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Corella Ballet Castilla y León

Big Night

A well-timed NEA grant finally brings several local blues greats to the Jones Hall stage.

Get Lit for the Holidays at Book Signings This Week

​It's definitely too early to start putting up Christmas decorations, but it's not too early to start stocking up on presents for the holidays. And although this may just be me, a signed book is always a fantastic gift to open up on Christmas Day or after singing Ma'oz Tzur or however your fam ... More >>

Houston Symphony: Poperazzi

​It's definitely too early to start putting up Christmas decorations, but it's not too early to start stocking up on presents for the holidays. And although this may just be me, a signed book is always a fantastic gift to open up on Christmas Day or after singing Ma'oz Tzur or however your fam ... More >>

Dealing with Child Porn

Prosecutors talk about the evidence,

Guns N' Roses, Rolling Stones, Prince Coming In 2011?

Sind Axl und Slash wieder Freunde geworden?​Rocks Off is in the concert business for all intents and purposes. We scour Pollstar and other Web sites and almost hourly looking for new shows and tours to tell you about around the clock. In the span of writing this introduction we just listed Luc ... More >>

17th Annual Theater District Open House

Here comes the 2010-2011 arts season - get your sneak peek here

Last Night: The Houston Symphony Does The Music Of Queen

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​The Houston Symphony Jones Hall July 22, 2010 There is perhaps no better way to experience the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen than with a full orchestra. Nothing about the band wasn't large and grandiose in scope, making them one of the bands most ripe for the orch ... More >>

"Free Press Summerfest 2010" With The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Slim Thug, Stars, Lucero, Ra Ra Riot, Mix Master Mike, Medeski, Martin & Wood

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​The Houston Symphony Jones Hall July 22, 2010 There is perhaps no better way to experience the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen than with a full orchestra. Nothing about the band wasn't large and grandiose in scope, making them one of the bands most ripe for the orch ... More >>

Free Press Summerfest

Photos by Craig Hlavaty​The Houston Symphony Jones Hall July 22, 2010 There is perhaps no better way to experience the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen than with a full orchestra. Nothing about the band wasn't large and grandiose in scope, making them one of the bands most ripe for the orch ... More >>

Weatherford Family Concert: Carnival of the Animals

Moo, chirp, chirp, baaaaaah!

STOMP

These performers make music with oil drums and brooms, not instruments

Rhapsody in Blue

The Houston Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kirill Gerstein as it tackles an American classic

Shen Yun Performing Arts

Between the color and the spectacle is a thousand-year-old tradition of dance

Aftermath: Puscifer at Jones Hall, the First Show We've Walked Out On In Years

Photos by Groovehouse​Aftermath considers himself a reasonably tolerant sort of fellow - you pretty much have to be to do this job. And we know for a fact we have a sense of humor, and a pretty off-color sense of humor at that, because it's gotten us in hot water more than once. ​Which is why ... More >>

Wondering What Tonight's Puscifer Show Might Be Like? Check This Out...

Well, well, well. This promises to be most interesting indeed. My my, Maynard, my my. 8 p.m. at Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana, 713-227-3974 or www.livenation.com.

David Byrne Mystified by Houston's Sprawl, Loves Jones Hall

Craig HlavatyYesterday one of our readers (thanks, Mimi!) posted a comment with a link to David Byrne's blog about the white-haired world-pop eminence's thoughts and experiences while on tour. Apparently Byrne got to spend quite a bit of time in Houston, because the entry surrounding ... More >>

David Byrne Bikes Houston

Photo by Craig HlavatyFormer Talking Head David Byrne (we're nor sure, but we're guessing he hates that description) was in town recently for a show at Jones Hall.Byrne has become a biking fanatic these days; he's also an occasional diarist about his tour.His piece on Houston has him complaining abo ... More >>

Aftermath: Flight of the Conchords at Jones Hall

Photos by Craig HlavatyThe thing about musical comedians is that if the humor is there but the tuneage is not, you can pretty much cash your chips in and give up and steal some of Louis CK's jokes and start selling out basketball arenas. New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords almost has too much musi ... More >>

Batsheva Dance Company

The troupe co-founded by Martha Graham performs a variety of dance works by Choreographer/Artistic Director Ohad Naharin

Video Games Live

Maestro, meet Mario

Metamorphosis: Echoes of the Voyage

Bayou City Performing Arts has a few friends join it on stage

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

Kwame Ryan makes his Houston Symphony debut with one of Mr. B’s most famous works

Chapel/Chapter

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is set to make us uncomfortable

Brown Bags and Beethoven

The Houston Symphony offers an appetizer before the upcoming Beethoven feast

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

The Houston Symphony pairs music with poetry

Two Star Symphony Musical Retrospective

This string quartet finally finds a venue fit for their sound

Sing for the Cure, Sing for Life, Sing for Breasts

This string quartet finally finds a venue fit for their sound

Dancing Queen

The Martha Graham Dance Company defines modern movement

The Joy of Cooking

Las Nuevas Tamaleras is a corny kitchen comedy

Putting on Airs

Modern dance master Paul Taylor brings a program of classics old and new to Jones Hall

Sexual Concealing

Sam Mendes explores the collective denial of Weimar Berlin with his dark and erotically charged Cabaret

Rich Ragtime

An epic musical maps the emergence of America

Theater District Open House

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Flash and the Phantom

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Karp, the Good Crap

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