When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after patriarch Dad up and disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. A vanished father, a pill-popping mother, and three sisters harboring shady little secrets becomes a mixture of brutal honesty and hurtful truth as old wounds reopen and new ones form. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for best play that same year, August: Osage County examines how people function within dysfunction.Read more

Hunter Dance Center presents their annual Student Program recital featuring ballet, modern, aerial, hip hop and circus arts performances by Hunter Dance Center student ages 3 - 18 and special appearances by Hunter's professional company in residence Open Dance Project and its pre-professional dance company in residence, ODP2.

Hunter Dance Center provides exceptional dance training from the ground up for absolute beginners to experienced professionals. We foster a love of dance and movement in all its forms through our stellar faculty of dance artists who are actively involved in the professional field. Creative classes for preschoolers, a rigorous pre-professional program for aspiring young dancers, open dance classes for teens and adults, aerial dance, Pilates reformer sessions and mat classes, barre, and dance related fitness classes can all be found inside our four state of the art studios.

Hunter Dance Center is home to the professional dance theater company Open Dance Project (opendanceproject.org) whose season of world-class dance theater performance is developed and rehearsed at Hunter. Open Dance Project company members teach throughout our levels and programs, directing their expertise and passion towards the training of the next generation of innovative dance artists in Houston and making dance theater more accessible and meaningful to the general public.Read more

Three playwrights from three Houston area high schools premiere their one-act plays at the 2023 Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. Student Playwright Festival: 

Corner Store by Andrea Diaz, directed by Curtis Barber: The true story of the playwright’s Cuban grandfather, Paco Diaz, and how he was arrested fighting for the country he loved.

Get It, Together by Seth Brown, directed by Trevor B. Cone: A young adult must overcome his issues and take care of business, or face losing it all.

The Fifth Passenger by Calliana Duke, directed by Malinda L. Beckham: It’s not easy guiding people through the limbo to the afterlife, especially when you’re literally Death and customer service is a nightmare no matter where you end up.Read more

NobleMotion Dance (NMD) is proud to present their pre-professional company, NMD2, featuring work by NMD directors Colette Kerwick, and Lauren Serrano as well as choreographers Hayden Stark, Travis Lake, and Kyle Craig-Bogard. This concert will also showcase NMD's newest performance programming, Accelerate, which features fourteen dancers and six choreographers including Andy Noble, Brittany Deveau, Evelyn Toh, Francisco Graciano, Justin Curry and Lindsey McGill. Additionally, this show will include solo choreography by NMD2 dancers. Read more

Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theater celebrates Season Five with RAMP!Read more

Tamarie and her cast of musical comedy maniacs are back for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the 26th installment of her hit original musical series juggernaut! In a time when truth is often stranger than fiction, Tamarie’s chock full of veracity, spouting truths about her show, society, basically the whole stinking world. And also her flossing habits. Tamarie and her mostly fearless, occasionally fearsome crew will snark, sing, and dance their way through twisted encounters with Tinkerbelle, Pinocchio, Ben Franklin, Kenny Rogers, and Tamarie's psychic high school attendance clerk, Mrs. Jones, who could catch you in any lie (and find stuff you lost too). Tamarie’s got some personal stuff to tell you too. Some real, some fake. Depends on where you get your news. 

If you’ve seen a Tamarie Cooper Show you’re unlikely ever to have missed another one and, if you haven’t, The Totally True Revue is the perfect opportunity to hop on board. Truth.Read more

Featuring the vocal talents of Robby Black, Erin Clark, Daniel Lopez, Drew Prince, Sarah Watson and Natasha Wroblewski, this incredible cast will perform some of the greatest showstopping songs from Broadway's most memorable shows. Songs from Broadway shows such as West Side Story, Chess, Anatasia, Wicked, Les Miz, Waitress, CATS, Phantom and more; these are the songs that make Broadway - Broadway!

And enjoy the barbershop quartet mastery and tight harmonies of Houston-based Panda Ring featuring the foursome of Patrick McAlexander, Zachary MacLaren, Daniel Laguros and Robby Black. Their repertoire ranges throughout many eras and styles of barbershop harmony, with the highlight being a showstopping rendition of Lyda Rose from The Music Man, sung with HMTC's Erin Clark.Read more

Jump in your Woody Wagon and join us for a special screening of Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY (with on screen welcome from Anderson), reception sponsored by Dionysus Imports Inc, opening Concert with Kelly Doyle, and Stories from the Set with Extra Special Extra Mike Maggart immediately following the film.Read more