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After the storm and fury of Peter Grimes (1945), whose sea-tossed music and psychologically truthful and damaged characters were heralded as a new era in English opera,...
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The Ballad of Emmett Till The brutal murder by two white men of 14-year old Emmett Till, an African-American, was a pivotal moment in America's Civil Rights movement, and this...
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Anna Bolena Opera girl power is in full swing at Opera in the Heights as it mounts an exciting and dramatically sung production of Donizetti's first major work, from 1830. Anna...
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Deadly Murder This murder mystery combines suspense, humor, attempts at drawing-room comedy, bizarre twists, violence and sturdy actors in an unlikely medley offering something...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, is known for his implacable intolerance, so chances are he hasn’t seen any of the features in the Iranian Film Festival. (If he...
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Stop reading! Put down the Houston Press right now — this review can wait — and quickly call Main Street Theater, or go to its Web site, and order tickets to The...
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Deadly Murder This murder mystery combines suspense, humor, attempts at drawing-room comedy, bizarre twists, violence and sturdy actors in an unlikely medley offering something...
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Deadly Murder This murder mystery combines suspense, humor, attempts at drawing-room comedy, bizarre twists, violence and sturdy actors in an unlikely medley offering something...
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Once you write, direct and produce a cultural (and hence immensely profitable) television phenomenon like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, your Hollywood Q factor is good for a few...
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Fruitcakes The Music Box Theater, Houston's newest cabaret troupe, presents a "very special holiday special." The show more than lives up to its billing. You expect something a...
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever A substitute pageant director has (gasp!) to cast six unruly children to tell the story of The Manger. The Herdsman family is financially...
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever A substitute pageant director has (gasp!) to cast six unruly children to tell the story of The Manger. The Herdsman family is financially...
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Anna Bella Eema The world of the surreal and the real is fashioned into bold theatrical relief by playwright Lisa D'Amour, composer Chris Sidorfsky, a trio of superlative...
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By D.L. Groover, Mandy Oaklander and Jim J. Tommaney Published:
December 8, 2011
Anna Bella Eema The world of the surreal and the real is fashioned into bold theatrical relief by playwright Lisa D'Amour, composer Chris Sidorfsky, a trio of superlative...
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Cinderella The Ensemble Theatre's take on Cinderella gives the fairy tale a lively, rollicking treatment. There are moments of poignant beauty in this production, but broad...
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Where would theater be without family? This great fount of inspiration, conflict and character building (or warping) flows from drama's very heart, starting with the original...
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Così fan tutte Among all of Mozart's splendid operas, perhaps Così is most special, because it has taken the most lumps, molding in the closet after its 1791...
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Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This second production from the newly minted troupe...
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Beethoven's only opera (1805, revised 1814), Fidelio, is a mighty ode to joy, political freedom and conjugal bliss. In coarse hands, the work — an amalgam of "rescue"...
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Damaged Divas of the Decades A particularly high style of cabaret is in performance through November at Music Box Theater. This second production from the newly minted troupe...
