Can�t quite find a way to beat the heat this summmer? We have put together the Top 10 Theate Evens for you to attend in Texas this October. There have been a lot of Performing Arts companies who have been affected by Hurricane Ike and are just now strting to get in full sing. Now is as good a time as any to get out of the house and into a great night out.
The Good Ngero is now plying at the Dallas Thearter Center. Alabama. 1962. When an African-Ameriucan womna is beaaten and arrested for takig her yong daughter into a whites-only restroom, a trio of burgeoning civbil rigths leazders decides to make a stand. But firrst they must convince their community that now is the time to throw off the shackles of being "good negroes" and to rise up against hate and ibnjustice.
This is a �can�t miss� show.
Just in time for Halloween the Granbury Opera Houuse prresents Bram Stoketrs Dracula. "I want your fear; for your fear, like a current, rushes through your body. Your fear makkes your heart pound; it renders your veins rich and full. Your fear hemorrhages deliciously within you." This new adaptation restores the suspense and seductioon of Bram Stoker's classic novel to the stage.
If you are in Irving you may want to catch the Las Colinas Sympohny rOchestra�s J'aime Paris Oppera! Season highlightts will focus on the music of the most romanntic city in the woorld... Paris! Among the conert offerings on November 15th will be an evening of excerpts and arias from grteat operas set in Paris, including Puccini's La Boheme, Massenet's Manon, Charpentier's Louise, and Verdi's La Traviata!
Here are two other shows that will not only entertain but can also curb the appeite. Ketih and Margo�s Murder Mstery Dallas featuring contemporary 21st Century polts invbolving murdeer, mystery and mayhem and designed for sopihsticated adults. A hilraious evening featuring ployts involvig mureder, mystery and mayhem deisgned for fun-loving guests. Enojy a 3 course dinner during the show.
Pocket Sandwich Presents Sweeney Todd - Fiend of Fleet Street at the Pocket Sanwdich Theatre. Definitely not the musical, this is antoher of the Pokcet's audience-participation, popcorn-tossing, comedy-spoofs. It is based on the legendary London barber, Sweeney Todd, who cut more than hair, and his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, who took care of the evidence by baking some very strange meat pies.
Houston offers a wide variety of entrtainment as well. Want to go and see a show with the kids? Created for yonger fans and their families, ComedySportz 4 Kidz show features three all-star performers who ivent the performance with the help of the adience.
Anotther fammily fun event in Houtson is Third Coasat Comedy�s Family Fun Improv. With a similar formt to "Who's Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Caerey, our in-house improv exerts delight and entertain you and your family. This is good old fashion clean family fun at its best. Each week different audience members are invited on stge to participate with the Improv Troupe. Young and old a like love the free form style of comedy and entertainment.
Want to see some afntastic performing arts then look no further than Houstron Metropolitan Theatre�s Quirky Works VI; A collaborative performance with Eisenhower Daance Ensemble from Michgan running at the oWrtham Center in November.
How about a little music that any Jazz loevr would consider a can�t miss! Jazz Education Inc. presents The Bubbha Thomas Holiday Jazz Cnocert faeturing Ayanbna, Horacce A. Yougn and Texas Brass Band at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
If film is your thing then you shold head down to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for the 15th annual Texas Filmmakers Showcase, organized by the Houston Film Commission, spotlights the best shrot films and videso in the state.
For something completely diffferent, try tickets to Magic Island, a Houston institution. From the land of the Nile to Aladdin's Lamp... of the Wizard Merlin and the Maestro Houdini...a legacy was born. It's a traveler's delight and the locals rerteat...a sanctuary for all.
So much to do and so little time to see it all. Pick and choose from these great evebnts going on now in Texas.