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Opening the Box Five veteran performers from Masquerade Theatre, Houston's repository of Broadway musicals, have left that company to form their own: Music Box Theater. The...
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By D.L. Groover, Mandy Oaklander, Jim Tommaney and Rosie Trump Published:
June 16, 2011
Big Range Dance Festival In its second of three weekends, the Big Range Dance Festival delivers just that — a big range of fresh, new contemporary dance. With nine...
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In July 2001, Fred Martinez, a Native American high school freshman in Cortez, Colorado, was bludgeoned to death by 18-year-old Shaun Murphy, a petty criminal and gang member....
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In 1920, actor John Barrymore was perhaps the most famous man on earth. Handsome and charismatic, he was known for his great profile. (He looks pretty good from the front,...
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Asylum Sweet, nerdy Gary (Chris Patton), who seems permanently stuck somewhere near adolescence, finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into his dream world until he can't tell...
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By the time English playwright Sarah Kane’s last play was produced (4:48 Psychosis), she had hanged herself in a mental institution. That should give you some small idea...
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George Bernard Shaw's most convivial play — he subtitled it a "Romance in Five Acts" — Pygmalion takes on class consciousness with a breezy attitude and romantic...
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By D.L. Groover, Mandy Oaklander and Jim Tommaney Published:
June 2, 2011
Opening the Box Five veteran performers from Masquerade Theatre, Houston's repository of Broadway musicals, have left that company to form their own: Music Box Theater. The...
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Hey, what’s a movie without sex and violence? Not much if you’re hot Japanese director Takashi Miike. Miike makes movies at a phenomenal speed, with some 80 video...
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For a musical that never got any respect — the New York Times review from the 1997 premiere is downright withering, as were most of the other Big Apple opinions —...
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Crave Crave is by Sarah Kane, the acclaimed British playwright who committed suicide at the age of 28, and the Catastrophic Theatre describes the work as a tour-de-force tone...
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The faces are eerily familiar. Grizzled and glowing like Rembrandt’s old men, infused with monumental fervor like Eisenstein’s revolutionary heroes, etched in...
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Months after his girlfriend dumped him, mopey Harmony (Bishop Allen musician Justin Rice) still wears her picture inside a locket around his neck. “She broke my...
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Debt Collectors It's a wonder the influential Swedish playwright (also painter, novelist, photographer and essayist) August Strindberg wrote any autobiography at all. After...
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David Schwimmer, better known as Ross from the television series Friends, wants to be a movie director. He has more than enough riches from years of residuals to open his own...
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Take five former members of Masquerade Theatre (Houston’s pre-eminent Broadway musical revival company), put them in the space formerly occupied by the zanies of Radio...
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Playwright Adam Rapp (Pulitzer Prize-finalist for Red Light Winter) can be an uncertain, quirky writer, somewhere between Sam Shepard with his grotesque way-out-west family...
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The physical production of Houston Grand Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos is ravishing. But just wait until you hear the sublime music and the singing.
At the turn of the 20th...
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By D.L. Groover and Jim Tommaney Published:
May 5, 2011
Come Back, Little Sheba Never has a bottle of whiskey perked up a play so much. Until Doc (Mack Hays) careens into the kitchen, screaming, taunting and threatening his wife...
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In Joel Drake Johnson’s play Four Places, siblings Warren and Ellen take their mom Peggy to her favorite restaurant without alcoholic Dad. Peggy has a secret, and they...
