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Live at the Founders Club

2025-2026 Live at the Founders Club Season

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Small-Club Vibes. Big-Stage Talent. Join us back in the Founders Club for the 2025-2026 season showcasing 9 diverse artists in an intimate music club setting. Full season 9-Show and 6-Show Pick-Your-Own Packages on sale now.

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PARADE

Parade

Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2025

Winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical, PARADE has been proclaimed as “a work of art! As commanding as any musical revival to hit Broadway in years” (Deadline). Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in the old red hills of Georgia. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion. Riveting and gloriously hopeful, PARADE reminds us that to love, we must truly see one another.

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Iolanthe

Iolanthe

Jul 19 - Jul 27, 2025

The comic works of Gilbert & Sullivan are the foundation on which American musical theater is built. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri, their seventh opera, satirizes British politics, particularly the House of Lords. The story begins with the return of Iolanthe, a fairy who had been banished for marrying a mortal. Her son, Strephon, is a half-fairy shepherd who loves Phyllis, a ward of the Lord Chancellor. However, the entire House of Lords also has designs on her.

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The Music of Journey

The Music of Journey

Jul 26, 2025

Prepare for an exhilarating night as the Houston Symphony presents The Music of Journey! Combining full rock lighting, an amazing rock band, extraordinary vocalist Juan Del Castillo, and the sonic power of the Houston Symphony, you’ll hear one mega-hit after the next—from “Any Way You Want It” and “Wheel In the Sky” to “Faithfully” and “ “Don’t Stop Believin’”— as we celebrate one of the biggest bands of all time.

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Poetic Dance

Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting

Aug 9 - Aug 10, 2025

Inspired by A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, the Northern Song Dynasty’s monumental landscape scroll and unparalleled treasure of the Palace Museum, the piece has been rarely exhibited and never permitted abroad. Finally, this dynamic production brings a national masterpiece to life. Rendered in vivid blue-green mineral pigments and created by the prodigious 18-year-old artist, Wang Ximeng, the original scroll remains an emblem of classical Chinese aesthetics and artistic transcendence.

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PARADEPARADE

Parade

Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2025

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IolantheIolanthe

Iolanthe

Jul 19 - Jul 27, 2025

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The Music of JourneyThe Music of Journey

The Music of Journey

Jul 26, 2025

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Peking OperaPeking Opera

Taipei Li-Yuan Peking Opera: Three Excerpts of Peking Opera

Aug 2, 2025

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Peking OperaPeking Opera

Taipei Li-Yuan Peking Opera: Monkey King Fights the Skeleton Demon

Aug 3, 2025

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Poetic DancePoetic Dance

Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting

Aug 9 - Aug 10, 2025

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