CATEGORY	Reliant Park
EVENT	Offshore Technology Conference
WEBSITE	www.otcnet.org
BEGIN	5/3/2010
END	5/6/2010
LOCATION	Reliant Park, South Loop 610 @ Kirby exit
NOTES	The Offshore Technology Conference is the world’s foremost event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection. OTC is held annually at Reliant Center in Houston.
PHONE	832.667.1400

CATEGORY	Houston Astros
EVENT	Houston Astros vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
WEBSITE	www.astros.com
BEGIN	5/3/2010
END	5/6/2010
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	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	Wortham Center
EVENT	Houston Grand Opera - Xerxes
WEBSITE	www.houstongrandopera.org
BEGIN	4/30/2010
END	5/14/2010
LOCATION	Wortham Center, 501 Texas
NOTES	One of Handel’s most popular operas, Xerxes is a feast for the ears, and the eyes in this classic eighteenth-century production. A mad entanglement of love stories, the opera follows the tyrannical and flamboyant Xerxes (Susan Graham) in his quest for Romilda (Laura Claycomb), who is beloved by his very own brother Arsamene, sung by David Daniels.
PHONE	713.228.OPERA

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