See the latest performing arts productions and theater happenings opening across Houston from Monday, November 3 to Sunday, November 9, 2025.
What I love about this week’s openings is that they epitomize just how incredible Houston is at bringing in, and fostering, amazing talent from around the world.
Whether it’s the faculty and students at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music or DaCamera or the Society of Indoamerican Arts, you have multiple opportunities to catch a variety of music styles.
A big Broadway hit with songs you know by heart comes to the Hobby Center. And so does a celebration of divas that’s already selling out.
Any time I see Open Dance Project on a calendar, I get excited; if you haven’t seen them, go, and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
There’s something else I want to shout out especially: the staged reading this week of HoopzTown. It’s part of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, so it’s technically not a performing arts piece, but…it is an opportunity for you to get a feel for how a screenplay for a TV pilot comes together, and it’s 100 percent a Houston story. And you know how much I love Houstonians supporting Houstonians.
Go see performing arts, Houston!
Top Live Theater & Arts Performances This Week: November 3 to 9, 2025
Showtime! New Openings & This Week Only Shows
DaCamera: Raphaël Feuillâtre, Guitar – Latin Passions at The Menil Collection | Monday – Experience a concert by an artist hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, known for the depth of his interpretations, dazzling virtuosity and the richness of his repertoire. $63.50. 7:30pm. Get tickets.
Sharing the Spotlight: Brinton Averil Smith & Friends at Rice University Duncan Recital Hall | Monday | FREE – Rice University Shepherd School of Music faculty and students join together for a concert featuring Sinding: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 64a and Borodin: String Quintet in F Minor. 7:30pm. Get tickets.
Broadway at The Hobby Center: A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical | Tuesday to Sunday – Including chart-topping hits like “Sweet Caroline” and “Song Sung Blue,” this bio-musical charts the story of how a kid from Brooklyn became one of America’s rock icons. $55+. Times vary. Get tickets.
Live at the Founders Club: Divas Across the Decades at The Hobby Center | Thursday & Friday – Christina Wells celebrates the music of iconic divas, from jazz legends to Motown and more. $35+. 7:30pm both nights. Get tickets.
Open Dance Project: Dada Gert at MATCH | Friday & Saturday – The company, known for its athleticism and artistry brings its signature style to the raucous performance world of Valeska Gert, a renegade dance/theater/film/cabaret artist whose punk-like “dance satires” alternately challenged and thrilled audiences in Weimar era Berlin. $35. Times vary. Get tickets.
Staged Reading: HoopzTown at Six Foot | Saturday – Hear the reading of this TV pilot script, conceptualized and written by Fleurette S. Fernando. Set in 1996, it’s the story of Maya Hernandez, who abandons a chance at the WNBA in its inaugural year to return home to Houston after her mother is diagnosed with cancer. The reading has a cast of more than 20 actors, visual and sound elements, and provides an inside look into the stages of a community-based story from concept to script development to film. Pay-What-You-Can. 2pm. Get tickets.
Social Movement Dance Company: Best of Both Worlds at The Gordy | Saturday – The company presents an evening of bold new works that merge physicality, narrative, and emotion. The program includes the world premiere of Yu-Ling Yeh’s Gun 滚 (“roll” or “boil”). $30. 7:30pm. Get tickets.
Society of Indoamerican Arts: The Dhuns of India at MATCH | Saturday – This concert featuring Mehtab Ali Niazi, S. Akash, Mahalakshmi Krishnan, Rohan Krishanamurthy and Amit Kavthekar showcases the colorful diversity of India’s folk music. $32+. 8pm. Get tickets.
They’ve Got Legs! Ongoing Shows
Houston Grand Opera: Porgy & Bess at Wortham Center | Wednesday & Friday | Closes Saturday, November 15 – The opera opens its 2025-26 season with Gershwin’s masterpiece about Porgy, a disabled beggar, and Bess, a woman struggling with addiction, who fall in love in the Jim Crow South, set in the fictional Catfish Row slum of Charleston. Blending jazz, spirituals, blues and classical music, the opera is one of the composer’s most acclaimed works. $25+. Times vary. Get tickets.
Music Box Theater: Back to the ’80s at Queensbury Theatre | Friday & Saturday | Closes Saturday, November 22 – The jukebox show feature classics from Aerosmith, Queen, INXS, Simple Minds, Neil Diamond, U2, Tiffany and more. 7:30pm. Get tickets.
Lone Star Spirits at Theatre Southwest | Friday to Sunday | Closes Saturday, November 15 – Marley and her hipster fiance get more than they bargained for when they head to her small hometown, where she’s immediately set on by her football hero ex. $22. Times vary. Get tickets.
Houston Grand Opera: Il Trittico at Wortham Center | Saturday | Closes Friday, November 14 – The company’s first-ever full presentation of Puccini’s trio of one-act operas is three stories in one. l tabarro, a tale of passion and betrayal set on the Seine. Suor Angelica delves into the desperation of a cloistered nun with a haunted past. Gianni Schicchi is the tale of a cunning conman who turns a family’s greed into a delightful farce. Get tickets.
Curtain Call! Closing This Week
Dirt Dogs Theatre’s The Minutes runs out the clock at MATCH on Sunday.
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