Melt is the debut solo album and “alternate reality” from María Zardoya, the lead singer and songwriter of the Grammy-nominated indie-pop band The Marías. The idea began with a question, which came to Zardoya while isolating in the snowy hills of Upstate New York: “Is love worth the pain?” As if under nature’s spell, Zardoya transformed her winter heartache into a collection of intimate psychedelic ballads, imbued with a touch of gothic romanticism.
Night Court is a party like no other. Notorious Houston lawyer and socialite Paul Broodman hosts a gala at his River Oaks mansion and getting an invite to this swanky party is to die for—literally. As a violent storm rages and isolates partygoers inside Broodman’s Clue-like mansion, murder is on the menu. The RSVP is Dial L for Lawyer. After all, a little party never killed nobody.
Meet Miss Dee, the Queen of the Hood—rocking her housecoat, smoking a cigarette, pushing her oxygen tank, and keeping everybody laughing with her unfiltered mouth!
Meredith Willson’s six-time Tony Award®-winning beloved musical comedy The Music Man marches into Houston with laughter, heart, and all the music you love. Following the fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize. Featuring songs such as “Seventy-Six Trombones,” “Trouble,” “’Till There Was You,” “Pick-a-Little,” and “Gary, Indiana,” The Music Man is a classic musical to be shared with every generation.
The 2026/27 Visions & Visionaries season begins with musical depictions of the hunt, a favorite aristocratic pastime with potentially lethal consequences. Charpentier’s chamber opera Actéon tells the tale of a hunter whose brief vision of Diana proves fatal, while Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie relates the story of two lovers who, while fleeing a vengeful stepmother, enjoy a brief hunt in the forest. Both feature tenor Richard Pittsinger in his Ars Lyrica debut. Heinichen’s Concerto in F Major spotlights the horns and oboes, traditional instruments of the hunt.