The Houston Fringe Festival's annual spring showcase, Best of Fringe 2019, returns with a one-night engagement at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston's beautiful Matchbox Three theater. On May 10, musical theater group PMT Productions will host an evening of performance art, contemporary dance, dance-for-camera, rock opera, and performance poetry featuring four newcomers to the Houston Fringe Festival roster and six returning veterans. Roster includes ARCOS Dance (Austin), Brittani Broussard, Call Me Ann Collective, Cynthia Garcia, Holly Moran, Kay Adshead, Lauren Hurstell, Tory Pierce, Tehillah Hartmann, and WIP Productions (Chicago). Read more

Two bewitching and sonorous string works - Tchaikovsky’s homage to his idol Mozart, modernizing classical elements with his own lush and lyrical style, is paired with Elgar’s delightful and endearing early work. 

The Neighborhood Series is made possible also in part by the Houston Endowment and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.Read more

In the Blood introduces us to Hester, a woman of the street who has five children by five different fathers. Hester lives in a state of illiteracy while claiming as a home for herself and her children the underside of a bridge. She is offered ineffectual help by her closest friend, Amiga Gringa, by a social worker, by a roaming medical doctor, and by an evangelical street preacher. Help is seemingly at hand when Chili, the father of her first “treasure,” Jabber, appears and offers her a chance for rescue. In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Read more

Houston's top youth poets, emcees, and spoken word artists compete for a chance to join the internationally-renowned Meta-Four Houston youth slam team. The top 6 winners of the Space City Grand Slam will represent Houston at the Brave New Voices International Poetry Slam Festival, held this summer in Las Vegas. Read more

Bees are dying; governments are worried. Top-notch universities are racing to explain Colony Collapse Disorder.Read more

Brooke and Zeke are excited to star in their school's next hit musical, The Phantom – until they hear a rumor that the show is cursed. Mysterious events start happening at the theater, and no one can be sure if it’s just coincidence or the work of…The Phantom! This silly and (only a little) spooky musical is based on the beloved series from R. L. Stine.Read more

After a lifetime of misery, Laura Willowes is done with the world of men. The moon is up, the autumn wind is calling, and a mysterious hunter waits in the forest. It's time to go...Read more

SUSTENTO: from La Performera to La Mujer Maravilla is a lecture-performance by the transdisciplinary artist, Awilda Rodríguez Lora also known as La Performera. Stories, movements, and songs are strategies used by La Performera to invite the audience to reflect on the concept of sustento (sustenance) as a complex and vital idea for survival in creative and everyday practices.Read more