CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Soc. For the Performing Arts - Aszure Barton & Artists
WEBSITE	www.spahouston.org
BEGIN	4/23/2010
END	4/23/2010
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	Aszure Barton and Artists is an organization dedicated to the growth of artists and production of contemporary dance performance. Since its founding in 2002, the company has developed its activities as an international contemporary dance project based in New York City. 8:00 p.m.
PHONE	713.227.4SPA

CATEGORY	General
EVENT	Houston International Festival
WEBSITE	www.ifest.org
BEGIN	4/17/2010
END	4/25/2010
LOCATION	Downtown in Hermann Square and City Hall area
NOTES	Annual outdoor event, over the last two weekends in April, this year highlighting the Caribbean. iFest features diverse and celebrated music and dance groups from around the world. Seven international entertainment-themed zones feature performers from around the world, from Cajun, zydeco, blues and rock, to country, folk, Latin and reggae.
PHONE	713.654.8808

CATEGORY	Jones Hall
EVENT	Houston Symphony
WEBSITE	www.houstonsymphony.org
BEGIN	4/22/2010
END	4/25/2010
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 … Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. APRIL 22, 24, and 25.
PHONE	713.224.7575

CATEGORY	Houston Astros
EVENT	Houston Astros vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
WEBSITE	www.astros.com
BEGIN	4/23/2010
END	4/25/2010
LOCATION	Minute Maid Park, 501 Crawford @ Texas
NOTES	Major League Baseball. Game times FRI at 7:05, SAT at 6:05 and SUN at 1:05. Game times subject to change.
PHONE	1.800.ASTROS2

CATEGORY	Wortham Center
EVENT	Houston Grand Opera - The Queen of Spades
WEBSITE	www.houstongrandopera.org
BEGIN	4/16/2010
END	5/1/2010
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	One man’s obsession with a lucky card trick turns the fates of three in Tchaikovsky’s vibrant melodrama. Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine returns to HGO as the tormented Hermann, internationally renowned soprano Tatiana Monogarova makes her HGO debut as his beloved Lisa, and Vasily Ladyuk is the dashing Prince Yeletsky.
PHONE	713.228.OPERA

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Perspectives 169: Odili Donald Odita
WEBSITE	www.camh.org
BEGIN	2/12/2010
END	5/2/2010
LOCATION	Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose
NOTES	Widely recognized for his pulsating hues and meticulously painted wall and canvas works, Odili Donald Odita creates paintings that often function as narratives. Although devoid of any discernable figurative marks, the works tell of the nomadic journey of our ever-shifting global society: shapes and intersecting lines become metaphors for time and place while color evokes mood and impulse.
PHONE	713.284.8250

CATEGORY	Alley Theatre
EVENT	Alley Theatre - Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
WEBSITE	www.alleytheatre.org
BEGIN	4/16/2010
END	5/9/2010
LOCATION	Alley Theatre, 615 Texas
NOTES	This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 eccentric characters - played by a prodigiously talented cast of four - an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance.
PHONE	713.228.8421

CATEGORY	Stages Theatre
EVENT	Stages Theatre - Man From Nebraska
WEBSITE	www.stagestheatre.com
BEGIN	4/21/2010
END	5/16/2010
LOCATION	Stages Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway
NOTES	A masterpiece of subtlety and grace by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts (August, Osage County), this moving, funny play reveals yearning and deep emotion beneath the surface of seemingly tranquil lives.
PHONE	713.527.0123

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Réalist Performance
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	3/19/2010
END	8/8/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	The show will provide a unique chance to highlight the temporality of a lesser-known avant-garde movement. Actively engaged with other conceptual and performance-based ways of making art as they were emerging in the U.S. at that time, such as like Fluxus, Assemblage and Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme was a brief but influential moment in the history of modern art.
PHONE	713.525.9400

CATEGORY	Museums
EVENT	Steve Wolfe on Paper
WEBSITE	www.menil.org
BEGIN	4/2/2010
END	10/31/2010
LOCATION	Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
NOTES	This exhibition will focus on the artist’s works on paper, some of which are purely drawn, but most of which combine aspects of drawing, collage and printmaking. The artist’s transformation of common objects requires the viewer to re-think what they mean as such, placing emphasis on craft and the handmade to transform the common into the uncanny and the sublime.
PHONE	713.525.9400