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Friday, July 31, 2026

Friday, July 31 @ 5:00 PM

5:00 PM
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The culminating performance of Hunter Dance Center & Open Dance Project's six-week Pre-Professional Intensive.

Hunter Dance Center and Open Dance Project are proud to announce the expansion of our summer programming into a comprehensive, six-week Pre-Professional Intensive. This expanded format allows us to deepen our commitment to the contemporary dancer’s pre-professional journey. Participants will learn, build, and perform excerpts of Open Dance Project's beloved family production, ALICE , July 31st at MATCH. Join us as we follow Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland where strange and silly creatures teach her about the power of the imagination and the wisdom of nonsense.Read more

Friday, July 31 @ 7:30 PM

7:30 PM
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Vanguard Series, Installment III


Challenging Brown , written by Cris Eli Blak, winner of the 2025 Fade To Black Arts Festival and The Ensemble Theatre’s Premier Theatre Readings, is a powerful story of perseverance, education, and the cost of breaking barriers in a divided America.

Set in 1967 Texas, the play follows Gordon Brown as he becomes the first Black teacher at an all-white high school, stepping into a world shaped by open hostility, quiet resistance, and the daily pressure of proving he belongs. As Gordon confronts racism from both students and faculty, he must lean on his convictions, his dignity, and the support of those closest to him to navigate a system built to reject his presence.

This presentation is the 3rd installment of the Shabach Enterprise Vanguard Series, which spotlights compelling new work and bold contemporary voices.

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Friday, July 31 at 8:00 PM - FREE BEER FRIDAY

8:00 PM
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By Tamarie Cooper & Patrick Reynolds; Directed and Choreographed by Tamarie Cooper

WORLD PREMIERE

“TAMALALIA FOREVER!”

As every good Houstonian knows, Tamarie Cooper creates another in a series of wholly original, full-scale musicals every summer—a Houston institution with a cult following—featuring wildly irreverent scripts, riotously funny songs, wackadoodle dances, spectacular sets, large casts of quadruple-threat performers, a small but mighty band, and of course Houston’s own Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and Bugs Bunny rolled into one, the undefeated champion of ass-clownery, Tamarie Cooper, co-star Kyle Sturdivant forever at her side, chewing up all her expensive scenery.Read more