8:00 AM

2013 Fabergé Symposium: Fabergé: A Brilliant Vision

The House of Fabergé designed the renowned Imperial Easter Eggs for the Romanov family, as well as an array of objets d'art, luxurious gifts and practical items for the ...

10:00 AM

Art opening reception: Princes and Paupers: The Art of Jacques Callot

Jacques Callot, one of the most accomplished printmakers of the 17th century, revolutionized the technique of etching. Princes and Paupers focuses on two poles of Callot's work: His aristocratic ...

10:30 AM

A. D. Players presents Thumbelina

This performance run is the world premiere of an imaginative new musical adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale about a girl no bigger than her mother's thumb ...

11:30 AM

Asia Society Texas Center's Huffington Award Luncheon

This inaugural Huffington Award Luncheon recognizes recipients of the Roy M. Huffington Award for Contributions to International Understanding, named for the Houston oilman and former ambassador who played a leading ...

12:00 PM

Margaret Alkek Williams Crain Garden Performance Series: Mercury Orchestra Chamber Music

Mercury presents a trio, including violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord, performing chamber music by Corelli, Telemann and Vivaldi.

5:00 PM

Fresh Arts' Cultured Cocktails 2013

Raise a glass to the arts at Fresh Arts' Cultured Cocktails. This weekly happy hour allows guests to get up close and personal with members of the arts and creative ...

5:00 PM

Art opening reception: Gunilla Klingberg: New Installation

Rice University Art Gallery has commissioned Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg to create a site-specific installation. Drawing from a background in graphic design and sculpture, Klingberg creates her own three-dimensional, graphic ...

6:00 PM

The Women's Fund Rodeo Kick-Off Party

All cowboys and cowgirls are welcome to join and learn more about The Women's Fund and their Young Professional Organization. Guests will enjoy light bites and live music from ...

6:00 PM

Magnitud/e: A Literary Event in conjunction with Crónicas

This literary event, presented in conjunction with Crónicas, includes poets Marco Antonio Huerta and Sara Uribe (Cd. Victoria, Mexico); Lupe Méndez (Houston); John Pluecker (Houston); Minerva Reynosa (Monterrey ...

6:00 PM

Art opening reception: Fragments: Architecture of the Holocaust, An Artist’s Journey through the Camps

Artist Karl Koenig applied his photographic eye and used the remarkable effects of his gumoil photographic printing techniques to explore the architectural remains of 10 Nazi concentration camps. His style ...

6:30 PM

Artful Thursday Lecture: Kings and Artists in Golden Age Spain

The developing relationships between the kings of Spain and the artists who served them is a story that spans almost 200 years of the Habsburg monarchy. From the days of ...

6:30 PM

Lady Gaga in concert

All the Little Monsters will finally get another chance to see their idol in person when Lady Gaga makes a stop in Houston with Madeon and Lady Starlight for her ...

6:30 PM

Bayou City Outdoors Meet & Greet

Join Bayou City Outdoors (BCO) members and guests and socialize with old friends and meet new members. Enjoy the laid-back atmosphere of Mongoose Versus Cobra alongside craft beer and specialty ...

6:30 PM

Houston Tennis Association's and Tennis Express' "Game Set Match Gala and Tennis Fashion Show"

The second annual "Game Set Match Gala and Tennis Fashion Show," presented by the Houston Tennis Association and Tennis Express, will host former touring professional Todd Martin, ranked as high ...

7:00 PM

Museum of Cultural Arts Houston's "L’Art Nouveau Masquerade Ball - Peinture a Les Etoiles"

The Museum of Cultural Arts Houston's "L'Art Nouveau Masquerade Ball - Peinture a Les Etoiles" will feature pairings of renowned Houston artists with local celebrities, including CultureMap's social ...

7:30 PM

Opera in the Heights presents Verdi's Macbeth

The emotional impact of seeing and hearing Lady Macbeth goad her husband into bloody violence in order to amass power makes a compelling opera. A Scottish general returning from battle ...

7:30 PM

Alley Theatre presents Clybourne Park

The powerfully provocative Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award winner for Best Play and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, is the most talked-about show of the 2012 Broadway season and "the ...

7:30 PM

Theatre Under The Stars presents Camelot

Experience Camelot's "one brief shining moment" as Lerner and Loewe envisioned. Recount the enduring legend of King Arthur, Guenevere, Lancelot,and the Knights of the Round Table in an ...

7:30 PM

Theater: Girls Only – The Secret Comedy of Women

Girls Only  - The Secret Comedy of Women is an original comedy that celebrates the honor, truth, humor and silliness of the female spirit. With a two-woman cast and audiences full ...

7:30 PM

Main Street Theater presents Memory House By Kathleen Tolan

Sometimes human beings are so trapped between the hurt from the past and the utterly overwhelming nature of how to move forward into the future that we are frozen, locked ...

7:30 PM

Classical Theatre Company's Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

Ubu Roi is an avant-garde foray into the nature of greed and power. Ubu plots with his wife and fellow conspirators to kill the King of Poland, the broad satire ...

7:30 PM

Stages Repertory Theatre presents Wittenberg

Wittenberg imagines Dr. Faustus and Martin Luther as professors at Wittenberg University in 1517, where they're competing for the loyalty of their star student, Hamlet. As his tutors debate ...

7:30 PM

Texas Repertory Theatre presents The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

A legendary king and an incomparable queen meet for one last Winter Court for a battle that will determine the future of an empire. As the sun sets on his ...

7:30 PM

Alley Theatre presents The Mountaintop

Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop is a gripping re-imagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After delivering ...

8:00 PM

Houston Symphony presents "Mahler & Mendelssohn"

Mahler's Symphony No. 1 is filled with some of the composer's most brilliant and contrasting musical ideas. You'll be delighted as you hear folk melodies, a chilling ...

8:00 PM

University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance present Hit-Lit by Robert Wuhl

Actor/director/writer/producer Robert Wuhl's long stint in show business began at the University of Houston. Now, he's ready to return to his alma mater to begin ...

10:00 PM

Houston Symphony talk: "Büchner's Woyzck to Berg's Wozzeck" with Richard Spuler

In advance of the March presentations of Alban Berg's masterwork Wozzeck, the Houston Symphony will be hosting opportunities for audience and patrons to learn more about this ...