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Events on Friday, May 23, 2025

Friday, May 23, 2025

Friday, May 23 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Featuring premieres by composer Mason Bynes, Evan Ziporyn, and Giancarlo Latta

Kinetic Ensemble closes out its milestone 10th season with a program tracing and celebrating its Houston roots. The evening features no less than three premieres: a new work by composer Mason Bynes (who hails from Sugar Land, and is now based in New York) that expands upon her school-age hobby of composing musical telegrams for friends and classmates; the Texas premiere of In Light of Sound by genre-defying artist Evan Ziporyn , written for Kinetic’s residency at MIT earlier this Spring; and a short fanfare by founding member, violinist-composer Giancarlo Latta . The program concludes with Benjamin Britten ’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge , which is a nod to Kinetic’s first performance in 2015 that featured this work. Celebrate 10 years of collaborative music-making and “thoughtful, incisive programming” (Arts and Culture Texas) with Kinetic!Read more

Friday, May 23 at 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Written By William Shakespeare, Directed by Rebecca Bernstein

Zoom Shakespeare Productions is thrilled to present its fifth in-person show: a free-spirited, 1970s-set production of one of William Shakespeare’s zaniest comedies, Twelfth Night ! Running from May 15th-24th for only seven performances, this exciting production sets Shakespeare's classic tale of love, mischief, and mistaken identity in the beautiful, San Francisco-like, Ilyria, California.Read more

Friday, May 23 at 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

WRITTEN BY TRACY LETTS; DIRECTED BY MALINDA L. BECKHAM & CURTIS BARBER

Agnes is a lonely waitress with a fondness for isolation. Peter is a Gulf War drifter. As an unexpected love affair develops in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, mysterious bugs begin to take over their space. Are they simple pests or could they be the result of military experiments? The couple's fears soon escalate to paranoia, conspiracy theories, and twisted psychological motives that disrupt any attempt at normalcy. A Tracy Letts cult classic, Bug explores the darkness in the void.Read more