If you looking for the best Houston arts organizations have to offer this week you’ve come to the right place. As cautious and responsible optimism grows, below you’ll find not only virtual options to keep you entertained, but a few more in-person, socially distanced events too.
You can join Mercury Chamber Orchestra as they celebrate their platinum anniversary this Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. when they stream their latest digital concert titled
Music Among Friends. Mercury’s co-founders, bassist Antoine Plante (who also serves as the ensemble’s artistic director) and violinist Jonathan Godfrey, will be joined by cellist Courtenay Vandiver Pereira for a program comprised of some of their favorite works from composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. Tickets to celebrate the now 20-year-old ensemble can be purchased for $20 here for the Thursday premiere, which will remain available to stream through April 18.
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A.D. Players at The George Theater announced in January that they were going virtual for the rest of their season and the move to cyberspace begins this Friday, February 12, with
A Speck-Tacular Evening of Stories and Songs with Emily & Jake Speck. You can join A.D. Players Executive Director Jake Speck and his wife Emily Tello Speck to hear their story, from finding each other to finding their place here in Houston, and to enjoy some familiar musical theater tunes. (Take a sneak peek at Emily rehearsing Sara Bareilles’s “She Used to Be Mine” from
Waitresshere). You can purchase a ticket for $35 here, and the show will be available to stream through February 28.
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Editor s Note 4:45 p.m. 1-8-21:
This story has been updated to reflect the fact that Tony DeSare is replacing David Caceres in the Houston Symphony s Big Band program.
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Today is apparently National Bobblehead Day (and yes, we’re surprised that’s a thing, too). We don’t have any bobblehead-related activities coming up, but we do have dance, theater, opera, and more for you to virtually tune in to this week.
As fun as it’s been partaking in all the virtual events over the past few months – and seeing how responsive and flexible many of our arts organizations have been – tonight you can hear about what’s really on our minds: vaccines (and hopefully an eventual end to this pandemic). Asia Society Texas Center will host a webcast tonight, January 7, at 7:30 p.m.,
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The bells are jingling and the carolers are singing as we quickly approach the homestretch this holiday season, and we’ve rounded up some of the best of the best seasonal offerings across Houston’s virtual stages in the coming week. From irreverent to wistful, there’s a little something for everyone.
If you’re in the mood for something heartwarming, familiar and family friendly that’s not seasonally on the nose, how about a musical retelling of a classic fairy tale? The Ensemble Theatre is currently presenting an archival production of the African American Shakespeare Company’s
Cinderella, which the Ensemble staged three years in a row. In a 2011 review, the
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