The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1988 Page: 14 of 20
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14 Friday, April 22,1988 THRESHER Fine Arts
Ziggy Marley plays in his dad's shadow at Xcess
FRIDAY
•The All New Antologia De La
Zarzuela, a combination of Spanish
stage vignettes, songs, dances and
folklore will be performed in the
Music Hall tonight and tomorrow at 8
p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Call 526-1709 for more information.
•Closed System plays The Red
Lion Pub (7315 Main) tonight. Call
795-5000 for information.
•Paul Revere and the Raiders
rocks tonight at Rockefeller's (3620
Washington). Call 861 -9365 for more
information.
•The University of Houston
Drama Department presents Jean
Anouilh's Ring Round The Moon
tonight and tomorro w in the Wortham
Theatre on campus. Tickets are $4 for
students and the show starts at 8 p.m.
Call 749-3450 for reservations.
•The Company Onstage (536
Westbury Square) opens it produc-
tion of Clifford Odets' The Flowering
Peach tonight at 8 p.m.
SATURDAY
•Stages (3201 Allen Parkway)
opens Carnal Knowledge tonight at 8
p.m.
•Rockefeller's presents Mont-
gomery, Plant and Stritch playing
your favorite Broadway songs.
SUNDAY
•The Comedy Workshop (2105
San Felipe) presents Ramblonde II
tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Call
524-7333 for more information.
MONDAY
•Michael Brecker, "the best post-
Chris Kinkade and Richard Johnson star in Carnal Knowledge at Stages.
COMING UP
by John Montag
Coltrane tenor man," plays tonight at what we needed.
Rockefeller's.
•Happy Bass birthday, Beth Lon-
vick, from Jen and Montag.
TUESDAY
•Big River: The Adventure of
Huckleberry Finn opens tonight at 8
p.m. in Jones Hall, produced by The
Society for the Performing Arts.
Performances continue Wednesday,
April 27 through S aturday, April 30 at
8 p.m., Sunday, May 1 at 7 p.m. and
matinees on S aturday and Sunday at 2
p.m. Call 530-3600 for more informa-
tion.
•Rockefeller's presents The
Nighthawks, "DC's version of the
Fabulous Thunderbirds." Great, just
WEDNESDAY
•Ziggy Marley plays Xcess (5134
Richmond Avenue) tonight. Call
552-1505 for more information.
THURSDAY
•Main Street Theater (2540
Times Boulevard) opens Pride and
Prejudice tonight at 8 p.m. Call 524-
6707 for more information.
•The Houston Grand Opera
opens Wagner's epic Tannhauser
tonight at 7 p.m. in the Wortham
Center's Brown Theater.
•Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials
will perform tonight at Club Hey Hey
(3517 Washington).
•The Red Lion Pub presents
Linda Lowe singing original folk
music.
•Theatre Under the Stars and
the Bel Air Theatre (4020 Bellaire)
present a special screening of Baby
Boom, starring Diane Keaton and
Sam Shepard, tonight at 8 p.m. Ad-
mission is only $ 1 and "visibly expec-
tant" mothers get in free.
ONGOING
•The Alley Theatre runs its pro-
duction of A Class "C" Trial in
Yokohama through May 8. A Shayna
Maide I also runs through May 8. Call
228-8421 for more information.
•The Houston Grand Opera
performs Massenet's Manon April
24,27 and 30 and May 3,6,8 and 11.
They perform Wagner's epic
Tannhauser May 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13.
Call 546-0246 for more information.
•Main Street Theater runs Pride
and Prejudice Thursdays through
Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4
p.m. through May 22. Call 524-6707
for more information.
•Radio Music Theatre (2623
Colquitt) is playing I Love You But
You' re Sitting OnMy Cat each Friday
and Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., with
an additional performance at 10:50
p.m. on Saturday. Hotter than Hous-
ton! continues to play Thursday
nights at 8:30 p.m.
•Stages Repertory Theatre runs
Little Lulu in a Tight Orange Dress
through May 7 in their Repertory
Theatre. Carnal Knowledge plays
through May 28. Psycho Beach Party
and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom play
each Friday and Saturday night at 10
p.m. Call 52-STAGE for more infor-
mation.
•The Comedy Workshop (2105
San Felipe) performs Cheaper Than
Therapy every Friday and Saturday,
reservations necessary. Call 524-
7333 for more information.
•The Museum of Fine Arts con-
tinues Dressed to Celebrate: Evening
Wear in the Twentieth Century
through May 8. Call 526-1181 for
more information.
•The Contemporary Arts
Museum runs their exhibit JoanNel-
son; Paintings through June 5. Call
526-0773 for more information.
•The O'Kane Gallery (One
Main Street) is exhibiting a mixed
media collection from the High
School for the Performing and Visual
Arts through May 6. Call 221-8042
for more information.
•The Menil Collection's
Richmond Hall (1416 Richmond) is
hosting Texas Art through May 15.
•The Houston Art Dealers As-
sociation exhibit, Houston '88, "pro-
viding an overview of the quality and
diversity of the 'Houston school'
today," runs through May 12 in the
1600 Smith lobby gallery.
•The Watermelon Flats Show
exhibits work of Houston artists
through May 29. The show is held on
the north bank of Buffalo Bayou be-
tween Preston St. and Sabine St. in
downtown Houston.
•The Company Onstage (536
Westbury Square) presents Clifford
Odets' The Flowering Peach every
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. through
May 28. Call 726-1219 for more in-
formation.
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Wucker, Michele. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1988, newspaper, April 22, 1988; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245694/m1/14/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.