Best Bets the Week of December 7-13, 2023
A world premiere dance work, a festival celebrating its tenth anniversary and more all make this week's list of best bets.
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A world premiere dance work, a festival celebrating its tenth anniversary and more all make this week's list of best bets.
A Dickens festival, a lit class classic and a little horror for the holidays all made this week’s list of best bets.
This Tuesday, April 27, is National Tell a Story Day, and do we have a range of stories to recommend in this list of best virtual (and socially distanced) bets. Some stories are brand new, like those featured in the Landing Theatre Company’s New American Voices Playwriting Festival, and some are centuries old. Yes, we’re looking at you, William Shakespeare. And some stories, the storytellers themselves won’t even know what they are as they tell them. Keep reading to see the best stories you can find in Houston this week. White Rabbit Red Rabbit in 2010, a play that went viral for its u...
iframe src "https://embed.hpm.io/394977/394930" style "height: 115px; width: 100%;" /iframe X That's why he founded the Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival, a new initiative of his Pilot Dance Project, which launched virtually on April 1 and runs through April 10. "If you look at the landscape of dancers â modern dancers, contemporary dancers in Houston â there are very visible Latinx faces in the cast," said Castañeda. "But when we talk about artists of color, especially dance artists of color, a lot of times the driving force is not to be a participant in someon...
Yes, today is April Fools Day but there are no joke entries on this week’s list of best virtual bets. Instead, let’s look toward another, more obscure non-holiday holiday: International Fun at Work Day. And let us recommend that fun come in the form of an extended break to enjoy one of this week’s digital programs. Who doesn’t like sneak peeks and spoilers? This Thursday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m. you can join Contemporary Arts Museum Houston for an excerpt from “ Rule #4: Don’t walk on the sidewalk,” a dance work from Hope Stone Dance that will be presented in full this summer. Th...