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Calendar of Events in Houston
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In Close Up Space, father Paul Barrow is a book editor consumed by a need to set things straight grammatically, to eliminate all unnecessary words. That he does this to the expulsion notice sent to him by his daughter's school points to the enormous chasm there is between the two main characters — which only becomes wider when daughter Harper shows up speaking nothing but Russian to... Read more about this event >>
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Dance Source Houston's taking over Barnevelder Theatre as its new base of operations. To break in the new digs, DSH's presenting Dance Source Houston's Barn Raising, a program featuring several local performers, choreographers and dance companies. ''It just seems like an obvious choice to have Dance Source Houston at Barnevelder,'' says Andy Noble, founder of NobleMotion Dance. According to... Read more about this event >>
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Scoremore Shows, the social-media-savvy promoter that is increasingly calling the shots in the Texas rap game, gets a jump on your Memorial Day weekend festivities with its first-ever Jambalaya Festival. Headlining is Earl Wolf, the offshoot duo of Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator of indie-rap provocateurs Odd Future – so if you're looking for trouble, you came to the right place.... Read more about this event >>
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With four freakin' decades of mid-tempo Australian rock music to their name, Little River Band may be one of the most significant Aussie bands to cross over to the US charts. Led by vocal mastermind Glenn Shorrock, they've been dubbed the first real breakthrough act in the American market, and by hocking their bi-coastal brand of adult-contemporary music, with its catchy hooks, velvety... Read more about this event >>
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If one looks with an appropriately observant and objective eye, he will discover streets filled with art, or at least, artistic assemblages, that somebody ''made'' in the discarding. Mesquite-born artist Andy Coolquitt transforms these cast-off eye-catchers for ''Andy Coolquitt: Attainable Excellence'' at Blaffer Art Gallery. ''Andy Coolquitt scavenges the streets for remnants of human... Read more about this event >>
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Artist Forrest Bess was as troubled as he was talented. The Bay City native battled both alcoholism and schizophrenia. He lived in isolation for much of his adult life and famously mutilated his own genitals in an attempt to become a hermaphrodite. At the same time, he received considerable recognition during and after his life for his rich, symbolic paintings, showing in New York's Betty... Read more about this event >>
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Burlesque clown princess and producer KiKi Maroon describes the KiKi Maroon's BurlyQ Lounge show as ''classy and sexy, dirty and funny.'' Okay, we're in. Maroon found burlesque shows a rarity when she started performing here two years ago. ''At the time there was no burlesque scene or regular shows in Houston. I was turned down by pretty much every local venue, saying there was no draw.... Read more about this event >>
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Station Theater, Houston's home for improvisational arts, plays host to an ambitiously tight three-day schedule (which on the surface seems to go against the very nature of improv itself) with The TRILL Comedy Festival, a collection of sketches, structures and riffs. ''The TRILL Comedy Festival will have every kind of bizarre and avant-garde comedy,'' promises producer Shyla Ray, who teaches... Read more about this event >>
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Like most people, Psophonia Dance Company co-founder and choreographer Sophia Torres sometimes dreams of flying through the air (à la Superman). Unlike most people, Torres used those dreams as inspiration for a set of new works. ''love that dream,'' she tells us. ''I feel empowered when I'm soaring. Anything is possible in that moment if I just trust myself, if I just take that step.''... Read more about this event >>
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Austin's Black Angels, with their band name pulled straight from the Velvet Underground's catalog, and a high-contrast image of Velvet's frontman Nico splayed across their logo, are unapologetic in their admiration of the prophetic rock band. Despite the obvious Velvet nod, the Black Angels have carved out a sound that's quite their own, which they've dubbed as "Native American... Read more about this event >>
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Soundgarden has aged remarkably well. For a band that took a long nap between 1996's Down On the Upside and last year's King Animal, the reunited Seattle crew has bridged those 15-plus years with remarkable continuity. King Animal is very much the same Soundgarden of grunge touchstones Louder Than Love and Badmotorfinger, with guitarist Thayil's psych-dusted leads welded to a Sabbath-esque... Read more about this event >>
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With four freakin' decades of mid-tempo Australian rock music to their name, Little River Band may be one of the most significant Aussie bands to cross over to the US charts. Led by vocal mastermind Glenn Shorrock, they've been dubbed the first real breakthrough act in the American market, and by hocking their bi-coastal brand of adult-contemporary music, with its catchy hooks, velvety... Read more about this event >>
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Multidisciplinary art, including performance art, is the focus of ''Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane.'' Both proto-feminist artists, Jonas and Pane worked on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with Jonas based in New York and Pane in Paris. The exhibit explores the characteristics their art shares and highlights the differences. Sculpture, video, photography, drawing, live arts and... Read more about this event >>
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Race and rape. Individually, they're each highly charged topics. Playwright David Mamet puts them together in the explosive play Race, being mounted here by Ensemble Theatre. A white man is accused of raping a black woman, leaving it to lawyers of both racial backgrounds to argue his fate. Mamet leaves the audience members considerable wiggle room to come to their own conclusions. ''I like... Read more about this event >>
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Actor Tom Hewitt (Billy Flynn in Chicago on Broadway) has been a Monty Python fan since his youth, which is standing him in good stead now that he's signed on to play King Arthur in Theatre Under the Stars' upcoming production of Spamalot, a musical that evolved from the movie classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. ''There are so many people who are Monty Python fans, basically all you have... Read more about this event >>
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Houston's quickly becoming a capital of geek culture in America, as evidenced by Comicpalooza 2013, the ever-growing convention. The show attracts vendors and stars from around the globe to H-Town for a feast of cutting-edge geekdom. Star Trek/X-Men star Patrick Stewart is in town, as are bad girl Michelle Rodriguez, wrestler Scott Steiner, Cary Elwes, and one of the largest collections of... Read more about this event >>
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The musical Road Show tells the story of two brothers, Wilson (Tom Frey) and Addison (L. Jay Myer). Sons of a critical father, they're both caught up in what seems to be a perpetual chase for success in its every guise, whether that's the Alaska Gold Rush or bogus Florida land deals. The show (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman) makes its regional premiere at Stages Repertory... Read more about this event >>
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Besides making a perfect punchline to the joke "Why did the farmer start a punk-rock band?" (he was tired of haulin' oats, y'see), Darryl Hall and John Oates stand as one of the most successful and influential pop/R&B duos of the past 40 years. Combining a lot of their native Philly soul – Hall did a crucial apprenticeship at Gamble & Huff's famous Philadelphia International Records... Read more about this event >>
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Hands, the upbeat indie-pop band from Los Angeles, has had quite a year. Since their birth as a band in 2012, they've made an appearance on Time Magazine's list, "11 Bands You Don't Know (But Should)," and they were hailed as "Best New Band of the Day" by Guardian this past March, despite only having an EP under their belt at the time. They didn't need much more than a track or two to push... Read more about this event >>
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Multidisciplinary art, including performance art, is the focus of ''Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane.'' Both proto-feminist artists, Jonas and Pane worked on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with Jonas based in New York and Pane in Paris. The exhibit explores the characteristics their art shares and highlights the differences. Sculpture, video, photography, drawing, live arts and... Read more about this event >>
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Throughout his career, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso experimented with wildly divergent styles, techniques, subject matter, and mediums. But over the decades, he would continually return to creating works in the most simple - and often striking - hues of black and white. ''Picasso in Black and White,'' currently on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, features some 100 of his... Read more about this event >>
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Catastrophic Theatre is staging a production of There is A Happiness That Morning Is, Mickie Maher's comedic, rhyming ode to poet William Blake. Sound familiar? That may be because Catastrophic performed the devastatingly appealing show to sold-out houses just two years ago. Recommending the show to ''anyone that has ever been in love,'' Catastrophic Theatre helmsman Jason Nodler says the... Read more about this event >>
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The band Pink Martini has a reputation for being wild, jazzy and hip. When it takes the stage with the Houston Symphony, the group will be joined by The Von Trapps. It seems The Von Trapps, made up of the great-grandchildren of Captain and Maria von Trapp (yes, from The Sound of Music), would have a decidedly different reputation. Pink Martini founder Thomas Lauderdale says the two groups... Read more about this event >>
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Lots of folks in Houston don't find anything funny about the Enron scandal; Tony Award® winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang, however, found a way to weave it into his comedy Chinglish. The Broadway hit follows Daniel Cavanaugh, an American businessman to China where he hopes to snag some big sign-making contracts. (The country is reportedly rife with poorly translated... Read more about this event >>
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Despite being best known for his solo R&B career, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds has actually been a big player on the music scene since the late '70's and early '80's, contributing to the creation of new jack swing by writing and producing for big names like Bobby Brown, Paula Abdul, and Sheena Easton. Named by funk legend Bootsy Collins because of his "cute" face as a teen, Babyface has also... Read more about this event >>
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A page from a manuscript written in gold, an 85-plus-carat emerald and a jeweled jade court dagger. See these and other rare treasures in the new Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibit ''Art of Islamic Lands: Selections from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait.'' One of the best collections of Islamic art in the world, the al-Sabah Collection includes some 30,000 pieces. More than 60 works from the... Read more about this event >>
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Glenn Peters, professor of early medieval and Byzantine art at the University of Texas at Austin, got to dig through The Menil Collection's storage vaults as he put together ''Byzantine Things in the World.'' The exhibition explores the relationship between ancient and contemporary art through iconography. Some 70 works spanning from 9,000 BC to the present are on display, including ancient... Read more about this event >>
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Actor Tom Hewitt (Billy Flynn in Chicago on Broadway) has been a Monty Python fan since his youth, which is standing him in good stead now that he's signed on to play King Arthur in Theatre Under the Stars' upcoming production of Spamalot, a musical that evolved from the movie classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. ''There are so many people who are Monty Python fans, basically all you have... Read more about this event >>
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There are two things you can do when you realize that if you don't get away from your family, you will lose your mind: A) Leave. B) Buy some ''this is what I'm wearing to the insane asylum'' shoes. (We have several pairs, in a variety of pastel colors.) Jordan Vogt-Roberts's debut comedy film, The Kings of Summer, deals with option A as three adolescent boys flee their aggravating home lives... Read more about this event >>
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How big is Angry Birds, the addictive catapulting video game? Almost 2 billion copies have been downloaded and countless T-shirts, books and assorted paraphernalia sold. A feature film is set to join the recently launched video channel. And now the Finland-based company is moving into the interactive-experience business, stepping up to educate people about microgravity and orbits with the... Read more about this event >>
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See the movie that François Truffaut claims paved the path for the French New Wave movement when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston screens Little Fugitive (1953). Filmmakers used a concealed, custom-made 35mm camera to capture New York's Coney Island, the setting for the poetic story of a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) who, mistakenly believing he killed his brother, runs away... Read more about this event >>
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Naturalist and photographer J. J. L'Heureux turned her lens on the ice and animals who call it home for her exhibit ''Penguins of the Antarctic: A Photographic Expedition.'' During multiple trips to the region, L'Heureux traveled aboard a Russian icebreaker. The route was thought to be risky, but instead of problems the expedition enjoyed perfect conditions allowing the icebreaker's captain... Read more about this event >>
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The Russian Cultural Center Our Texas presents a different sort of art exhibit with ''Book Illustration Exhibition by Igor Karash and Vladimir Zimakov.'' Originally from Azerbaijan, Karash is an illustrator and designer. He recently won the 2012 Book Illustration Competition at The House of Illustration and Folio Society in London. Among the work he'll have on display are seven illustrations... Read more about this event >>
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Every Glover Gill song tells a story. Like a good book or movie, it grabs you at the beginning, sinks its hooks into you near the middle and gives you at least one good surprise before coming to an end. And without the vocals or lyrics, either. Quite the scholarly musician, Glover Gill studied applied piano at the University of St. Thomas and UT-Austin, but he didn’t learn everything in... Read more about this event >>
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Ta'Rea Campbell, appearing as Deloris in the musical Sister Act, says she and Deloris are both a little ''sassy,'' but while Deloris still pretty much says anything that's on her mind, Campbell says she learned awhile back that isn't always the best strategy. Sister Act, running for a week at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts courtesy of Gexa Energy Broadway, is set in Philadelphia... Read more about this event >>
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Whether Guns N' Roses' current tour across the nation's House of Blues venues is simply a naked cash grab – general-admission tickets start at $135 – or an up-close way for Axl Rose to connect with his more affluent fans, the fact remains plenty of GN'R lovers will pay that much (and probably a lot more) to see "Paradise City," "Sweet Child o' Mine" and the other hits in such an... Read more about this event >>
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The fact that film director Guillermo del Toro, master of the horror genre, is a fan of Steve Burdniak's work tells you a lot about the Austin artist's work. Burdniak's assemblages use real human blood, mummified squirrels, octopus tentacles, centipedes and gyrating Mercedes hubcaps to create a mad scientist's lair befitting one of del Toro's films in ''The Science of Surrealism.'' The show... Read more about this event >>
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Soo Sunny Park's Unwoven Light installation at Rice Gallery is unapologetically pretty. It's a glistening, iridescent canopy of shimmering pinks, purples, blues, greens and yellows that resembles anything from a fish's scales to a spider's web wet with raindrops. Despite the apt comparisons, this creation is anything but organic. Unwoven Light is composed entirely of chain-link fence and... Read more about this event >>
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More than 100 exhibitions are being held around town as part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts’ annual conference. Most are at places you’d expect, like the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Some are on view in nontraditional spaces; ''Jessica Dupuis: Miniature'' is on display inside The Kenmore, a mobile refrigerator. Dupuis, a past resident artist at... Read more about this event >>
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Life isn't so easy for Easy Rawlins. The private investigator was almost killed in his last outing (Blonde Faith), and now he's tasked with finding a missing man in the Sunset Strip. All he has to do is sort through the various hippies, shady characters and beautiful women who cruise the area. Oh, and there's the small matter of his own confused soul. Set in 1967, Little Green is author... Read more about this event >>
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With an upcoming album, Stampede, and a new single that just dropped featuring none other than Lil Wayne, Fred Durst and company are pulling out all the stops for their aim at resurgence. Seems that they might be defying the odds and pulling it off, too. Their Houston tour date at the House of Blues sold out with lightning speed, so they've obviously still got a fan base that's pulling for... Read more about this event >>
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Pat Jasper, a member of the Houston Arts Alliance's Folklife + Traditional Arts Program, plays down her role in putting together ''Anointed and Adorned: Indian Weddings in Houston.'' It wasn't rocket science to figure out that we could do a pretty spectacular exhibition once we got a good look at [photographer] Sohil Maknojia's material.'' According to Jasper, the show examines the issues of... Read more about this event >>
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The latest offering from the Alley Theatre's New Play Initiative, Warrior Class by Kenneth Lin, makes its way to the stage. Alley audiences saw the world premiere of Lin's Intelligence-Slave in 2010 and are anxious to see his new effort. Warrior Class is a political thriller. In it Julius Weishan Lee is the son of Chinese immigrants and a rising star in the Republican Party. Put forward as a... Read more about this event >>
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A tragic plane crash cut short country singer Patsy Cline's brilliant career in 1963. She was just 30 years old. Cline went on to become a legend and was the first female solo artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. The musical Always…Patsy Cline, now making its 25th anniversary, by Ted Swindley, is based on actual events. The show charts the songs and life of the famed... Read more about this event >>
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