East End Stories

The Ensemble Theatre continues its screening of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG)  Legacy Leaders of Color Video Project highlighting 9 of the nation’s trailblazing founders of minority theatre groups. This year’s featured leaders from the series include: Tisa Chang, Miriam Colon, Luis Valdez, Frank Chin

���Reel Forces” examines the traces of humanity, memory, and conflict through “Beyond Zero: 1914-1918,” a moving and mesmerizing film of rare WWI archival footage by auteur-director Bill Morrison, and scored for string quartet by Aleksandra Vrebalov. Two experimental films curated by the Houston Cinema Arts Society and musical works by Marcus K. Maroney and Florent…

BERLIN’s Zvizdal is a cinematic play that follows the day-to-day existence of an elderly couple living in the abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone. To create the work, the Belgian-based collective, BERLIN, traveled to the village of Zvizdal to document how the couple continues to live, work, and survive 30 years after the nuclear disaster of 1986. The resulting film, sculpture,…

For extreme filmmaker Bryan Smith, the line between going for it and going too far is often blurry – especially when you’re exploring the earth’s most remote environments. In this edge-of-your-seat presentation, Bryan shows you what it means to adventure with purpose, and why he believes the best expeditions are the ones with a healthy…

The series begins in January with Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta's gripping adaptation of Heinrich Böll's novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Katharina Blum's life is turned upside down after spending the night with an alleged terrorist. She suddenly becomes a suspect herself and is subjected to vicious smear campaign by the police…

Sell Your Body Show: A Sex Positivity Show Sat. 1/19 | Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM | $10 Gritty. Sexy. Inspiring. Unique. Get mind blown by: Wadé Fenty performing space/time bending music ~ Skabz The Clown doing something funny, gross, scary, or all three!! Tre Tutson performing hilarious stand-up and playing games ♥ Britt Vasicek burlesquing as…