Theatre Under The Stars creates for you Lin Manuel Miranda’s exhilarating musical, In the Heights. Before there was Hamilton – there was In the Heights.
Enter the beautiful and vibrant New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythms of three generations of music. This is a place and story filled with dreams and hopes of a bright future. A show filled with amazing dance and the kind of energy to come to the theatre for.
Classical Collaborations brings together the central genres of the Viennese classical “school”—concerto, sonata, symphony, and variations—while foregrounding the contributions of women to this fabled musical culture. Featured works include Marianna Martines’s Concerto in G Major for Fortepiano and Orchestra, Mozart’s “Auernhammer” Sonata in F Major (K. 376), Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 48 (“Maria Theresia”), and Josepha Auernhammer’s “Papageno Variations.”
Join Grammy Award®-winning soprano Ana María Martínez and leading Broadway Music Director and pianist Andy Einhorn in an intimate evening of storytelling and song as they explore Ana María’s rich and winding journey to becoming the artist and woman that she is today. From a childhood steeped in Cuban and Puerto Rican tradition, to her musical education at Juilliard, and then onto the greatest international opera and concert stages of the world — hear the stories, be part of the discovery, and listen to the songs that inspired Ana María’s personal story as she unveils all of the layers of who she was, who she is, and who she is still becoming.
Join Ken Burns as Houston Public Media hosts an evening moderated by Brené Brown, to preview his new film, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The event will feature selections from the documentary, and a behind-the-scenes panel discussion with Burns, his co-director Sarah Botstein, Jane Kamensky, PhD, President & CEO, Monticello and Dr. Kelly Hopkins, an Assistant Professor of Early North American History at the University of Houston.
Fade to Black Festival Community Day and Kickoff Ceremony
June 8 | 12:00 - 4:00 pm
Join us as we launch the Fade to Black Arts Festival with an unforgettable Community Day & Kickoff Ceremony—a vibrant, family-friendly celebration of Black creativity, culture, and community!