{"id":348384,"date":"2026-06-24T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:46:29","slug":"hilary-duff-houston-symphonys-harry-potter-kam-franklin-top-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348384\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff, Houston Symphony&#8217;s Harry Potter, Kam Franklin top events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston&#8217;s Hilary Duff. the hitmaker behind the 2000s-era tracks &#8220;Come Clean,&#8221; &#8220;So Yesterday&#8221; and &#8220;What Dreams Are Made Of&#8221; returns to the stage this weekend. But the pop singer is not just ramping up the nostalgia. She has a new album, &#8220;Luck&#8230;Or Something&#8221; and a new EP, &#8220;Mine.&#8221; Opening for her is Jade LeMac and La Roux.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins, The Woodlands<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Houston Symphony accompanied a screening of &#8220;The Princess Bride&#8221; in The Woodlands and this week the orchestra will be doing the same with &#8220;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&#8221; in Houston. Even if you have seen the film many times before, you&#8217;ve probably never seen it like this.<\/p>\n<p>When: 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2\u00a0p.m. Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Kam\u00a0Franklin is best-known as the powerhouse vocalist for Houston&#8217;s Gulf Coast soul band The Suffers. But she has been branching out on her own, releasing singles and EPs as well as a new solo album, &#8220;Land of the Neon Sun,&#8221; coming in August. Now, you can check out her solo show this weekend at The Big Top at the Continental Club.<\/p>\n<p>Where: The Big Top at the Continental Club, 3714 Main<\/p>\n<p>The music of the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s forms the backdrop for this story of a fictional R&amp;B group called The Doves, a band struggling to make the transition from doo-wop to what would come next. Written by Jaye T. Stewart and Joe Plummer, the award-winning play was first performed at Chicago&#8217;s Victory Gardens Theater in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Where: The Ensemble Theatre, 3535 Main<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Austin\u00a0singer-songwriter Bob Schneider takes another drive down 290 to visit his friends in Houston, bringing along with him his singular style that combines country, pop and R&amp;B. He has a new album, &#8220;FAYM,&#8221; and a new single, &#8220;Set Yourself Free,&#8221; so expect a lot of new stuff along with his classics.<\/p>\n<p>When: 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday<\/p>\n<p>Where: McGonigel&#8217;s Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s Hilary Duff. the hitmaker behind the 2000s-era tracks &#8220;Come Clean,&#8221; &#8220;So Yesterday&#8221; and &#8220;What Dreams Are Made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-348384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}