produced in 2011. Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is forbidden from leaving his native Iran after refusing to participate in military service, which is required of all men in the country. Soleimanpour wrote the piece hoping that it would be produced worldwide. If he could not …
Into the Woods
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesInto the Woods tells the story of The Baker and his Wife who long to have a child of their own. The neighborhood Witch throws a wrench in their plan when she reveals that she has placed a curse on their family, forbidding them to ever have children. There is a way to reverse the …
Starry Night Concert
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThere is no greater place than Houston to celebrate our love of outer space and dreaming of the stars. Join the Houston Pride Band for a night of music inspired by the cosmos, including sections from Star Wars, Holst’s ‘The Planets’, Star Trek, and other popular contemporary favorites!
From White Plains
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this New York Times Critic pick, when Dennis Sullivan wins an Academy Award for his screenplay based on the true story of his friend who was driven to suicide after being bullied for being gay, he names the real-life bully on national television in his acceptance speech: Ethan Rice. Dennis’ accusation and the viral …
Sugar Plum Fantasy Concert
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesKick off your holiday season with the Houston Pride Band at our annual holiday extravaganza, which promises to make your holiday magical and sweet! The program features holiday music, both traditional and contemporary, and a special nod to Tchaikovsky's timeless "The Nutcracker". It is sure to have you dancing and singing along in your seat.
Call Me Ann: A Rock Opera
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesCall Me Ann is a rock opera biography of Ann Richards, and examines her life, her times, and what her election and subsequent re-election loss meant as her political career ended and George W. Bush's began. Texas and Houston characters and situations feature prominently, as her history intersects with Governor Mark White, President George W. …
Speeding Motorcycle
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesAn all-time Catastrophic favorite returns! The original rock opera, based entirely on the songs of legendary outsider musician and artist Daniel Johnston, was originally performed to rave reviews in 2006 and received glowing coverage in the New York Times. SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE takes audiences deep into the astounding, hilarious, and heartbreaking world of one of America’s …
Pop Up Kino: Coming Out
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesPop Up Kino, a monthly film series celebrating German cinema, presents Heiner Carow's "Coming Out." As a boy, Philipp was strongly attracted to his best friend, but he put that behind him in order to live within the “norm”. He meets a shy girl who falls for him, and soon the couple is sharing an …
CounterCurrent19 – Stacy Garrop: How Does a Composer Compose?
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this lecture-demonstration, Garrop takes the audience through a step-by-step process of how she composes instrumental music, demystifying a process that for many remains challenging to understand. For CounterCurrent19, Garrop will focus on the compositional process she utilized for her woodwind arrangement, Bohemian Café. The presentation features videos of Prague street performers from whom she …
CounterCurrent19 – Awilda Rodríguez Lora: SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesSUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla is a lecture-performance by the transdisciplinary artist, Awilda Rodríguez Lora also known as La Performera. Stories, movements, and songs are strategies used by La Performera to invite the audience to reflect on the concept of sustento (sustenance) as a complex and vital idea for survival in creative …
Toast
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesTOAST takes audiences on a raucous and mind-bending journey through Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell! This original, collectively-realized work brings together eight members of Catastrophic’s acting company with groundbreaking director Brian Jucha, a key collaborator of Catastrophic’s predecessor company, Infernal Bridegroom Productions. TOAST completes a trilogy that started with 1997’s LAST RITES and 2002’s WE …