SWAMP presents the Houston Premiere of Li Lu's award-winning feature film.

Synopsis: Sylvia returns to her Texas hometown for a friend's wedding. There she meets Esteban, an electrifying stranger. He dares her to join him on a road trip through the Deep South. Starring Agnes Bruckner (The Returned, Once Upon a Time) and Maurice Compte (Narcos, All the Real Girls). Read more

Due to popular demand, we have added a special CABARET MATINEE.  This one time only show combines both of our festival cabarets into one swinging good time!Read more

Katie Rushing's Original Play, 'Wake Up, Mama - A Pregnant Pause".  This comedy/drama is the continuing story of Maggie Sabey, a woman who was overwhelmed with the transition into motherhood, and now finds herself there again during her pregnancy.  Feeling lost, disconnected, and void of purpose, she sets out on a mission to discover who she is and what she is meant to do in this life. Read more

Spinning out from her normative role as lecturer, artist talk-er and teacher, Sheila Pepe will perform a building. Think of it as an architectural drawing of/for culture, constructed with parts simultaneously personal and shared, political and possibly even Political.Read more

Tune in for a Radio Cabaret then watch as three men fight for their lives and sanity in the world premiere of Michael Remson's opera, Three Skeleton Key.Read more

Come for the Cocktail Hour Cabaret and stay a while, you never know who might show up at the world premiere of Omari Tau’s jazz opera, Night At The Algonquin.Read more

In collaboration with Urban Souls Dance Company

Between Two Worlds is an all male cast,  dance theater installation that explores the tension that sometimes exists at the intersection of being both black and gay.Read more

This concert is Houston's first city-wide National Tap Dance Day celebration, bringing together professional tap dancers from all over the state of Texas and local tap dance ensembles for an evening of history-sharing and history-making.  

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