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2010 Stories by Lee Williams

• Hello Dolly

  published July 8, 2010

  Move over, www.getmeahusbandquick.com, Dolly Gallagher Levi is coming to town. She might be old-school, but no matchmaker has been more successful... More >>

• Target Free First Sunday: America the Beautiful

  published July 1, 2010

  Just say no to whining kids and biting mosquitoes this holiday weekend. Instead, head to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the kid-friendly... More >>

• Target Free First Sunday: America the Beautiful

  published July 1, 2010

  Just say no to whining kids and biting mosquitoes this holiday weekend. Instead, head to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the kid-friendly... More >>

• An Evening of Original Plays

  published July 1, 2010

  Girls hook up and talk-show hosts kick the bucket in An Evening of Original Plays, presented by Aside Productions. "This show has something... More >>

• The Glass Menagerie

  published July 1, 2010

  David Rainey has big ideas for the Landing Theatre Company, the brand-new professional theater company housed at the University of... More >>

• Leaving Iowa

  published July 1, 2010

  If you're too busy or too broke to leave town this summer, the A.D. Players have the show for you. Leaving Iowa is a comedic homage... More >>

• While the Lights Were Out

  published July 1, 2010

  American playwright Jack Sharkey certainly knows how to twist an old-fashioned murder mystery into an outrageously funny comedy. His silly... More >>

• Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival

  published June 24, 2010

  The days of radio story hours may be long gone, but don't tell that to Kelli Estes, artistic director of Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival.... More >>

• Wicked

  published June 24, 2010

  In The Wizard of Oz everyone is thinking about Dorothy. But Stephen Schwartz's and Winnie Holzman's award-winning Broadway musical... More >>

• Cuckoos

  published June 10, 2010

  Hook-up sex can get you in trouble. Especially if you're one of the characters in Giuseppe Manfridi's play Cuckoos. "The story is... More >>

• One Was Nude and One Wore Tails

  published June 10, 2010

  Though playwright Dario Fo once complained that "political theater has become a kind of byword for boring theater," he certainly wasn’t... More >>

• A Life in the Theatre and Tuesdays with Morrie

  published June 10, 2010

  At first blush, the profanity-loving playwright David Mamet and the sweetly sentimental Mitch Albom don't seem to have much in common, but Stuart... More >>

• Panic

  published June 3, 2010

  Joseph Goodrich's award-winning theater mystery Panic is set in Paris. It's the 1960s, and the central character divides his time... More >>

• The Girl, the Grouch and the Goat

  published May 27, 2010

  The title of UpStage Theatre's latest production, The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat, might sound like a children's show. In fact,... More >>

• Young Frankenstein

  published May 20, 2010

  A monster in a top hat, a crazed scientist, a yodeling lab assistant - only the smart and super-silly imagination of Mel Brooks could stitch... More >>

• Case No. 105

  published May 13, 2010

  The Midnight Theatre Company did not get its name by accident. According to company member Vanessa Hernandez, founder Jimmy Mai was driving around... More >>

• A Village Called Versailles

  published May 13, 2010

  Some of the most invisible victims of the Katrina nightmare were the Vietnamese Americans living in the New Orleans neighborhood of Versailles.... More >>

• Man's Best Friend

  published April 29, 2010

  Mary Chase's 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvey is a deceptive comedy. Light and fluffy as a bunny on the outside, the story has a... More >>

• Big Bite Nite

  published April 29, 2010

  Dine with the dinosaurs at the Houston Museum of Natural Science's second annual Big Bite Nite. The first year, the fund-raising event "was... More >>

• Jake Silverstein: Nothing Happened and Then It Did

  published April 29, 2010

  These days writing a memoir is sticky business. Just ask James Frey, Herman Rosenblat or Margaret Seltzer - all of whom got caught passing off... More >>

• Xerxes

  published April 29, 2010

  You expect opera to have wild plots, but one about a Persian king who's enamored of a tree? That's how George Frideric Handel's Xerxes... More >>

• "Archaeopteryx: Icon of Evolution"

  published April 29, 2010

  One perfectly fossilized feather led 19th-century scientists to a stunning evolutionary find - Archaeopteryx - a feather-covered lizard who lived... More >>

• Pink Martini at Houston Symphony

  published April 29, 2010

  Pink Martini, the uber-cool orchestra from Portland, Oregon, started out in 1994 playing groovy golden oldies like "Que Sera Sera." Now the... More >>

• Little House on the Prairie, the Musical

  published April 22, 2010

  In the 1930s, when Laura Ingalls Wilder began publishing her Little House series of children's books, the novelist could never have imagined the... More >>

• Catastrophic Theatre's Big! Bang! Catastrophe!

  published April 22, 2010

  BODY: Jim Parsons -- the Emmy-nominated star who plays Sheldon in the CBS hit comedy The Big Band Theory! -- is no ordinary local boy done good.... More >>