Things to do in Houston this weekend – April 19th – 21st
Take it easy on Saturday, enjoy the weather.
FRIDAY – APRIL 19th
Tim Robinson Comedy Show @ Bayou Music Center @ 7:30PM See Tim and Zach in never seen before sketches, along with other special guest appearances.
‘Chinese Folktales: Wit and Wisdom of the Ancestors’ Dance Show @ Miller Outdoor Theatre @ 8:15PM Featuring 40 dancers,10 actors, film, music and eye-popping costumes, this production is a unique blend of theatre and dance brings to life classic Chinese stories about people, animals, and mythical creatures.
‘Don Giovanni’ Opera @ Wortham Theater @ 7:30PM See the Spanish antihero everyone loves to hate in director Kasper Holten’s brilliant and seductive tragicomedy production.
Sounds of the City Concert @ Market Square Park @ 5PM Grab food from your favorite neighborhood eatery and enjoy live music from a new local Houston artist.
Larry Fleet @ House of Blues @ 7PM
Soft Kill @ White Oak Music Hall @ 7PM With Gumm
Sarah and The Sundays @ Warehouse Live @ 6:30PM
Afroman @ Last Concert Cafe @ 7PM
The Spill Canvas @ Scout Bar @ 7PM
SATURDAY – APRIL 20th
Dynamo vs Austin FC @ Shell Energy Stadium @ 7:30PM
Ongoing – Saturday Stargazing @ George Observatory in Needville
Ongoing – Farmers Market @ Market Square Park @ 9AM This spring, enjoy Houston’s best vendors in the very heart of downtown!
Earth Day & Houston Public Works’ Water Festival @ Discovery Green @ 12PM This year’s Earth Day will be about using art to engage people and urge them to action!
Kids Festival @ The Grand Opera House @ 10AM Enjoy three blocks of artful and creative non-stop fun for kids and their parents.
Noche Caliente Festival @ Miller Outdoor Theatre @ 8:15PM “Noche Caliente” (Hot Night) is an incredible evening of great music entertainment that celebrates the different cultures of the Hispanic community.
Houston Country, Folk, & Blues @ Houston Community College – Katy @ 11AM Experience 6 major concerts, artists & crafters, gourmet food trucks, craft beer & wine!
Midtown Wine Festival @ Midtown Park @ 1:30PM Come treat yourself to an afternoon of international and local wine, music, and food!
Saint Arnold Pub Crawl @ EaDo @ 2PM The World Famous Saint Arnold Pub Crawl is heading back to EaDo! Start between 2:00 and 3:00 at select spots in the area!
Candlelight: A Tribute to Coldplay in Concert @ Lone Star Flight Museum @ 7PM / 9:15PM Hear Coldplay’s greatest hits in classical interpretation!
‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ Screening @ MFAH @ 8PM
Adam Ant @ Bayou Music Center @ 8PM With The English Beat
Laufey @ 713 Music Hall @ 8PM With Grace Enger
Cumbiatron: The Cumbia Rave @ House of Blues @ 9PM
Lee Brice @ White Oak Music Hall @ 6PM
Dirty Loops @ White Oak Music Hall @ 8PM
Broadway Rave @ White Oak Music Hall @ 9PM)
Bruce Robison + John Fullbright @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM With Summer Dean
Space Laces @ Stereo Live @ 10PM
Decapitated @ Warehouse Live @ 6:30PM
SUNDAY – APRIL 21st
Walk for the WIld 5K @ Houston Zoo @ 7AM Walk through the grounds and help power the Houston Zoo’s wildlife-saving efforts.
Family Zone @ MFAH @ 1PM Families are invited to join a teaching artist for an afternoon in the galleries and the studio.
Spring Festival @ MFAH @ 1PM The MFAH celebrates all things Spring with free admission, tasty bites from local vendors, creative stations, kid-friendly activities, and much more!
Roy Wood Jr. Stand Up @ House of Blues @ 8PM
‘Swan Lake’ Ballet @ Wortham Center @ 2PM / 6PM ‘Swan Lake,’ the ballet of all ballets, will be performed one night only as a part of the World Ballet Series.
‘Don Giovanni’ Opera @ Wortham Theater @ 2PM See the Spanish antihero everyone loves to hate in director Kasper Holten’s brilliant and seductive tragicomedy production.
Jazzy Sundays @ Buffalo Bayou Park @ 5PM Featuring Rainel Joubert & Lolade
Catterina & Kate Stephenson @ White Oak Music Hall @ 6PM With Micah Edwards
Low Cut Connie @ The Heights Theater @ 8PM With Fantastic Cat
Alborosie @ Last Concert Cafe @ 8PM
All Weekend
THURSDAY & FRIDAY – Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to The Beatles @ Jones Hall @ 7:30PM Hear over two dozen of The Beatles’ greatest hits, transcribed note-for-note and performed as originally recorded, with four musicians who look and sound just like the original Fab Four!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY – Planet Earth Celebration @ Space Center Houston Enjoy exclusive activities, activations and explore boundless possibilities for the future of our planet!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY – Disney’s ‘Encanto’ in Concert @ Jones Hall The Academy Award-winning film ‘Encanto’ comes to life like never before, with the Houston Symphony performing the score live!
All weekend – Michael Blackson Stand Up @ Houston Improv
All weekend – Circus Vazquez @ Greenspoint Mall This circus show presents unique dance and acrobatic performances from an array of internationally renowned stars!
All weekend – ‘The Cher Show’ Musical @ The Hobby Center ‘The Cher Show’ is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, and countless EGOT awards, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have audiences dancing in the aisles!
All weekend – ‘Refer Madness’ Musical @ The Garden Theatre Based on the cult-classic satire musical, The Garden Theatre’s newest production is a side-splitting comedy with one-of-a-kind catchy repertoire.
All weekend – ‘Ruthless!’ Musical @ Art Factory LAST CHANCE – Full of Broadway spoof, twists and turns, and ridiculous conventions, ‘Ruthless! The Musical’ humorously gives us a glimpse into the competitive nature of show business.
All weekend – ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’ Musical @ Crighton Theatre LAST CHANCE – See the story of Buddy Holly’s three year journey towards becoming one of the top recording artists in the world.
All weekend – ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ Play @ The George Theatre This story about a unique and unlikely friendship between a Jewsih woman and a Black man in 1940s in Georgia reminds us of the common humanity and the value of life.
All weekend – ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Play @ Alvin College Theatre In this powerful adaptation, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of the times.
All weekend – ‘Jane Eyre’ Play @ Alley Theatre Adapted by Elizabeth Williamson from the beloved classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, this play follows the heroine who struggles for freedom and fulfillment on her own terms.
All weekend – ‘Lady Sunsan’ Play @ Stageworks Theater Jane Austen’s comic novella about a young widow’s brilliant scheming in turn-of-the-century English society comes to life in Rob Urbinati’s delightfully witty stage adaptation.
All weekend – ‘Cleansed’ Play @ MATCH From the controversial playwright of the Theatre of Extremes Sarah Kane came a brutal, yet triumphant fable about totalitarianism and controlled experiments that hauntingly reminds viewers of the present day.
All weekend – ‘King Charles III: Alternate History’ Play @ MATCH With honesty and humility, the play presents an alternate history of the ascension of Prince Charles to the throne of the United Kingdom.
Ongoing Special Events and Museum Exhibitions
Ongoing – French Cultures Festival LAST CHANCE – The festival unites French speakers, learners, and the wider Francophone community to showcase the diversity of French cultures. Check the website for specific events throughout the city.
Ongoing – ‘Jurassic World’ Exhibition @ Katy Mills The limited-time globally sold-out exhibition immerses audiences of all ages in scenes inspired by the beloved film. Discover the science of jurassic world and walk in the land of jurassic giants, closer than ever before!
Ongoing – Dinosaurs @ Houston Zoo Trek through a lush forest trail to see life-sized animatronic creatures, including the fan favorite T-rex, Brachiosaurus, Edmontonia, and more!
Ongoing – Sloomoo Exhibition @ Marq E Entertainment Center Immerse yourself in the joy of sensory play with Sloomoo Institute’s colorful world of never-ending, hand-crafted slime, yummy scents, and soothing ASMR delights.
Ongoing – Winter Colorland @ Houston Color Factory Enjoy Color Factory's glimmering winter wonderland as they have decked out its immersive exhibition rooms for the winter season.
Ongoing – ‘Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism’ Exhibition @ MFAH The exhibition presents, for the first time in the United States, the origins and legacy of fauvism through paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Henri Matisse and André Derain.
Ongoing – ‘Multiplicity: Blackness In Contemporary American Collage’ Exhibition @ MFAH Collage works by multiple generations of living artists examine concepts such as cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, historical memory, and notions of beauty and power.
Ongoing – ‘Crowning the North: Silver Treasures from Bergen, Norway’ Exhibition @ MFAH Featuring over 200 objects, this exhibition provides an exceptional look at Nordic history and aesthetics across centuries as Bergen stood at the intersection of global trade, taste, and fashion.
Ongoing – ‘Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence’ Exhibition @ MFAH Wiley’s monumental, large-scale paintings of Black and Brown individuals confront and challenge the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice.
Ongoing – ‘Ruth Asawa Through Line’ Exhibition @ Menil The exhibition presents drawings, collages, watercolors, and sketchbooks showing the breadth of Ruth Asawa’s innovative and profound practice.
Ongoing – ‘Janet Sobel: All-Over’ Exhibition @ Menil See the pioneering work of Janet Sobel and her ‘All-Over’ abstract expressionist painting technique which inspired generations of artists, including Jackson Pollock.
Ongoing – ‘Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign Us’ Exhibition @ Moody Center for the Arts Kahraman’s first solo exhibition features works informed by the artist’s Iraqi-Kurdish heritage and experience as a refugee while highlighting her research-driven practice.
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