Results tagged “performance”

Cactus Music brings us another in-store performance, this time from Austinites Wooden Birds.

"Wolff’s essays and performances explore autobiographical narratives as daydreams and fantasy through a filter of the American pop culture idiom. "Dead Dogs" and "Why I Hate Debra Winger" are two works in progress about change, loss and personal evolution.

Grab your blankets and head to the hill at Discovery Green Friday evening for Fresh Fridays, hosted tonight by Dance Houston. Home Grown Motion: A Gathering of Local Dancers will be tonight's performance and dancers and dance groups will perform in an impromptu festival on the Anheuser-Busch Stage.

Bayou City Arts Festival - Downtown Need tickets to this weekend's Bayou City Arts Festival? We gotcha covered. We scored a few pairs, so drop us an email at monica (@) houstonist dot com and we'll hook you up. (And not like the time we tried to hook you up with our boyfriend's 3rd cousin. Sorry about that.) This all can be yours, for the low, low price of free (aka send an email to...

Unless you've been hiding under a rock out in the suburbs (no judgment!) you probably have already heard about this Saturday's 11th Annual Museum District Day. If you haven't, well look at us telling you something you don't know about! Yep, folks, that's what we're here for. Here's your chance to view gallery upon gallery of Houston's finest art, all for the low, low price of FREE. Saturday, August 18th, from 10am-5pm, 14 Houston museums...

Preview Performance & Reception: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Happy Hump Day, Houston. Need something to get you through to the weekend? How about a little wine, a little cheese, and a lotta Roman farce? "Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight!" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum takes comedy back to it's roots, combining situation from the time-tested 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy...

Houston Metropolitan Dance presents Performance at Hermann Park

It’s time to whip out your blackest black eyeliner and dust off your old poetry journal as Infernal Bridegroom Productions holds its "Tortured Artists Gala" this Saturday at the Axiom (2524 McKinney). Scheduled activities include buffet dinner and silent auction, dancing to the IBP Band, taking in some Seriously Silly Performance Art, and, if you’re lucky, getting crowned Miss Understood. While the IBP Tortured Artist Gala is sure be be a great time, it’s also...

Chinese New Year Spectacular

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...

Ready for a triple play of art to kick off the weekend? Check out the final shows of the spring season at Commerce Street Artists Warehouse tomorrow, where you can meet D.C.'s David Waddell, curator of CSAW's exhibition. According to CSAW: "Play! exhibits the serious side of exploration, play and obsession through transforming everyday materials, personifying household objects and redefining space formally and psychologically." Nine artists are participating, including Meredith Cunningham and Katherine Veneman of Houston.