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Leaving Iowa - A Hilarious Comedy from A.
D. Players. A story for
everyone who has ever revisited memories of youth,
Leaving Iowa follows Don, a middle-aged man who returns
home to Iowa in search of a final resting place for his
father's ashes. As he travels across the state searching
for the perfect place to scatter the ashes, memories of
childhood road trips with his father resurface, and he
is finally able to come to peace with his past and
present. This hilarious comedy feature 5 actors playing
a variety of roles. Grace Theatre
Dates Available: Friday, July 09 @ 8:00
PM Saturday, July 10 @ 8:00 PM Sunday, July 11 @
2:30 PM FULL PRICE : $15.00 -
$36.00OUR PRICE : FREE - $18.00
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 Vaud E. Ville's: Shenanigans - Return to
the Golden Age of Vaudeville
Frenetic Theatre :
Houston
Return to theatre's golden age of
early 19th century Vaudeville with traditional audience
participation comedy skits, dramatic shorts, song and
dance routines; family friendly fun!
Dates Available:
Friday, July 16 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 17 @
8:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $20.00
OUR PRICE : $10.00
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 Four French Films: Le combat dans l 'ile
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
Clement
(Jean-LouisTrintignant) has abandoned his middle-class
family to join a radical right-wing terrorist group.
When his mentor (Pierre Asso) betrays him as the author
of a failed assassination attempt, he goes on the run,
reluctantly taking his wife Anne (Romy Schneider) with
him. They take temporary shelter with Paul (Henri
Serre), an old friend, and a pacifist and leftist to
boot.
Dates Available:
Friday, July 16 @ 7:00 PM
Saturday, July 17 @
7:00 PM
Sunday, July 18 @ 5:00 PM
FULL
PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 20th Annual Houston International Jazz
Festival
Discovery
Green : Houston
The Houston International
Jazz Festival represents a rich tradition of excellence
through musical expression. The Festival is the primary
fundraiser for Jazz Education Inc., which is a
non-profit organization committed to the mission of
providing worthwhile education activities for
school-aged youth," stated Houston City Council Member
Jarvis Johnson, Chairman of the Festival.
Dates Available:
Saturday, August 07 @ 5:00 PM
Sunday, August 08
@ 5:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $30.00
OUR PRICE : $15.00
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 Four French Films: Henri-Georges Clouzot's
Inferno
MFAH -
Brown Auditorium : Houston
A documentary
detailing the attempts of legendary French director
Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les Diaboliques; The Wages of
Fear) to film his long-planned project Inferno. A study
of jealousy starring Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani
and granted an unlimited budget by Columbia Pictures,
Clouzot began an unprecedented process of technical
experimentation, with the intention of creating an
innovative film language based on the sonic and visual
art of the period.
Dates
Available:
Friday, July 23 @ 7:00 PM
Saturday, July 24 @ 5:00 PM
Sunday, July 25 @
5:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Four French Films: Breathless
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
Director Jean-Luc
Godard's (b. 1930) debut film heralded the French New
Wave movement not only with its unorthodox editing and
handheld photography, but also its nonjudgmental
portrayal of amoral youth. Godard paid homage to the
1940s American gangster B-movies and developed the plot
from a news item supplied by François Truffaut.
Dates Available:
Thursday, July 29 @ 5:00 PM
Friday, July 30 @
7:00 PM
Saturday, July 31 @ 3:00 PM
FULL
PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Four French Films: Two in the Wave
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
Two in the Wave is
about the friendship between French New Wave filmmakers
Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut (1932-1984). When
Truffaut became a successful filmmaker with The 400
Blows in 1959, he helped Godard shift from writing to
directing, offering him a screenplay which was already
titled, A bout de souffle (Breathless.)
Dates Available:
Thursday, July 29 @ 7:00 PM
Friday, July 30 @
8:45 PM
Saturday, July 31 @ 1:00 PM
FULL
PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Classic Mexican Cinema: Godfather Mendoza
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
Alfredo del Diestro
stars as Rosalio Mendoza, an opportunistic landowner who
survives by alternately aligning himself with
governmental forces and the revolutionary army. He even
switches portraits on the wall of his hacienda, swapping
those of General Victoriano Huerta and Emiliano Zapata
back and forth, depending on the approaching troops.
Dates Available:
Saturday, August 21 @ 8:45 PM
Sunday, August 22
@ 6:45 PM
FULL PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Classic Mexican Cinema: Prisoner 13
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
Colonel Julian
Carrasco´s drinking and violent outbursts cause his wife
and their young son to abandon him. As he rises in the
ranks of the Mexican army, destiny and corruption
persuade Carrasco to accept a bribe to free a
revolutionary, and to arrest and execute someone in his
place. Unbeknownst to him, Carrasco arrests his own son.
Dates Available:
Saturday, August 21 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 22
@ 5:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Classic Mexican Cinema: Lets Go with
Pancho Villa! - Vamanos con Pancho Villa!
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
This historically
significant film was rediscovered in the 1980s and is
now considered a landmark of Mexican cinema. Set in
1914, the story follows the rise and fall of the freedom
fighter through six rancheros, all of whom leave the
rural province of San Pedro to join Pancho Villa's army.
One by one, the men fall victim to various terrible
fates — battle, disease, and a barroom brawl — until
there is only one survivor, Tiburcio Maya.
Dates Available:
Saturday, August 14 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 15
@ 5:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Back by Popular Demand Film Series: Ajami
MFAH - Brown
Auditorium : Houston
The Oscar-nominated,
multilayered narrative screened in Houston during this
year´s Jewish Film Festival "is a visceral crime drama
with a strong ensemble cast, codirected by a Palestinian
and an Israeli. In a multi-ethnic Jaffa neighborhood, a
powerful Bedouin clan wages a vendetta against a poor
family. A teenage worker from the Occupied Territories
desperately tries to raise money to help his ailing
mother.
Dates Available:
Saturday, August 07 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 08
@ 1:00 PM
Thursday, August 12 @ 5:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Back by Popular Demand Film Series: Alamar
- To the Sea
MFAH
- Brown Auditorium : Houston
One of the
favorites from this year´s Latin Wave, the international
award-winning Alamar tells the story of five-year-old
Natan, whose Italian mother and Mexican father have
decided to separate;, Natan will return with his mother
to live in Italy. Before leaving Mexico he will stay
with his father and learn the ways of the fishermen. The
Banco Chinchorro, which contains the largest coral reef
extension in Mexico, is the film´s main setting and
provides a fascinating world as seen through the eyes of
a child.
Dates
Available:
Friday, August 06 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 08 @ 5:00 PM
Friday, August 13 @
7:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $7.00
OUR PRICE : $3.50
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 Festival of Orignials: 5 Short Original
Scripts - 20 minutes Each
Theatre Southwest :
Houston
Now entering it's 13th year, we're
very proud of our Festival of Orignials. Five original
one-act plays, by five different playwrights with five
different casts, are premiered on our stage each year.
This eclectic mix never fails to please.
Dates Available:
Friday, July 23 @ 8:00 PM
FULL PRICE :
$13.00
OUR PRICE : $6.50
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 Leaving Iowa - A Hilarious Comedy from A.
D. Players
Grace
Theater : Houston
A story for everyone who
has ever revisited memories of youth, Leaving Iowa
follows Don, a middle-aged man who returns home to Iowa
in search of a final resting place for his father's
ashes. As he travels across the state searching for the
perfect place to scatter the ashes, memories of
childhood road trips with his father resurface, and he
is finally able to come to peace with his past and
present. This hilarious comedy feature 5 actors playing
a variety of roles.
Dates
Available:
Wednesday, July 07 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, July 09 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 10 @
8:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $15.00 -
$36.00
OUR PRICE : FREE
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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Owen Theatre : Conroe
Boisterous, ribald and ulitmately
shattering, Ken Kesey's tale is the unforgettable story
of a mental ward and its inhabitants which pits the
brawling, fun-loving Randle P. McMurphry against the
tyrannical martinet, Nurse Rached.
Dates Available:
Friday, July 09 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 10 @
8:00 PM
Sunday, July 11 @ 2:00 PM
FULL
PRICE : $17.00
OUR PRICE : $8.50
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 West Side Story - A Classic Tale of Sharks
vs. Jets
Garza
Mainstage Theatre : Houston
The award
winning adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romantic
tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. When Tony and Maria meet at a
dance, not even the hatred of their two warring New York
City gangs can stop their love. When Tony tries to stop
a rumble, hoping to end the violence, tragedy strikes.
Dates Available:
Thursday, July 08 @ 8:00 PM
FULL PRICE :
$16.00
OUR PRICE : $8.00
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 Beauty and the Beast - Story about Loves
Power to Transform
The Company OnStage :
Houston
When a good witch and a bad witch
make a bet, a handsome Prince is transformed into an
ugly beast. Can Beauty see beyond his appearance to
break the spell? Come share in the enchantment of this
wonderful story about love's power to transform.
Dates Available:
Saturday, July 10 @ 11:00 AM
Saturday, July 10 @
1:30 PM
Saturday, July 17 @ 11:00 AM
FULL
PRICE : $8.00
OUR PRICE : $4.00
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 The Hollow - A Murder Mystery by Agatha
Christie
The
Company OnStage : Houston
During a country
weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy
Angkatell, love and intrigue inevitably lead to the
murder of one of their guests. Can Inspector Colquhoun
and Sergeant Penny solve this crime of passion before
you in this classic country house mystery by the
incomparable Agatha Christie?
Dates
Available:
Friday, July 09 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 10 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, July 16 @
8:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $15.00
OUR PRICE : $7.50
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 The Wizard of Oz Presented by Class Act
Productions
Nancy
Bock Center : The Woodlands
Little Dorothy
Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age, dreams of
what lies over the rainbow- Somewhere over the Rainbow.
One day a twister hits her farm and carries her away
over the rainbow to another world. Come join Dorothy,
the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion and Toto as
they travel the land of OZ! This incredible production
will feature a full-stage flying phenomenon brought ZFX
Flying Effects.
Dates
Available:
Friday, July 16 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 17 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, July 23 @
7:30 PM
FULL PRICE : $22.00
OUR PRICE : $10.00
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 Five Guys Named Moe - Starring Film &
Television Star T.C. Carson
The Ensemble Theatre :
Houston
Actor T.C. Carson, most widely
known for his role as Kyle Barker on the FOX Television
sitcom 'Living Single' will play the main character,
Nomax. After losing his woman and ending up flat broke
Nomax meets five jazzy fellows: Big Moe, Four-Eyed Moe,
Eat Moe, No Moe, and Little Moe who emerge from his
1930s style radio to comfort, cajole, wheedle and jazz
him with the hit songs of songwriter and saxophonist,
Louis Jordan, one of the most revered talents of the
20th century.
Dates
Available:
Thursday, July 15 @ 7:30 PM
FULL PRICE : $25.00
OUR PRICE : $12.50
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 A West Houston Singles Party - Houston
Single Source
Cantino Laredo :
Houston
Houston Single Source invites
Houston Singles to spend a night with us at Cantina
Laredo. Famous for serving authentic Mexican dishes in a
sophisticated atmosphere. We will be sampling light
appetizers and enjoying some happy hour cocktails. Come
experience an outstanding ethnic atmosphere right in
your own backyard!
Dates
Available:
Thursday, July 15 @ 6:30 PM
FULL PRICE : $10.00
OUR PRICE : $5.00
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 A Woodlands Singles Event With Houston
Singles Source
Crush Wine Bar :
The Woodlands
Join Houston Single Source as
we visit the Woodlands’ exclusive Crush Wine Bar. They
offer hundreds of treasures; boutique wines, limited
production, up-and-comers, and of course beers available
also. The best view in The Woodlands combined with the
best party in The Woodlands makes for a hot summer
night.
Dates Available:
Wednesday, July 14 @ 6:30 PM
FULL PRICE :
$10.00
OUR PRICE : $5.00
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 A Clear Lake Singles Event With Houston
Singles Source
Cullens Upscale
American Grille : Clear Lake
Calling all
Clear Lake area singles! Spend your night with Houston
Single Source at the home of Clear Lake's finest
Continental cuisine - Cullen's! Make new friends while
sampling delicious food from Cullen's. Ice breaker games
make it easy to meet someone and our staff is always on
hand to make introductions. What better way to spend
your Thursday night?
Dates
Available:
Thursday, July 15 @ 6:30 PM
FULL PRICE : $10.00
OUR PRICE : $5.00
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 Tom Rhodes - The Laff Spot Comedy Club
Laff Spot : Houston
In a raucous stand up career spanning 25
years and 7 continents, Tom Rhodes has been on HBO, The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno and filmed two half hour
specials for Comedy Central "Comedy Central
presents...Tom Rhodes". Tom was also the host of his own
late night talk show in Amsterdam for Dutch television.
Dates Available:
Friday, July 09 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, July 09 @
10:30 PM
Saturday, July 10 @ 7:00 PM
FULL
PRICE : $15.00
OUR PRICE : $7.50
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 Blues Revue - A Tribute to the Blues
Brothers
Third
Coast Comedy : Houston
Third Coast Comedy
presents Houston's Own Blues Brothers in A Blues Musical
Revue. The Blues Revue, A Tribute to the Blues Brothers
Jake and Elwood. Starring Tom Sofka as Jake and Dave
Howell-DePew as Elwood.
Dates
Available:
Saturday, July 17 @ 8:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $15.00
OUR PRICE : $7.50
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 Family Improv Houston - A Similar Take to
Who's Line is it Anyway?
Third Coast Comedy :
Houston
With a similar format to "Who's
Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey, our in-house improv
experts delight and entertain you and your family. This
is good old fashion clean family fun at its best. Each
week different audience members are invited on stage to
participate with the Improv Troupe. Young and old a like
love the free form style of comedy and entertainment.
Dates Available:
Friday, July 09 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 10 @
7:30 PM
FULL PRICE : $10.00
OUR PRICE : $5.00
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 Paintball : Houston's Finest Paintball
Field
Urban War
Zone : houston
Urban War Zone Paintball is
downtown Houston's finest paintball field! Located deep
in the heart of Houston, we are just 2 blocks off I-45
South - inside loop 610! The field is virtually minutes
from anywhere in Houston. We have created an exciting
paintball field - accessible to anyone in Houston metro
area. We hope you'll enjoy playing our fields as much as
we do.
Dates Available:
Sunday, July 11 @ 12:00 PM
FULL PRICE :
$25.00
OUR PRICE : $13.00
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 ComedySportz 4 Kidz - Hilarious, Clean,
Foolproof, Fast-Paced & Positive
ComedySportz Arena :
Houston
Created for our younger fans and
their families, our ComedySportz 4 Kidz show features
three all-star performers who invent the performance
with the help of the audience.
Dates
Available:
Saturday, August 07 @ 4:00
PM
FULL PRICE : $8.00
OUR PRICE : $4.00
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 Dean Lewis - The Laff Spot Comedy Club
Laff Spot : Houston
His show is appealing to all audiences as
his seamless narrative style keeps you completely
engaged in stories about marriage being the reason for
all crime, boa constrictors making great pets, and gravy
as the origination of the Texas accent.
Dates Available:
Friday, July 23 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, July 23 @
10:30 PM
Saturday, July 24 @ 7:00 PM
FULL
PRICE : $15.00
OUR PRICE : $7.50
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 3rd Annual Catch of the Day Party
Gigi’s Asian Bistro
Bar : Houston
Join Houston Single Source
for our Annual Catch of the Day Party - who knows what
catch you just might hook...If you have a “catch” you’d
like to introduce around to one of our 150+ friends,
bring them. If you don’t have a “catch” to show off, no
problem, come anyway! Lots of people come on their own!
Dates Available:
Thursday, July 29 @ 6:00 PM
FULL PRICE :
$15.00
OUR PRICE : $7.50
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 Mystery Cafe's - Murder Mystery Dinner
Theatre
Sheraton
Suites Hotel : Houston
Enter the glittering
and cutthroat world of the professional Karaoke Singer
in Mystery Cafe Houston's world premiere show! Someone
is stalking the contestants of the Gulf Coast Regional
Semi-Final Three Steps Before National Silver Microphone
Karaoke Competition and it's up to you to find out
who.....while there are still some crooners living!
Dates Available:
Saturday, July 10 @ 8:00 PM
FULL PRICE :
$54.95
OUR PRICE : $35.00
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 ComedySportz Houston - Clean Comedy For
Everyone
ComedySportz Arena :
Houston
Houston's longest running improv
comedy show, ComedySportz features teams of improv
comedians who compete for laughs as they make up scenes
and songs on the spot. Not comedy about sports, but
rather comedy played as a sport, similar to "Whose Line
Is It Anyway?" on t.v.
Dates
Available:
Friday, July 09 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 10 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, July 16 @
8:00 PM
FULL PRICE : $16.00
OUR PRICE : $8.00
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