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Press Releases - Performing Arts and Entertainment News for Houston Theater District

 
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Houston Grand Opera Announces its 2009-10 Season

Release Date: 6-Feb-09
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
Highlights: Company begins multi-year German opera series with Lohengrin New production of Tosca to open in January 2010 Acclaimed productions of Queen of Spades and Xerxes highlight spring repertory The chilling third installment of the multi-year Benjamin Britten series Mainstage Season: Donizetti: The Elixir of Love Wagner: Lohengrin (New Production) Puccini: Tosca (New Production) Britten: The Turn of the ...
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Houston Grand Opera to Present a Free Live HD Broadcast to Discovery Green

Release Date: 22-Jan-09
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
On February 7, 2009, for the first time in four years, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will offer a free live simulcast of its newest production, Chorus! from the stage of the Wortham Theater Center in downtown Houston. This event represents the return of the once-popular free live transmissions formerly called “Plazacasts,” which will be transmitted to a climate controlled tent at Discovery Green Park. Due to the expanded reach, HGO “Plazacasts” ...
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Music Director Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony Announce the 2009-2010 Season

Release Date: 15-Jan-09
Author or Contact: Holly Cassard
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Symphony
From Der Rosenkavalier to a Red Carpet Oscar Party, Schubert to Mary Wilson of the Supremes, The Planets—An HD Odyssey to Pink Martini, Beethoven to Beauty and the Beast, the Houston Symphony’s stellar 2009-2010 season has something for everyone. The star-studded lineup includes a world premiere and a North American premiere, the world’s most acclaimed female conductor, Houston’s former music director Christoph Eschenbach joined by Lang Lang, ...
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Houston Grand Opera presents Chorus!

Release Date: 9-Jan-09
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) continues the 2008–2009 season with Chorus! a new work featuring the highly acclaimed HGO Chorus and Orchestra, in the Brown Theater at the Wortham Theater Center. The production opens on January 30, 2009, with performances continuing through February 13, 2009.
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Houston Grand Opera presents Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Release Date: 9-Jan-09
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  What's New  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
HGO continues its Benjamin Britten Cycle with a new production by award winning director Neil Armfield. OPENS FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2009
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Spring Awakening Opens January 6

Release Date: 17-Dec-08
Author or Contact: Meridyth Garcia
HOUSTON, TX…Broadway’s most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to Houston January 6-18, 2009. Presented by Cadillac Broadway Across America-Houston, Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby) and will play for 16 performances. Starting at $26, tickets to Spring Awakening are available at these ...
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Friends University Ballet Director takes in Uniquely Houston's Dominic Walsh Dance Theater

Release Date: 17-Sep-08
Author or Contact: Lori Yount
Friends ballet director takes in Texas dancers BY LORI YOUNT The Wichita Eagle Nine members of the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater left Houston on Sunday, after Hurricane Ike came ashore early Saturday morning, knocking out power to their studios and trees onto their houses. Stan Rogers, ballet director at Friends University, invited the company to evacuate to Wichita before the storm hit, but Dominic Walsh said the company would "be ...
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HOUSTON GRAND OPERA RECEIVES $250K GRANT FROM HEARST FOUNDATION

Release Date: 15-Jul-08
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
HOUSTON- Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has received at $250,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation to support its Student Performance Series and Teacher Workshops for three years. These programs are administered by HGO’s education and community programs department - HGOco.
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HOUSTON GRAND OPERA GENERAL DIRECTOR ANTHONY FREUD

Release Date: 1-Jul-08
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
Anthony Freud, OBE, General Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OPERA America, the national service organization for opera. The election took place at the annual OPERA America conference 2008 in Denver on June 11th. Freud will serve an initial term of two years and succeeds Charles MacKay, General Director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
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Houston Grand Opera takes Camps to the Houston Community

Release Date: 23-Jun-08
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
This summer, HGOco, Houston Grand Opera’s community outreach department, will partner with Project Row Houses and YES Prep Public School Southeast Campus for Create an Opera camp projects, which are underwritten by AIG American General. Students, with the help of HGO and community teaching artists, will produce their own original musical work– adapting a story into a libretto; composing music; creating costumes, props and scenery; and performing ...
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Houston Grand Opera 2007-2008 Annual Meeting

Release Date: 11-Jun-08
Author or Contact: Christopher Novosad
Category:  Recent News  Subcategory:  Houston Grand Opera
Company reports balanced budget and a Houston Endowment grant to support the NEXUS Initiative
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THE PASSION AND JOY OF GREAT MUSIC PERFORMED LIVE REACH NEW HEIGHTS IN THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY 2008-2009 SEASON

Release Date: 21-Jan-08
Author or Contact: Lauren Walker
Category:  What's New  
THE PASSION AND JOY OF GREAT MUSIC PERFORMED LIVE REACH NEW HEIGHTS IN THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY 2008-2009 SEASON Hans Graf’s Eighth Season Features Great Musical Works and Great Artists Innovative SoundPlusVision Concerts Return Houston, Texas, January 18, 2008 - - The Houston Symphony today announced details of its 2008-2009 Season, including a two-day musical “competition” between Bach and Vivaldi, the return of Sir André ...
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Mi Colombia, A Powerful And Vivid Expression of Colombian Dance and Music at the Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Release Date: 25-Oct-07
Author or Contact: Eberto  Amador
Category:  What's New  
Experience the strength and passion of a living, dancing example of pride, determination, and talent featuring local and international renowned artists from Colombia.
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ACT@TUTS TAKES YOU TO A WHOLE NEW WORLD IN SEPTEMBER PRODUCTION OF DISNEY'S

Release Date: 4-Aug-06
Author or Contact: Meridyth Garcia
Category:  What's New?  
Take flight on a magic carpet ride filled with magic and mayhem when ACT@TUTS’ (Apprentice Conservatory Training at Theatre Under The Stars) production of Disney’s Aladdin Jr. plays September 14-16 at the Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall (800 Bagby at Walker). With music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Aladdin Jr. features a marvelous score containing all the well-known songs from the Academy award-winning film ...
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TONY AWARD-WINNING “WEST SIDE STORY” TO KICK OFF TUTS' 2006-2007 SEASON

Release Date: 4-Aug-06
Author or Contact: Meridyth Garcia
Category:  What's New?  
Something’s coming, something good when Theatre Under The Stars produces the Tony Award-winning musical, West Side Story, from October 24-November 5 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby at Walker). With music by the legendary creative team of Arthur Laurents (librettist), Leonard Bernstein (composer) and Stephen Sondheim (lyricist), West Side Story features some of Broadway’s most beloved music including, “Somewhere,” “One ...
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Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy Presents Summer Intensive Showcase

Release Date: 26-Jul-06
Author or Contact: Cassie Patterson McClung
Category:  Houston Ballet  
Houston, Tx -- On Thursday, July 27 and Friday, July 28, Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy will present two public performances with over three hundred dancers from across the U.S. and abroad in the 2006 Summer Intensive Showcase at 8:00 p.m., Proscenium Theater, Marie Flickinger Fine Arts Building, San Jacinto Community College-South, 13735 Beamer Road, Houston. Ticket prices are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets will be sold at ...
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