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Here are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend

Comedian Nikki Glaser gets down and dirty for one night this weekend.

Houstonians everywhere are preparing for Easter weekend, with Good Friday observances and last-minute brunch plans on Sunday (check out our suggestions). We've rounded up a basket of events for the whole family — check it out here.

Other fun includes a college hoops party downtown, a film showcase, a time-honored dance festival, and a visit by an edgy national comedian.

Happy Easter — here are your best bets for the weekend.

Thursday, April 14

Inspire Film Festival Kickoff Event
Inspire Film Festival will host a kickoff event to launch its official move from The Woodlands to Houston. The evening will feature a screening of The Interpreters, an award-winning documentary about the journey of Afghan and Iraqi interpreters - who played a key role in enabling communication between locals and U.S. troops - as they attempt to escape the violence of the region as American involvement decreases. 6 pm.

Houston International Dance Coalition presents Dance Salad Festival
From Thursday through Saturday, The Houston International Dance Coalition will present the Dance Salad Festival, featuring six well-known dance companies. The companies will include Hofesh Shechter Company from London; Semperoper Ballett Dresden from Germany; Royal Danish Ballet’s Kammerballetten from Denmark; Royal Ballet of Flanders from Belgium; Dunia Dance Theatre from Zimbabwe and Belgium; and Laboration Art Company from France. 7 pm.

Stages presents You Are Cordially Invited to Sit-In
Houston, Texas, 1960. It’s the peak of youth in the lives of four Black college freshman. Some are ready for fun, some for success, some for love, and some just want to pledge and party, and in Third Ward they have all of the potential in the world — a segregated world. Set to the love songs, dance hits, and revolutionary tunes of the ’60s-’70s, this new musical is inspired by the real story of Houston’s first sit-in that led to the city’s desegregation. Through Sunday, May 22. 7:30 pm (8 pm Friday; 2:30 and 8 pm Saturday; 2:30 and 7:30 pm Sunday).

Friday, April 15

Disney on Ice: Mickey's Search Party
Mickey Mouse and his friends will be on hand for this adventure, filled with world-class skating, high-flying acrobatics, and unexpected stunts. They will follow Captain Hook’s treasure map and look for clues in the search for Tinker Bell in immersive, fantastic worlds. Audiences can explore the colorful spirit realm of Coco with Miguel, sail away with Moana, see Belle in the sky, and sing-along with Elsa in the icy world of Frozen. 10:30 am, 2:30 and 7:30 pm (11 am, 3 and 7 pm Saturday; 1 and 5 pm Sunday).

NCAA Final Four Fan Jam Truck Roll-In
The 2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four Houston Local Organizing Committee (HLOC) will unveil the Fan Jam Truck at Discovery Green. The interactive pop-up truck arrives in Houston to pass the Men’s Final Four host city torch from New Orleans to Houston for the 2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four Division I basketball tournament. Fan Jam Truck activities include basketball goals, photo opportunities with the Men’s Final Four trophy, Pop-A-Shots, giveaways, mascot appearances, a reading nook, and more. Noon.

Fight Club Houston Presents Fight Fest I
Things will most likely get crazy as hell at his free-for-all of live music and intense fisticuffs, to be held over at Higher Grounds. Plenty of bands, MCs and DJs will be on the premises: Vanilla Guerillaz, The Half Pipes, Barely a Team, Timmo!, Tony Lxve, etc. As for the fights, they will be served up according to weight and tough man. If the sight of violence is too much for you, there will be vendors and food trucks around to peruse. 8 pm.

Houston Symphony presents Beethoven’s Eroica & Liszt
Audiences can experience the power and grandeur of Beethoven’s immortal Eroica Symphony, led by one of today’s biggest young conducting stars, Rafael Payare. Liszt is synonymous with finger-flying piano fireworks, and his dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2 is in good hands with returning favorite Jean-Yves Thibaudet. The concerts open with Sofia Gubaidulina’s whimsical Fairy Tale Poem, inspired by the Czech fairy tale, “The Little Chalk.” The Saturday performance will be available to livestream. 8 pm.

Saturday, April 16

National Eggs Benedict Day at The Toasted Yolk Cafe
Apparently, Saturday is National Eggs Benedict Day, and all the Toasted Yolk Cafe locations in and around Houston want everybody to know they'll be coming hard with the Eggs Benedict on this day. The neighborhood eatery’s menu features a delicious line-up of eggs Benedicts — known famously at Toasted Yolk as Arnolds — that offer a variety of flavor profiles and ingredients to satisfy any craving. The cafe will also give away a $100 gift card to three lucky guests. 7 am.

Karbach Brewing presents Love Street Music Fest
Love Street Music Fest is back! Mt. Joy, Living Colour, Nané, and Moving Panoramas will rock the biergarten and it will be a show you won't want to miss. This will also be a perfect time to sample all the Love Street brews (including the new Love Street Citrus) Karbach Brewing will be ready to pour. (We're actually bigger fans of their Rodeo Clown line of IPAs — yes, we're those kinds of beer drinkers. Sorry.) 3 pm.

Nikki Glaser: One Night with Nikki Glaser
Nikki Glaser is a comic who isn't afraid to get a little taboo in her stand-up. After all, she had a Comedy Central series, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, where Glaser and some of comedy’s funniest voices joked, learned, and shared their personal stories about sex, relationships, and other taboo topics. She also put a lot of her business out in the streets with her 2019 Netflix special Banging'. Expect her to get more down and dirty when she performs here this weekend. 7 pm.

Kem and Babyface in concert
R&B titans Kem and Babyface hit the road together again to solidify themselves in the hearts of many. Joining the two musicians is the queen of daytime and Emmy-winning TV host/comedian/actress Sherri Shepherd, who will serve as host. Kem is touring in support of his 2020 album, Love Always Wins. (He also has an upcoming EP in the works.) Babyface has released 10 albums in his career, including 2015's Return of the Tender Lover. 8 pm.

Sunday, April 17

Easter Art Market
After you're done having your yearly Easter brunch with the fam, head to this art market Re:HAB Bar On The Bayou will be hosting. There will be plenty of local artists and vendors on hand. Crawler Trawler will provide the food, making sure crawfish will be on deck throughout the day. And let's not forget the live music from The Zydeco Dots. Also, we're pretty sure some Easter eggs will be hidden here and there. Noon.

Punk Rock Garage Sale at Brash Brewing
We're glad to see the garage sale Insomnia Gallery and Deep End Records put together every month is still going strong. Skip those big box retailers and head to the Punk Rock Garage Sale instead for a true chance to score. More than 24 individual vendors will fill up Brash Brewing inside and out, selling everything cool: music, art, toys, books, comics, clothing, music gear, and crazy handmade offerings. 1 pm.

Alley Theatre presents Dead Man's Cell Phone
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man. So begins this wildly imaginative comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House). It's an off-the-wall play about the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Through Sunday, May 8. 2:30 and 7:30 pm.

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Ye, aka Kanye West, will bring his Ye Live Concert Tour to Reliant Stadium in Houston on October 31.

There’s a lot of strange, crazy stuff that’ll be popping off this Halloween/Dia de los Muertos weekend, including parties at local restaurants and bars. But perhaps the craziest thing that’ll be happening is that two of the controversial, problematic music icons of all time – Ye and Morrissey – will be in Houston to perform. Expect a lot of unapologetic diehards at both shows.

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Ye, aka Kanye West, will bring his Ye Live Concert Tour to Reliant Stadium in Houston on October 31.

There are other musical things going on this weekend, from a jazz jam at POST Houston to a Houston Symphony salute to Dolly Parton to a chance for folks to ease on down the road at Smart Financial Centre.

Thursday, October 29

The Woodlands Resort and The Woodlands PRIDE present Dinner, Drag and Dancing
The Woodlands Resort and The Woodlands PRIDE will kick off pride weekend with Dinner, Drag and Dancing. Harrison’s will transform into a ‘90s-inspired ballroom, complete with feel-good entertainment, live drag performances (featuring Nadine Hughes, Sasha Frost, Chevelle Brooks, and Violet Brooks), handcrafted cocktails, and elevated bites. Following the performances, DJ Furo will play an upbeat mix of chart-topping hits. 6 pm.

Madison Arts and POST Houston present Jazz Jam on the Docks
This vibrant, immersive evening celebrates Houston's rich jazz community by gathering some of the city's finest jazz musicians to create spontaneous musical moments that can only be experienced live. Set along the docks at POST, the evening blends artistry, culture, and connection in one of the city's most dynamic creative spaces. 7 pm.

Thee Sinseers in concert
Thee Sinseers make what's widely known as Chicano soul — a sound born in East Los Angeles in the 1960s as a distinctly Mexican American answer to Black R&B and soul, carried today through lowrider cruises, quinceañeras, and backyard parties across the neighborhood. It's the sound of a community that took the doo-wop and soul of the era and made it its own. The group are touring in support of their new album Love Stories. 8 pm.

Friday, October 30

The Hobby Center presents Live at the Founder's Club: Surrender - The Timeless Experience of the Music of India
Led by Grammy-winning artist Falu, this two-night immersive musical journey explores sound as expression, ritual, and connection. The performance moves through melody, rhythm, and emotion with a program rooted in both heritage and improvisation. Vedic chants, classical ragas, ecstatic kirtan, and the expressive beauty of thumri come together in a rich soundscape, shaped by voice and instruments ranging from sarangi and harmonium to violin. 7:30 pm.

Houston Symphony presents "Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony"
This multimedia experience features Parton on screen, leading audiences in a visual-musical journey of her songs, her life, and her stories. Accompanied by guest vocalists and musicians, audiences will hear new, innovative orchestrations of her hit songs, including “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and “I Will Always Love You,” in addition to her personal favorites and an as-yet unreleased selection from her upcoming Broadway musical. 7:30 pm (2 pm Sunday).

University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance presents Rumors
Chris and Ken Gorman arrive at a fancy dinner party for their friend, NYC deputy mayor Charley Brock. They discover that Charley has had an accident involving a shotgun and his earlobe. Hilarity ensues as they attempt to cover up the facts once friends begin to arrive. Neil Simon’s Rumors is a charming farce with lots of gags, twists, zingers, and zanies, but it also borrows from Simon’s life experience to depict the challenges, as well as the comforts, of married life. Through Sunday, November 8. 7:30 pm (2 pm Sunday).

Women+ on the Edge of Democracy
This play explores democracy through theatre, conversation, and community. The groundbreaking initiative has commissioned 36 acclaimed women+ playwrights to write 10-minute plays on the state of democracy in America. This event will include readings from 4th Wall Theatre Company (featuring Jennifer Dean), Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company, Dirt Dogs Theatre Co., and The Ensemble Theatre. 7:30 pm.

Saturday, October 31

Wings Over Houston Airshow
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the NASA “Freedom 250” F-5s will headline the two-day, 42nd CAF Wings Over Houston Airshow. The Freedom 250 team, a four-jet formation celebrating America’s 250th birthday, makes its Wings Over Houston debut. This year’s show also features a Vietnam Heritage tribute with three rare warbirds, the Legends & Heroes tent, and a drive-in style show. 8 am.

The Children's Heart Foundation presents Houston Congenital Heart Walk
The Congenital Heart Walk brings together walkers, teams, sponsors, and volunteers to help fund research that improves how congenital heart defects are diagnosed, treated, and prevented. The work directly supports children born with heart conditions and gives families hope for healthier futures. The event will feature other activities, entertainment, and updates on the latest heart research. 8:30 am.

Ghana Brain Tumor Foundation presents Hope & Healing: Bridging the Gap in Brain Cancer Care Gala
As part of its ongoing fundraising and awareness efforts, Ghana Brain Tumor Foundation will host its 3rd Annual “Hope & Healing: Bridging the Gap in Brain Cancer Care” Gala. The evening will bring together survivors, advocates, medical professionals, and community leaders for a night of storytelling, fundraising, and impact. Proceeds from the event will directly support brain tumor surgeries and critical care initiatives for underserved patients. 6 pm.

Houston Grand Opera presents Susannah
Susannah launches HGO’s 2026-27 season, continuing the company’s centenary celebration of opera icon Carlisle Floyd. Set in the hills of Tennessee and inspired by Floyd’s own roots as a minister’s son, the story follows Susannah, a young woman whose life is shattered after she’s seen bathing in a creek by church elders, leading to cruel gossip, judgment, and finally, her harrowing assault. Soprano Angel Blue, an international sensation, makes her role debut as Susannah. Through November 8. 7:30 pm.

Sunday, November 1

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" opening day
Presenting nearly 50 watercolors by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), alongside a selection of his oils, drawings, and prints, "Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" explores how the artist grew as a watercolorist. With material ranging from a childhood drawing to his final canvas, the exhibition follows the major chapters in his career and explores the various environments - ecological, artistic, social, and economic - that shaped his enduring work in watercolor. Through Sunday, February 7. 12:30 pm.

Christ Church Cathedral presents All Saints Choral Evensong
Experience a 500-year-old tradition of sung evening prayer. Christ Church Cathedral presents Choral Evensong for All Saints, led by the Cathedral Choir - its flagship ensemble of volunteer and professional singers, which has regularly served as choir-in-residence at Salisbury and Canterbury Cathedrals in England. Following the service, stay for a reception and fellowship with the Cathedral community. 5 pm.

Smart Financial Centre presents The Wiz
This groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway — from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and finger-snapping '70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world. Audiences get to enjoy the epic grooves of such timeless hits as “Ease on Down the Road,” which became the show’s break-out single, and the bonafide classic “Home.” 6 pm.

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