CREATION HOUSE is Vitacca Ballet's choreographic Initiative which builds a platform for Vitacca Ballet Company Artists to discover and share their artistic voices with Houston at large. CREATION HOUSE brings nine new works to life built and performed by: Nikolas Darrough, Ava Dempster, Elissa Fonseca, Jordan Hooks, Khen Kurulkar, Maddie Medina, Melody Mennite, Joshua Ponton, Coltin Snyder and Aidan Wolf.

Under the Direction of Kelly Ann Vitacca, Vitacca Ballet builds approachable contemporary ballet work that combines wit, beauty and athleticism. Driven by creation, Vitacca Ballet shares a progressive ballet lens with a diverse community of artists and patrons within Houston and beyond.Read more

Jazz singer and songwriter Raquel Cepeda presents Jazz on Valentine's Concert 2025, an event to celebrate love, romance, and friendship through the power of music. The concert will feature a repertoire of classic jazz standards and original compositions, with arrangements that incorporate sounds and flavors from around the world in a refined and unique style, the singer and her band will reach the hearts of the beautifully diverse Houston audience in an inspiring evening of sound and message.

Barry Sames on piano, Thomas Helton on double bass, Adriano Santos on drums, Cassio Duarte on percussion, Salvador Velasco on trumpet, and Brian Perez on sax.Read more

Shabach Enterprise's Fade To Black Reading Series returns for its 8th year. 

Fade To Black is Houston's first and only short play festival to showcase the new works of Black playwrights. Each year, as we bring more programs to life, the Fade To Black movement grows! We have already produced the plays of over 300 amazing playwrights and utilized the talents of our culturally diverse theatre community of local actors and directors.Read more

It's time for the Ashcroft Family Holiday Soiree. Siblings Tracey, Amber, and Michael are actively honoring the beloved family tradition established prior to the passing of their parents. Each year, the responsibility of organizing and hosting the Holiday Soiree is entrusted to one sibling, and this year, it falls on Tracey. The planning is progressing well; however, there is one crucial element missing. In the spirit of forgiveness The Invitation is extended to an estranged family member. Read more

Julia Barbosa Landois’s Praise Music Sonogram is a live performance that combines spoken word, video, and experimental sound to tell a story of motherhood, miscarriage, and abortion access across national and state borders. Contrasting an unexpected experience in a European haven for healthcare seekers with the medical scarcity and the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade in the U.S., Barbosa Landois delivers a narrative that is both deeply personal and unexpectedly comedic.Read more

After years of estrangement, the Turnover family reunites at their small-town Texas estate to bid farewell to the family patriarch, who has suffered a debilitating stroke. Joined by their plus-ones, they bring with them a tangled web of family trauma, greed, and jealousy.

Everyone is eager to claim their share of the inheritance—but there’s one major problem: who has the will?! What starts as a somber farewell quickly spirals into chaos as the family embarks on a frantic hunt to locate it.

This sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious journey through family dynamics offers moments of sharp wit, surprising warmth, and a poignant reminder: sometimes losing something precious is the only way to find what truly matters.

Don't miss what Variety called "A masterful comedy," and what the L.A. Times called "A knockout."Read more

The HGFF consistantly brings its patrons the very best of Greek and Cypriot Cinema from all over the world, including all Greek/Cypriot candidates for the American Academy Awards. Past entrys of the Festival include POLYXENI, JAMAICA, KAZANTZAKIS, HOLY BOOM, 1968, THE SIEGE ON LIPERTI STREET, EFTIHIA, DIGGER, SMYRNA, MY BELOVED, and BLACK STONE just to name a few. In addition to the directors, producers, writers and actors we all look to every year in the Greek-cinema world, because of their ever-growing world impact and recognition in film, the Houston Greek Film Festival focuses a lot of energy on cultivating the very best short films - and is lucky enough to be home to several young film makers and industry professionals. Look for the "home-grown" talent we make sure to include every year!Read more