In 1990, as the final curtain came down on opening night at The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Marvin Zindler took to the stage and began twirling his baton.
"The audience went insane," remembers ...
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Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons got a write-up in The New York Times as he prepares for his lead role in Harvey, and Houston got some mentions, too.
According to the story, Parsons was a theater nerd...
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When he was a kid, Jonathan Gonzalez didn't much like British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. "I found him really stuffy."
But, "as I mature, I realize how brilliant he is in the way he mixes farce and co...
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Update: Now everyone has until midnight Wednesday to take advantage of this deal.
As part of getting ready for the upcoming Houston Web Awards sponsored by the Houston Press, readers have a chance t...
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There are no intermissions, no entrances or exits, director Seth Gordon promises. For 75 minutes in this one-act play, the audience at Stages... More >>
Paulette Ivory didn't even know who Fela was when a friend of hers called her up and told her "There's a role with your name on it."
The British actress who'd done Lion King and been living in Los An...
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What most intrigues director Scott Schwartz about audiences' reaction to What We're Up Against is whether they see a woman battling to get ahead in an architecture firm more as a comedy or as a drama....
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Mom is bipolar and as she gets worse, it gets tougher and tougher to be part of her family.
So what should we dor Sing about it, of course.
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, nominated for 11 Tony ...
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Read our interview with Carrie Fisher.
Okay, so here's your chance to win two tickets to Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking show, scheduled for May 15-20 at the Hobby Center, brought here courtesy of...
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Two royal queens face off in a room, delivering thundering arias. Who cares if it probably never happened in real life, especially when you have... More >>
First the Houston ISD declared stoutly that it had no pink slime in the meat it had purchased for its children. Restaurants and schools throughout the country might have a problem. It did not, it ass...
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Like to dancer Okay, so maybe you don't dance, but you like to watch ballet, modern dance, tap and B-boys. And -- this is most important -- you understand what they're doing and whether they do it wel...
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Rebecca "Becky" Udden knew she was risking a lot by mounting a production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia with its length, its cast demands, its demanding subject matter. But she knew an...
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With an emphasis on the company actors themselves, the Alley Theatre today announced its 2012-13 season, with James Black taking on Willie Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, John Tyson play...
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The New York Times is a great newspaper in a great city, but sometimes it seems to be sending in reports from another planet, and that planet's inhabitants have more money than they know what to do wi...
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Check out our interview with actor Rutherford Cravens.
Last year, Main Street Theater's Executive Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden saw actor/director Guy Roberts' production of As You Like It ...
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Every family has drama, actress and author Carrie Fisher says. What makes hers worth recounting and putting up onstage is, of course, that she's the fabled daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher...
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For more coverage of La Cage aux Folles, see our interview with George Hamilton.
For one and a half to two hours before every performance -- except when he gets to sub in as the son -- Logan Keslar ...
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It was a problem they never thought they'd have. Houston, with more annual rainfall than Seattle, has always been a green city. All the careful plans that went into executing downtown Houston's Disco...
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In an awards ceremony complete with the big man himself -- Tommy Tune -- Episcopal High School took Best Musical for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Billy Cohen from Episcopal took Best Leading Actor and Cai...
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There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
