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TUTS' Encore Boutique special holiday hours, Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. begin on Tuesday, November 25! Encore will remain open before, during and after all performances of Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Encore, the perfect shopping spot for all your most dramatic friends!

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is proudly producing the classic holiday story and brand NEW holiday musical, WHITE CHRISTMAS, December 4-21, 2008 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Houston. The all-time number one pop song and most-recorded tune in history inspired first a beloved classic film, and now a brand-new, splashy family musical…as rare as Texas snow. Staring in TUTS production of Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS is Houston native Kevin Cooney, as General ...

HUNDREDS OF HOUSTON CHILDREN RING IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON AT 21st ANNUAL WORTHAM CENTER TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, and the City of Houston Unite to Kick Off the Holiday Season Houston , TX - On Wednesday, November 26 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, hundreds of Houston area children will celebrate the beginning of the holiday season at the Wortham Center Tree Lighting Ceremony, a joyous, colorful festival held in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Theater ...

HOUSTON BALLET LIGHTS UP THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH THE NUTCRACKER Soloist Tyann Clement Gives Final Performances with Company Christopher Coomer Dances the Prince for the First Time “Chance to Dance” Graduates Featured in Several Performances Houston, TX– From November 28 – December 28, 2008, Houston Ballet brings Texas its most joyous holiday gift, Ben Stevenson’s production of The Nutcracker, seen by over 1,000,000 people since its premiere twenty-one years ago. The ballet ...

Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, Stars of Original Broadway Production and Film Adaptation of RENT To Star! Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) will host the National Tour of RENT at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts, April 29-May 3, 2009, for just five days. Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon, the producers of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical RENT, have announced that original Broadway cast members Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will reprise the roles they made ...

HOUSTON BALLET PRESENTS ONE-NIGHT ONLY JUBILEE OF DANCE: A CELEBRATION OF MOVEMENT Stanton Welch’s Sexy Signature Piece Divergence Highlights Performance Connor Walsh and Sara Webb Perform Balanchine’s Classical Showpiece Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux Company Revives Stanton Welch’s Punctilious Jubilee of Dance Dedicated to Canadian Arts Impresario David Haber Houston, Texas - On Friday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m, Houston Ballet presents the fifth annual Jubilee of Dance, a special ...

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is thrilled to announce that the seventh annual Tommy Tune Awards will include 45 high schools from the Greater Houston area. Developed by TUTS in 2002, the Tommy Tune Awards honor musical theatre excellence at the high school level. During the 2008-2009 school year, a team of 29 Houston-based theatre professionals will evaluate the participating high school productions with the winners announced at a Tony Awards-style ceremony to be held April 21, 2009 at the ...

HOUSTON BALLET LIGHTS UP THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH THE NUTCRACKER Soloist Tyann Clement Gives Final Performances with Company Company Gives 34 Performances of Holiday Classic Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Houston, TX – From November 28 – December 28, 2007, Houston Ballet brings Texas its most joyous holiday gift, Ben Stevenson’s production of The Nutcracker, seen by over 1,000,000 people since its premiere twenty-one years ago. The ballet tells the story of a little girl named ...

Houston Ballet Presents Acclaimed Canadian Troupe Les Grands Ballet Canadians de Montréal in Cullen Series Performances Feature Two Signature Works by Acclaimed Contemporary European Choreographers Didy Veldman and Stijn Celis Houston, Texas – From November 7-8, 2008, Houston Ballet’s Cullen Series, devoted to the performance of contemporary works, presents Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal with two Houston premieres of the most stunning pieces in its repertory by ...

TUTS’ own dazzling production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is part of the 2008-2009 “Wow, What a Season!” offering of fresh new shows. The musical is based on the 1954 movie, “White Christmas” starring Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby, who play war-buddies turned vaudeville showmen. The plot thickens when they meet two song-bird sisters and romantic antics ensue. With a cast of 32, nearly two-dozen musicians, elaborate staging, choreography and costumes, the show is a true spectacle and serves ...

HOUSTON, TX…Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, is coming to Houston for a limited two-week run. Presented by Cadillac Broadway Across America-Houston, Frost/Nixon makes its Houston Premiere October 21-November 2 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby). Award-winning stage and screen actor Stacy Keach takes on the role of President Richard Nixon joined by Alan Cox as ...

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) continues the 2008–2009 season with Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict, based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, in the Brown Theater at the Wortham Theater Center. The production opens on October 30, 2008, with performances continuing through November 14, 2008.

Hurricane Ike Delays Start of Alley Theatre's Cyrano de Bergerac

HOUSTON BALLET CANCELS FREE PERFORMANCE OF ONEGIN ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 AT 2:00 P.M. AT MAYOR WHITE’S REQUEST Houston, Texas – Houston Ballet has cancelled its free performance of Onegin on Sunday, September 21 at 2:00 p.m. at the request of the Mayor’s Office and the Houston Police Department due to public safety concerns about downtown Houston. The free performance of Onegin had originally been scheduled as a gift to lift the spirits of the community in the aftermath ...

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 fine." After waking up Saturday to find a tree on ...

HOUSTON BALLET CANCELS PERFORMANCES OF ONEGIN ON SEPTEMBER 12, 13, and 14, 2008 Houston, TX – Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch announced today that due to the threat posed by Hurricane Ike, Houston Ballet has will cancel its performances of Onegin on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets to the canceled performances will be honored at a later Houston Ballet performance.  ...

HOUSTON BALLET’S FALL REPERTORY PROGRAM CLASSICALLY MODERN FEATURES WORLD PREMIERE AND TWO COMPANY PREMIERES Stanton Welch Creates a New Ballet Inspired by the music of Mediæval Bæbes Company Gives First Performances of Hans van Manen Solo and Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun Houston, TX - From September 18 – September 28, 2008, Houston Ballet presents Classically Modern, a fall repertory program featuring four different interpretations of classical ballet that show ...

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 go on sale Sunday, September 28 and are available at these authorized outlets; ...

HOUSTON—Houston Grand Opera (HGO) launches the 2008 – 2009 season with Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The double bill of verismo operas plays at the Wortham Theater Center October 17 – November 1, 2008.

HOUSTON, TX…Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, makes its Houston Premiere at the Hobby Center during a limited two-week run October 21-November 2. Presented by Cadillac Broadway Across America-Houston, Frost/Nixon stars award-winning stage and screen actor Stacy Keach, who will portray President Richard Nixon joined by Alan Cox as David Frost. Michael Grandage, who directed the ...