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  The Life-Changing Properties of Amahl and the Night Visitors

  December 9 at 5 a.m.

  A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, opera was produced on television. Not the old and musty, but avant-garde and contemporary. Impossible to believe, but in the pioneering '50s, NBC actually had a director of “new opera programming.” Famed conductor Peter Herman Adler, born in what is...

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  All Through The House Offers An Alternate Holiday Theater Experience

  December 8 at 4 a.m.

  What’s a Houstonian to do if he or she develops a yen for theater around the holidays but would rather poke their eyes out with candy canes and drown a slow death in eggnog than sit through one of those treacly feel-good seasonal productions? Historically there’s always been the intentionally...

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  HGO's El Milagro del Recuerdo: A Mariachi Opera Christmas Offering

  December 6 at 6:53 a.m.

  The show curtain for Houston Grand Opera's world premiere of Javier Martinez (music) and Leonard Foglia's (libretto) El Milagro del Recuerdo (“The Miracle of Remembering”) is everything you'd want for a prelude. Depicting a Mexican folk pastorela (the Nativity pageant), it's painted in vivid, vibrant colors like a Mayan temple...

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  10 Best Bets This Weekend: Dickens on The Strand, y El Milagro del Recuerdo

  December 5 at 4 a.m.

  Funny and festive, blissful and sweet, this weekend offers more than a few of our favorite things. There's a mariachi opera, comedy on stage, Latin-inspired music, a marathon monologue from Jay Leno, a gingerbread build-off (in space!), a homecoming of sorts over at the Houston Ballet, and a return to...

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  Dylan Godwin is Fully Committed in Alley Theatre's New Production

  December 2 at 7:58 a.m.

  In Becky Mode's Fully Committed, a little alternative holiday programming offer now playing at the Alley Theatre, one actor plays more than 40 characters in a non-stop one-act ride.

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  Miracle on 34th Street Tells Its Story of Kindness and Belief at A.D. Players

  November 30 at 7:26 a.m.

  The Gospel story has never been a popular attraction on the stage, except for the medieval pageant The Massacre of the Innocents, a huge hit for its time with its dark theme of infanticide. But this antique doesn't exactly suit our modern holiday celebration. Thus, there are only two secular...