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Tonight, Houston will host the U.S. debut of the first Western-style interpretation of the classic Chinese opera, Farewell My Concubine. With performances only today and tomorrow at the Wortham, this is a rare opportunity. The original Chinese opera will be performed by a Chinese cast and sung in Mandarin. Chinese opera has come to the United States so very infrequently that if you have any interest in Chinese music, art, opera or culture, you should get over to the Wortham.
Remember when you were a little bitty Houstonist and someone would read to you at night and you could just lose yourself in the story, abandoning all other thoughts of the day? Well you can still do it now, you know. In fact, you might be all the more eager to shed your quotidian annoyances now that you're grown. Here are a few places to hear some stellar writers read from their work: Friday...
Did you notice our lazy capitalization in the title? Well, that's exaclty how we're feeling today. A lazy weekend in the blazing sun out by the pool is just what we've been waiting for all summer. So here it is, make the most of it! For the record, FOX, yes we do think we can dance. And very well, might we add. With the recent success of the reality contest show, So You Think...
Senior Time magazine columnist Joe Klein will speak tonight at the Wortham Center on Islam, Iraq, and the War on Terror. Klein is "one of America’s most astute observers of politics and international affairs" and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of a number of books, including his most recent Politics Lost: How American Politics Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid, a tirade against political consultants in...
Choreographer Donald Byrd, who was nominated for a Tony for his work in the 2006 Broadway production of The Color Purple, is bringing Indian industrial/club dance music to Houston this weekend. Seattle-based Spectrum Dance Theater, for whom Donald Byrd is the artistic director, will perform at the Wortham Center's Cullen Theater - part of the IW Marks Dance Series tonight and tomorrow night. A pre-performance lecture by Donald Byrd begins each evening at 7:10 in...
When her debut, White Teeth, was published in 2000, Zadie Smith was hailed as a wunderkind of literature: her characterizations drew comparisons to Dickens and her unique voice was celebrated right and left. This weekend, Smith read from her newest novel, On Beauty, as [part of the 2006-2007 Imprint Brown Reading Series, sponsored by Imprint Houston, a nationally-heralded creative writing organization with roots at U of H. Imprint's reading series, which this year includes writers...