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Events on Saturday, March 4, 2023

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Saturday, March 4 at 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

CREATED BY ANDRE PITRE, WRITTEN BY CHARNELE BROWN

The Black Man, the Play dives into the minds of why black men do what they do. There is a war going on between black men and black women. In order to get to the root of the problem we must know from whence it comes.

We wrote this play to create dialogue.Read more

Saturday, March 4 at 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

CREATED BY ANDRE PITRE, WRITTEN BY CHARNELE BROWN

The Black Man, the Play dives into the minds of why black men do what they do. There is a war going on between black men and black women. In order to get to the root of the problem we must know from whence it comes.

We wrote this play to create dialogue.Read more

Saturday, March 4 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

A marriage of live performance and cinema unlike anything else on Houston stages this year

Live musicians and their amplified string instruments interact with ghostly silent films of Stravinsky and a handful of famous conductors. The voice of Charlie Parker trades riffs with a live saxophonist in a tribute to some of jazz’s greatest players. A newly discovered geometric object challenges our notions of space and time, and dozens of Houston artists appear on screen in collaboration with local musicians – Musiqa on Film is a marriage of live performance and cinema unlike anything else on Houston stages this year.Read more

Saturday, March 4 at 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

By William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King, Directed by Curtis Barber

On a dark and desolate snowy night, successful romance novelist, Paul, crashes his car into a snowbank and is rescued by his “number one fan,” Annie, who brings the unconscious Paul back to her isolated home. While Paul recovers, Annie reads an unpublished manuscript of his latest novel and becomes distraught when she learns that the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Holding him hostage, Annie forces Paul to write a new novel where Misery survives, and he wonders if Annie has any intention of ever letting him go. When loneliness confuses fictional characters for beloved friends, and passion leads to distortion, can either of them survive the misery?Read more

Saturday, March 4 at 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

by Richard Foreman

“ You’re a mirror, Eddie .”

Eddie dreams of escape—from the office where he suffers at the hands of his co-workers, from a doctor whose treatments seem far worse than any possible disease, perhaps from even the play itself! He dreams of escaping to Poetry City, a place he imagines to be Paradise. When he arrives, however, he finds that Poetry City “ melts language,” and totally disrupts the normal laws of cause-and-effect. Entirely disoriented, Eddie attempts to navigate this new and bewildering reality, and slowly comes to consider that his confusion, struggles, and failures may comprise a sort of poetry in themselves and may provide access to Paradise after all. Not in Poetry City, but right here and now, hidden in between moments, but accessible to those who know where to look.

Foreman’s plays, particularly under the direction of Catastrophic core artist Greg Dean, are imagination machines. They provoke laughter or even tears from places so deep within, you didn’t know they were there. They poke and yank at the nerves and thrust you, id-first, into waking dreams. When you wander back into the world, you’ll find yourself awake in ways you hadn’t realized possible and you might find yourself in a new world, one vibrating with new possibilities.Read more