If there is any generic setting for short plays, writes the editor of a recent volume of such works, it's a restaurant. The built-in pauses that... More >>
There are rare moments in theater when the line between art and life fades and the twain meet. Tamarie Cooper knows about that line, and about... More >>
It was a hopeless scene. On a midsummer morning in 1995, a rundown Sixth Ward neighborhood was filled with the floating gray particles that only a... More >>
The great frustration of being a lover of alternative theater is being limited -- by geography or vacation dollars -- to the amount of risky fare... More >>
When invited into the homes of the very rich, one has certain expectations: a peek at the art collection; a little wistful envy over the quality... More >>
Carson McCullers, the wunderkind Southern novelist who was both adored and shunned in post- World War II literary circles, was a most unlikely... More >>
Long before opening night, the second half of the Alley's two-part production of The Greeks was saddled with weighty responsibilities. There were... More >>
A line of dancers perched on a long bench laughs soundlessly, and then whispers a line of prose that builds until it's a collective shout. Like... More >>
Of all the modern masters of theater, Samuel Beckett probably offers a stage director the widest opportunity to invent meaning and, right along... More >>
The out-of-town dance critics who flooded Houston last week weren't here just because they admire the Houston Ballet (though that's part of it).... More >>
The most cynical man I ever knew believed in Jackie O. A valet at one of her favorite hotels, he was moved by her silent grace -- evident even in... More >>
The looming premiere of the Houston Ballet's Dracula has all but overshadowed the company's spring repertory concert. But, as is usually the case... More >>
When Ella Fitzgerald died last year, one of her many obituaries pointed out that, influential and respected as she was, she was never quite as... More >>
There are certain neighborhoods in Houston where, late at night and into the early hours of the morning, well-groomed cars with large speakers... More >>
While theater has a long history of investigating father-son relationships (from Shakespeare's King Henry and Prince Hal to Arthur Miller's Willy... More >>
An aging grande dame sweeps into her childhood home in Russia following a long absence, her youngest daughter and a Parisian entourage in tow,... More >>
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known to most of the world as Moliere, was born a child of privilege. That he chose to enter the theater and, worse,... More >>
It may be a theatrical cliche to say that what goes on backstage can often be more entertaining than what the audience sees, but in the case of... More >>
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.
