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Best Choreographer
Award Winner 2008

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Made in America

May 24

There are lots of firsts in Houston Ballet’s spring repertory program, Made in America. There’s the company premiere of Drink to Me Only with Thine...
Gillian Welch

8:00 p.m. June 6

Gillian Welch seems preserved in amber. Her music is so far out of time it's a little startling to stumble across a photo of her even wearing jeans...
Romeo and Juliet

June 7
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony

October 6
Robert Kennedy, Jr.

November 5

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2008 | Best Choreographer

It's not easy running a major ballet company -- you have to deal with daily headaches, budgets and dancer dilemmas, not to mention create groundbreaking choreography. Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch handles it and still manages to create dances that dazzle. Whether he's restaging classics and creating his own full-length ballets, like the 2006 Swan Lake, or doing cutting-edge works, like this year's A Doll's House, he's in his element. His dance-making... More »
2000 | Best Motorcycle Parking Lot

Maybe these are just the moments that downtown finally arrives. Party on the Plaza is in full swing. So is its dynamic corner of the central city, with Bayou Place beckoning the masses across the street. And there, on the magnificent grounds that serve as the front entrance to the Wortham Theater Center, are scores of motorcycles at rest in neatly lined rows. The bikers rumble in to party at the plaza, and what better place to park 'em than on off-nights at the Wortham. All the nightlife... More »

George Clooney: Hollywood Humanitarianism: To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, May 03, 2012

He’s charming, talented and very, very handsome. And this week, he’ll be at the Wortham Theater Center discussing his remarkable Hollywood career, not only as an actor and director but as a humanitarian. George Clooney’s presentation, “Hollywood H... More »
Houston Loves George Clooney: A Walk Down Clooney Lane

By Abby Koenig | Fri, April 27, 2012

Holy heart attack, Batman! In less than a week's time, the one and only Mr. George Clooney will grace our metro with his magnificent aura. Clooney will join Houston celebutante Lynn Wyatt as the feat... More »
Houston Metropolitan Dance Company: Signature Works

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, April 26, 2012

Find out what Lola wants at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s Signature Works. The program includes new works and audience favorites, with New York-based choreographer Joe Calej’s Whatever Lola Wants among the pieces reprised. “It’s a prett... More »
Houston Grand Opera's Mary Stuart: Hail, Joyce DiDonato!

By D.L. Groover | Mon, April 23, 2012

For more on the Houston Grand Opera production of Mary Stuart, read our interviews with Joyce DiDonato, Katie Van Kooten and Eric Cutler. The setup: There's an old Italian operatic term, one that p... More »
Indecent Proposal

By D. L. Groover | Thu, April 19, 2012

Edward Albee's adaptation of Englishman Giles Cooper's snake-in-the-garden black comedy, Everything in the Garden, is, perhaps, the most satisfying evening in the theater in a long time — not just at Theatre Southwest, which is having a banner sea... More »
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Wortham Theater Center

501 Texas Ave. Houston, TX 77002

713-237-1439

Description

Made in America

May 24

Gillian Welch

8:00 p.m. June 6

Romeo and Juliet

June 7

Mozart's Jupiter Symphony

October 6

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

November 5

2008 | Best Choreographer

2000 | Best Motorcycle Parking Lot

George Clooney: Hollywood Humanitarianism: To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, May 03, 2012

Houston Loves George Clooney: A Walk Down Clooney Lane

By Abby Koenig | Fri, April 27, 2012

Houston Metropolitan Dance Company: Signature Works

By Olivia Flores Alvarez | Thu, April 26, 2012

Houston Grand Opera's Mary Stuart: Hail, Joyce DiDonato!

By D.L. Groover | Mon, April 23, 2012

Indecent Proposal

By D. L. Groover | Thu, April 19, 2012