Proclaimed by the London Daily Telegraph as "Andrew Lloyd Webber's best show since The Phantom of the Opera," WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND will launch its first-ever U.S. National tour September 9 through 22 at Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2007-08 Theatre Under the Stars season.

Alley Theatre presents Theresa Rebeck’s sharp witted comedy ‘The Scene’, on stage from October 25 through November 25.

Alley Theatre presents a classic American screwball comedy ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’. It runs from October 5 through November 4 on the Hubbard Stage.

Alley Theatre kicks off the 2007-2008 season with John Patrick Shanley’s Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning play ‘Doubt’.

Following a successful summer session, the Alley Theatre’s Young Performers Studio is pleased to announce the 2007 fall session. The Alley Theatre Young Performers Studio (YPS) engages students in a dynamic introduction to theatre arts while fostering their individual creativity and building skills that reach beyond the stage.

This fall, the Glassell Junior School of Art presents dual exhibitions highlighting works created by summer-school students and participants in the community bridge program, formerly known as outreach.

In what has become the first posthumous retrospective, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present the complete works of the legendary Italian filmmaker, Michelangelo Antonioni, who died on July 30, 2007 at age 94.

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens is teaming with Houston´s Opera Vista this fall to stage the Texas premiere of Amy Beach´s Cabildo on the terraced lawn of the elegant residence at 1 Westcott Street off of Memorial Drive. The outdoor performance begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 22, 2007 in the Diana Garden, one of several formal gardens on the property.

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary Season, Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is thrilled to launch the National touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Jim Steinman’s WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND September 9-22 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby at Walker).

Kicking off the Alley Theatre’s 61st season is John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, described by the Los Angeles Times as “radiant…one of the most feted Broadway dramas in recent memory.” “Provocative. A gripping story of suspicion…a laudable new American play” wrote Variety of Doubt the winner of last season’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.

Art and ecology meet in a photography exhibition opening this fall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston Wilderness: A Collaboration presents more than 50 photographs that offer unique interpretations of the diverse eco-regions that encompass and surround Houston.

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this fall, places contemporary jewelry within a larger framework of twentieth and twenty-first century art.