November
From: August 29, 2012 - September 23, 2012
Location: Alley Theatre
Address: 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002
Phone:713-220-5700
As the 2012 Presidential election campaign continues, David Mamet's November offers audiences a fiendishly funny, over-the-top, no-holds-barred take on American politics. Unfolding in one day, just days before a national election and with poll numbers "lower than Gandhi's cholesterol," President Charles Smith (Alley Company Artist John Tyson), the most corrupt and inept buffoon to sit in the Oval Office, sets his sight on a second-term. With his usual acerbic wit and edgy social commentary, Mamet's latest masterpiece is a gleeful cornucopia of corruption and political incorrectness full of shady backroom schemes like Thanksgiving turkeys awaiting pardon and an American Indian lobbyist who wants to turn Nantucket into a gambling resort that will leave you laughing out loud. "Extremely funny" (The New York Times), November "rollicks from one politically incorrect punch line to the next" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Recommended for mature audiences due to language and thematic content.

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Free Rads Jazz Trio
Central Library Plaza
500 McKinney, 77002, 832-393-1313
Wednesday, September 19 | 12 PM – 1 PM
Listen to an early afternoon set of jazz, funk, and improvisational instrumental music from some of Houston’s finest, most flexible musicians. Nick Cooper (drums) and Theo Bijarro (bass) are members of the Free Radicals, the ten-time "Best Jazz" winners in the Houston Press Music Awards. Cory Wilson is a versatile young local sax man who plays jazz, funk, and ska with local bands, including the award-winning group The Suffers.

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