William Betts is the new interim executive director at DiverseWorks

Diane Barber will leave DiverseWorks at the end of September

"City Council Meeting" by Aaron Landsman

Zoe Scofield in "A Crack in Everything"

Kim Stoilis of Bayou City Arts Festival

Bayou City Arts Festival

Artists in a production of "Cabaret" at the Dallas Theater Center

A scene from The Alley Theatre's production of "Wonderland"

The Alley Theatre

Wyly Theater in Dallas

"In "Witness to War" you feel you've entered the inner landscape of a great mindwho has witnessed too much. But what he's seen must be shared."

George Gittoes

"Witness to War"

"Witness to War"

"Witness to War: George Gittoes"

Come Fly Away brings together the music of Frank Sinatra and the creative visionof Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp. The show hits the Hobby Center April 10-15,2012 as part of the Gexa Energy Broadway at the Hobby Center 2011-2012 season.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, "Life Is Living Festival: Chicago"

Main Street Theater is looking forward to the most ambitious project in its36-year history: Tom Stoppard’s epic trilogy, The Coast of Utopia.

Jermaine Spivey and Martin Schmidt of Matmos in Ayman Harper's The LID atDiverseWorks Jan. 13-14, 2012

Tom Stoppard's "Utopia" trilogy won seven Tony Awards for its New Yorkproduction. Now Houston will become the first U.S. city outside of the Big Appleto stage all three productions.

The Wonderettes are getting a sequel.

Ensemble has a play about the Lotto's "luck."

Main Street will put on one about a beloved quarterback who's committed a"senseless crime." Not that it's based on anyone in real life.

Backstage tours at The Alley Theatre

Society for the Performing Arts brings The Flying Karamazov Brothers, minglingcomedy, acrobatics, juggling, dancing and music.

There's many sides to Da Camera. At the open house, they bring on the jazz.

At the Alley Theatre, guests can meet-and-greet with costumed performers, watcha stage combat demo and take a backstage tour.

Houston Ballet

End the day with a bang. At Jones Hall at 4 p.m. the Houston Symphony closes thefestivities.

Dominic Walsh Dance

Houston Grand Opera

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Continuum performance artist Jonatan Lopez

"Asweep" by Continuum member Emily Sloan

By Continuum member Jonatan Lopez, "Revolution"

Karol Bennett conducting High School Ahead Academy students

Educator Rickey Polidore and Walter Smith, curriculum manager for the ElementaryFine Arts

From The Menil Collection exhibit, "The Whole World was Watching," Dan Budnik's"Waiting for the Bus"

Joseph Dixon of D-Young Artists Ensemble

NobleMotion Dance artist Seth McPhail in "Splitting Night: An Evening of Danceand Light"

NobleMotion dancers are covered in lights.

Artists Brittany Thetford, Jared Doster, Jesus Acosta and Shohei Iwahama ofNobleMotion

From Jacob's Pillow, Kidd Pivot in "Dark Matters"

NobleMotion's Brittany Thetford, Brit Wallis, Jesus Acosta and Shohei Iwahama

UH Jazz Quartet played a number of sets during the open house the FIne ArtsQuadrangle

A demonstration of Chuck Ivy's video/electronic project kept people entertainedin between tours and performances in the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for theArts.

Glass Mountain's fiction editor Bret Forsberg read his latest short story to acrowd outside the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

Tour guides let groups into the Wortham Theatre for a behind the scenes look atthe stage.

Dasha Zhukova

Houston panelists joined their Moscow counterparts in an international videoteleconference to tout the upcoming FotoFest Portfolio Review Russia.

Yuja Wang

WindSync

Apollo Chamber Players

Sharon Isbin and Mark O'Connor

Clarinetist Nathan Williams

I wouldn’t think of missing is "The Tiger Lillies" at the Wortham on Nov. 4,presented by the Society for the Performing Arts and DiverseWorks Art Space.

It’s with great anticipation that I imagine what "Splitting Night," an entireevening of collaborative pieces by NobleMotion Dance and Choate, will offer onAug. 26 through Sept. 3 at Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex.

A production I am particularly eager to see is the Houston Grand Opera'sproduction of Jürgen Flimm and Robert Israel’s version of Ludwig van Beethoven’s"Fidelio," which runs Oct. 28 through November at the Brown Theater in theWortham.

Jaemi Blair Loeb and Richard Ford

Ashley Browne and Andy Cook in Larry Keigwin's "Air"

Seán Patrick Judge and Paul Locklear in The Catastrophic Theatre's production ofMickle Maher's The Strangerer

Houston Ballet will debut at The Joyce Theater in New York City on Oct. 11-16with a program designed to showcase the company’s contemporary repertoire,featuring two pieces commissioned especially for Houston Ballet.

Nicholas Leschke, shown here with Mireille Hassenboehler, has moved on fromHouston Ballet to University of Houston to study civil engineering.

Paola Georgudis is a rising presence on Houston's dance scene.

Danielle Rowe as the Lilac Fairy and artists of the Houston Ballet in TheSleeping Beauty, choreographed by Ben Stevenson

Hana Sakai and Domenico Luciano in Dominic Walsh's Wolfgant

"Riverdance"

"Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles"

"Dewberry Patch"

Window at Tejas Antiques in Navasota, with painting "The Cotton Walk" by MollyBee Collins resting on chair

Painting over doorway, "Grandma's Hands" by Molly Bee

"Mission in New Mexico" by Leon Collins

Leon with his "Madame Freeman," the first African-Americn business woman inNavasota, painted on hand-hooked rug made by Pat Shoemake

"The Cotton Walk" by Molly Bee Collins

Leon's "As I Remember," with subjects Leon's great-great-grandmother (Big Mama)and her sister praying in the back yard

"The Cotton Walk," detail

Leon and Molly Bee's "Homestead Sunday," with Leon's work table below and BigMama's chair on the right

"Poak Salad" by Molly Bee

"Another Sweet Song," which Molly Bee and Leon painted together

Previous submission by Sue Liska

Retablo by Jean King

Finished work by Jan Avery

Dia de los Muerto Gala