Email Author David Theis
Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This... More >>
When Troy Schulze's character Bernard ambles onto the tiny stage of Catastrophic Theatre's "micro-theater" to open There Is a Happiness That... More >>
The setup: After making their audiences bust a gut laughing at their summer Tamarie revue, Catastrophic Theatre likes to begin a new season by slapping that same audience upside the head. In a good w... More >>
2nd Annual Festival of Comedy UpStage Theatre's 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy allows local playwrights to strut their stuff in... More >>
2nd Annual Festival of Comedy UpStage Theatre's 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy allows local playwrights to strut their stuff in... More >>
The setup: American Buffalo is an early David Mamet play, so you know that it's going to feature tough talk from unsavory, pathetic people. Men, to be precise. This 1976 play is set in a basement ju... More >>
See our review of Houston Shakespeare Festival's Othello here. The setup: Act Two of the Houston Shakespeare Festival is off to a rousing start with its production of The Taming of the Shrew. The fes... More >>
I hate to say this, but summer trips to Miller Outdoor Theatre's — and UH's — Houston Shakespeare Festival had come to have a whiff of... More >>
The setup: The Houston Shakespeare Festival production of Othello carries an unusual amount of star power. The tragically jealous Moor is played by The Wire alum Seth Gilliam, and the play is directed... More >>
Blithe Spirit director Claire Hart-Palumbo must've had her hands full just a week before the play opened, when she had to recast its... More >>
The set-up: Blithe Spirit is Noel Coward's famous comedy that asks the question, "What happens if death do us not partr" Charles Condomine, a fussy English novelist and his new wife, Ruth, are haunted... More >>
The Monster at the Door, in its world premiere at the Alley Theatre, begins innocently enough. An artist named Maya (Portia) arrives... More >>
The setup: Gregory Boyd certainly has an eye for young talent. A few years ago he invited then nearly unknown playwright Rajiv Joseph to become an Alley Company Artist, and in 2009 the company staged... More >>
The Marriage of Figaro Mozart's sublime opera is all about love. All kinds, from raunchy seduction to moonlight serenade. Based on... More >>
The setup: There is so much to praise in the Classical Theatre Company and The Prague Shakespeare Festival's joint production of King Lear (which is playing in repertory with As You Like It) that I ... More >>
Yankee Tavern opens in a seedy New York City bar that time and customers have forgotten. The bar's fresh-faced owner, Adam (Adam... More >>
Yankee Tavern, which just began its run at Stages, doesn't completely hang together dramatically. Playwright Steven Dietz sends his plot spinning off in too many directions. You might say that it's ... More >>
In outline, Tracy Letts's August: Osage County sounds rather derivative. It's an intense family drama featuring a frightening,... More >>
Oh, the Humanity and other exclamations begins with a disorienting bang. A disheveled and nervous-looking Coach (Philip Lehl) walks... More >>
Bus Stop In the 1950s, William Inge was lauded along with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller as one of the three great American... More >>
The Setup: Herbert Siguenza, writer and actor in the one-man show Weekend with Pablo Picasso, has said that his purpose here is to make the audience feel "like they are spending an intimate weekend wi... More >>
Candida There's no front curtain at Classical Theater's production of George Bernard Shaw's sparkling comedy, so when you enter... More >>
The Setup: The idea of adapting Joan Didion's bestselling memoir The Year of Magical Thinking to the stage sounds thrilling, and almost plausible. The book, which mostly describes Didion's emotional a... More >>
