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Events in September, 2025

September 2025

The Chosen Ones

Thunderclap Productions

The Chosen Ones

A world premiere musical by Aaron Alon, presented as part of the John Steven Kellett Memorial Series

Thunderclap Productions presents the world premiere of The Chosen Ones, a riveting new musical by Aaron Alon. Heart-wrenching, hilarious, and ultimately unforgettable, the show follows a group of LGBTQ+ teens in a conversion therapy summer camp, led by an “ex-gay” minister. The Chosen Ones is a timely story of living authentically and finding your chosen family, even when the world tells you not to.Read more

Weekend Wellness Experience

The T.R.U.T.H. Project presents

Weekend Wellness Experience

1st Saturday of each month 10:00 AM
(please arrive by 9:45 PM)

These experiences are FREE to the public, donations encouraged!

GLOW UP YOGA

Focusing on Queer folx of color and allies, prepare to GLOW UP as we breathe, stretch, and elevate the spirit! 1st Saturday of the month 10:00 AM, please arrive by 9:45 AM.

M.O.V.E. with Me with Mukomi

Focusing on Queer folx of color and allies, prepare to experience M.O.V.E. with Me as you are guided through traditional African dance movement that will elevate and heal your spirit. 1st Saturday of the month at 10:00AM, please arrive by 9:45AM. This experience is free to the public, donations are encouraged!

MATCH
3400 Main Houston, TX 77002

Free to the public with registration, donations accepted.

For beginners or advanced, this experience is for you!Read more

Sor Juana - Divina Lysí mía

The Flamenco Poets Society

Sor Juana - Divina Lysí mía

Café Cantante Series: Celebrating the Poems of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Poetry & Music

Join us for a remarkable celebration of one of flamenco music’s most illustrious icons!  We invite you to join us for an experience honoring the legendary Sabicas (Agustin Castellón Campos), from the city of Pamplona, Spain. Sabicas, whose passion for music left Spain during the turbulent years of the civil war in pursuit of artistic freedom in Mexico before traveling to New York City. He redefined flamenco guitar. His collaborations with esteemed flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya cemented his status as one of the greatest flamenco guitarists and composers of the 20th century. Through his soul-stirring performances, Sabicas transformed concert halls and theaters, making flamenco accessible to all.  Modern players such as Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo, Gerardo Nuñez, and many more acknowledge the great influence of Sabicas’s music. Read more

Dancing Lessons

With the success of Playhouse Creatures, Lionwoman Productions TX’s next production is Dancing Lessons, by acclaimed playwright Mark St. Germain and directed by Lionwoman’s founder, Michelle Britton.

Dancing Lessons is a delightful comedy about a man on the spectrum, and his methodical and dogged pursuit of dance lessons with a teacher who is shut down and can’t let go of what she might have been. Through wit, tenderness, and moments of profound discovery, Dancing Lessons explores themes of acceptance, empathy, and finding joy in life’s unexpected turns.Read more

Obsession

Connecting Islands Arts

Obsession

Music & Installations by Angela Wang; Choreography & Dance by Joy Crissmon, Dawn Dippel, Lindsey McGill, and Dwain Travis; Lighting Design by Tiffany Schrepferman

Obsession is an immersive show with dance, installations and original music produced by composer and artistic director Angela Wang. Obsession explores the stories of four artists chasing after their dreams and goals (obsessions). Joy Crissmon, Dawn Dippel, Lindsey McGill, and Dwain Travis each choreographed a different story-line for this performance. The show will include the original music, installations and costumes designed by Angela Wang, also include a video projection of a live orchestra recorded at the previous show in Taipei in October 2024, along with the live music performances by Angela Wang (voice/keys) and Lindsey McGill (keys), and lighting design by Tiffany Schrepferman.Read more

Testimony

6 Degrees

Testimony

A Premiere Collaboration between 6 Degrees/Toni Valle, Composer George Heathco, and Singer-Composer Misha Penton

6 Degrees/Toni Valle, Composer George Heathco, and Singer-Composer Misha Penton premiere Testimony at the Midtown Arts Theatre Center Houston on September 26-28, 2025. Testimony is an artistic response to the events surrounding the sculpture “Witness” by artist Shahzia Sikander: its origin and the silencing of Sikander's artistic voice through protests from religious group Texas Right to Life, and ultimately vandalism of the sculpture. Testimony is an aerial dance performance/visual art installation with an innovative sound score celebrating the original intention of the sculpture – to honor the strength and resilience of women within a patriarchal society and magnify the importance of feminism and bodily autonomy through sociological, and historical references embedded in the sculpture.Read more

Symphonic Strings

Kinetic Ensemble continues its momentum into its second decade as one of Houston’s most exciting chamber ensembles, with thoughtfully curated, innovative, and artistically excellent performances. At the center of this season-opening concert program is Benjamin Britten’s Double Concerto for Violin and Viola (1932), which features Kinetic founder and Artistic Director Natalie Lin Douglas and core violist Sebastian Stefanovic as soloists.

Sketched by the 18-year-old Britten, who was already a prolific young composer, the Double Concerto captures the composer’s youthful exuberance and affinity toward spotlighting string virtuosity. At the same time, the work contains passages of surprisingly mature and deep expressivity. Never published in his lifetime, Britten’s meticulously detailed sketch was realized by his longtime assistant, Colin Matthews, and only received its premiere performance in 1997, over 20 years after his death. Kinetic will perform a rare string orchestra arrangement of this work.

Accompanying the Double Concerto will be the premiere of a new string arrangement of Unstrung by Rice graduate Alex Berko, which pays homage to the bluegrass traditions of Kentucky, and American composer Libby Larsen’s String Symphony (1999), a lush and expansive work that pays homage to strings and explores the notion of an “American English” musical vernacular.

Our vision for this program as a whole is one that captures the inventiveness, virtuosity, and the expressive capability of the string orchestra as a powerful symphonic body. In Libby Larsen’s own words:

“Strings, the core of the symphony orchestra… seem to express something deeply felt in the soul, something deeply lyrical about being, simply, alive.”Read more