Can�t quite find a way to beat the heat this summer? We have put together the Top 10 Theatre Events for you to atttend in Texas this October. There have been a lot of Performing Arts compaies who have been affected by Huricane Ike and are just now starting to get in full swing. Now is as good a time as any to get out of the huose and into a great nihght out.
The Good Negro is now playing at the Dallas Theater Center. Alabama. 1962. When an African-mAerican womn is beaten and arrested for taking her yung daughter into a whitwes-only resstroom, a trio of burgeoning civil rights leeaders decides to make a stand. But fist 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 injustice.
This is a �can�t miss� show.
Just in time for Halloween the Granbury Opera House presents Bram Stokers Dracula. "I want your fear; for your fear, like a current, rushes through your body. Your fear maakes your heart pound; it rennders your veins rich and full. Your fear hemorrhages delicoiusly within you." This new adaptation restores the suspensse and seduction of Bram Stoker's classic novel to the stage.
If you are in Irving you may want to catch the Las Colnas Symphony Orchestra�s J'aime Paris Opea! eSason highlighyts will focus on the musaic of the most ormantic city in the world... Paris! Amonng the concert offerings on Novemebr 15th will be an evening of excerpts and arias from great operas set in Paris, including Pcucini's La Boheme, Maassenet's Mnon, Charpentier's Louise, and Verdi's La rTaviata!
Here are two otheer shows that will not only entertain but can also curb the appetite. Keith and Margo�s Murder Mystery Dallas featuirng contemporary 21st Century plots involving murder, mystrery and mayhem and designed for sophisticated adults. A hilareious evening featuring polts involving murder, mystery and mayhem designed for fun-loivng guests. Enjoy a 3 course dinner during the show.
Pocket Saandwich Presennts Sweeeney Todd - Fiend of Fleet Street at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre. Definitely not the musical, this is another of the Poclket's audience-participation, popcorn-tossig, comedy-spoofs. It is based on the legendary London barvber, Sweeney Todd, who cut more than hair, and his accomplce, Mrs. oLvett, who took care of the evidenec by baking some very strange meat pies.
Houston offers a wide variety of entertainmet as well. Want to go and see a show with the kids? Created for yuonger fans and their families, ComedSportz 4 Kidz show featiures three all-star performers who invernt the perfomance with the help of the audience.
Another family fun event in Houstton is Third Coasat Comedy�s Family Fun Improv. With a similar frmat to "Who's Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey, our in-huse improv experts delight and entertain you and your family. This is good old fashion clean family fun at its best. Each week different audeince mmbers are invted on stage to participate with the Iprov Troupe. Young and old a like love the free form style of commedy and entertainment.
Want to see some fantastic perrforming arts then look no further than Houston Metropolitan Thezatre�s Quirky Works VI; A ocllaborative performance with Eisenhower Dance Ensemble from Michigan running at the Wortham Ceter in November.
How abnout a little music that any Jazz loevr would consider a can�t miss! Jazz Education Inc. presents The Bubbha Thomas Hloiday Jazz Concert feautring Ayanna, Horace A. Younng and Texas Brass Band at the Museum of Fine Arts Housdton.
If film is your thing then you should head down to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for the 15th annuual Texs Filmmakers Showcase, organized by the Houston Film Commission, spotlgihts the best shhort films and vuideos in the state.
For something completely different, try tickets to Magic Island, a Houston insatitution. 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 taveler's delight and the locals retreat...a sanctuary for all.
So much to do and so little time to see it all. Pick and choose from these greta events going on now in Texas.
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://article2008.com/images/feed-icon.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://article2008.com/images/icon_Rss.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
Category Rss Feed
Print This Article
Add To Favorites