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  Best Virtual Bets: Shakespeare, Black Art in Houston, and a Murder Mystery

  August 6 at 4 a.m.

  If you're in the market for some ideas to keep you socially distant and socially responsible, we've got some suggestions for you.

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  Announcing the 2020 Houston Theater Awards

  August 4 at 4 a.m.

  When Hurricane Harvey smashed into Houston in August 2017, its destruction to our theater community was horribly awesome. The devastation was mighty and biblical. Theaters were wrecked, props lost, costumes stank from mildew, schedules hastily shuffled or postponed, jobs lost, budgets thrown out of whack. The world had turned, and...

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  The Hobby Center Gets Top Marks From Cleaning Council

  August 3 at 11:44 a.m.

  Good news for all the people who would really like to get back to live theater but who in equal measure don't want to leave a performance with a healthy dose of COVID-19. The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts announced today it has received top marks for the protocols...

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  SPA Launches Commissioning Project for Houston Artists

  July 30 at 4 a.m.

  SPA recently announced the launch of its SPA Houston Artist Commissioning Project. By supporting local artists directly by awarding financial resources for newly created works, the project will give the city's performing artists an opportunity, and funding, to move their creativity forward.

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  Catching Up With the Arts in Houston: A Lost Masterwork, the Irrepressible Tamarie Cooper & More

  July 23 at 4 a.m.

  A forgotten film of note being aired by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Catastrophic Theatre's Tamarie Cooper's Quarantine Edition. A new participatory public arts project through the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.  While visual and performing arts venues are dealing carefully with the coronavirus, there is still plenty to see and do right now.

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  Catching Up With the Arts in Houston: Front Porch Poetry & More

  July 17 at 4 a.m.

  Sitting on a front porch in Houston, Dabrina Sandifer reads out the poem "Great Grandmother's Pearls," running through the words about the woman who "gave me pearls. She gave me pistols." It's an affecting delivery captured by photographer/videographer Pin Lim. Jennifer Decker, artistic director of Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company, clued...