The Houston Symphony will perform The Best of Broadway, a collection of the most popular hits from musical theatre, this weekend at Jones Hall.

Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra will play Classical Masterworks, featuring guest performers at a new venue this Friday.

Society for the Performing Arts will present Kobie Boykins, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mechanical engineer, for Exploring Mars as part of its National Geographic Live partnership at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Wortham Center's Cullen Theater.

Put the kitchen stove on pause and, instead, take up the cause for Thursday's Dining Out For Life, a culinary fundraiser for AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc.

Bright Bottles, an opera told in three tableaux, will premiere its first act this weekend where composer and director Rashaan Allwood addresses the topics of vulnerability and materialism. The show starts 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Rice University...

The 32nd annual Houston Art Car Parade, powered by The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, will put wheels into motion with pre-parade activities starting at 11 a.m. and the main event starting at 2 p.m. Saturday in downtown.