CATEGORY	Jones Hall
EVENT	Soc. For the Performing Arts - An Evening With David Sedaris
WEBSITE	www.spahouston.org
BEGIN	4/28/2010
END	4/28/2010
LOCATION	Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
NOTES	With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. 8:00 p.m.
PHONE	713.227.4SPA

CATEGORY	Houston Astros
EVENT	Houston Astros vs. Cincinnati Reds
WEBSITE	www.astros.com
BEGIN	4/27/2010
END	4/29/2010
LOCATION	Minute Maid Park, 501 Crawford @ Texas
NOTES	Major League Baseball. Game times at 7:05 p.m. 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	Hobby Center
EVENT	Theatre Under The Stars - Little House on the Prairie
WEBSITE	www.tuts.org
BEGIN	4/28/2010
END	5/9/2010
LOCATION	Hobby Center, 800 Bagby
NOTES	Laura Ingalls Wilder’s inspirational stories take on a brand new frontier in an uplifting new musical! Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura for 10 years in the much loved television series, continues her legacy by starring as Ma.
PHONE	713.558.TUTS

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