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6 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: '80s Hits, Belly Dance and a Dark Opera
Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 5:30 a.m. by Susie Tommaney

It's all about the new this weekend in Houston. Group Acorde has found a novel way to blend jazz, choreography and visual art; Mercury's Antoine Plante is out with a new dark opera; a belly dancing class at the "J" is helping us ful...
12 Days of Classical Music Makes Houston's Holiday Season Very Merry
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 4 a.m. by Susie Tommaney

The weather outside is frightful, but inside Houston's concert halls it's quite delightful. 'Tis the season for holiday music and our classical line-up caters to every taste. We've got an Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble, whale sounds, an&n...
Go Back to the '90s with Catastrophic Theatre's First Suburb
Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 9:35 a.m. by Natalie de la Garza

The Catastrophic Theatre's resident playwright Chana Porter returns with a '90s-centric play, First Suburb.
Curse of the Starving Class Showcases Sam Shepard's First Major Off-Broadway Hit
Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 2:19 p.m. by D. L. Groover

Today's theater world is a fallow place. There are no recent playwrights whose work commands respect and opening-night buzz like those of theatrical Rushmore icons Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Christopher Durang. Augus...