Cabaret Matinee
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
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Wake Up, Mama - A Pregnant Pause
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
A Party With No Agenda
In this directly indirect wink and a nudge of a performance, Sondra Perry and the audience will work through how ideology, didacticism, and abstraction are visualized through bodies and popular culture.Read more
WE Are PAPER TOWEL: A Cultural Construction performed by Sheila Pepe
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
"Three Skeleton Key" and a "Radio Cabaret"
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
"Night at the Algonquin" with a "Cocktail Hour Cabaret"
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
Sheila Pepe invites Sondra Perry
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Sheila Pepe invites Sondra Perry
Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place + I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place + I'm Afraid I Can't Do That is a commissioned installation by artist Sheila Pepe that serves as an open meeting space and platform for several events, including a video installation by current MFAH Core Fellow Sondra Perry.Read more
Between Two Worlds
Harrison Guy presents
Between Two Worlds
A Hymn for Black Gay Men on Race, Religion, & Rites of Passage
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
National Tap Dance Day Celebration
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.
2016 Houston Caribbean Queen Pageant
The Houston Caribbean Queen Pageant is a cultural, educational and festive event that seeks to celebrate the talent and intellectual abilities of young Caribbean and Latin American women. This year we are featuring 4 divisions of contestants - Princess, Teen, Miss, and Queen.Read more
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