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Steve Morrison probably never knew what hit him that April afternoon in 2008. After the 52-year-old swimming-pool company owner eased off the brakes of his green Saturn and...
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When you're borrowing ideas, you might as well borrow from the best. That's exactly what Claude-Michel Schšnberg did when he used Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly as...
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Drift away into a jazzy bygone era as Bayou City Concert Musicals performs the greatest hits of one of America's music icons in Let's Misbehave: The Early Cole Porter. This is...
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Skeez 181's art career is an anomaly: Eighteen years as a talented artist have yielded countless canvases, commissions and sculptures, but zero gallery shows. "I'm the type of...
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Tom Green is taking his comedy offline. The original MTV prankster-turned-Internet talk-show host is returning to the stage. "I've done stand-up over the years off and on," he...
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Houston three, New York zero: Recently, longtime Big Apple actors Kim Tobin, Georgi Silverman and Rick Silverman moved to Houston, where they found a ripe environment in which...
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It's February, and on Galveston Island that means one thing: Mardi Gras. The annual mega-party kicks off this week with celebrations across the city. More than 250,000 people...
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Steve Miller, the director of Texas Repertory Theatre's production of I Hate Hamlet, says the 1990 farce has the "perfect recipe for some wonderful theatricality to happen...
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For millions of devoted listeners, the week just isn't complete unless they've heard the soothing vocal intonations of Garrison Keillor, as he hosts the radio variety program A...
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Theater LaB, a company known for its on-the-edge comedies and dramas about the struggles of contemporary life, is tackling Brad Fraser's True Love Lies. The show examines what...
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If you can't stand the heat...you know the rest. So do the five women sweating away in the airless kitchen of Don Wilson Glenn's American Menu. Inside the small-town diner in...
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Writers Laurie Clements Lambeth and Greg Oaks share their work during today's edition of the Nano Fiction Reading Series. Lambeth, currently at work on her second book of...
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Come face-to-face with history at "The Forgotten Faces of Fort Craig" at the African-American Museum. Presented by the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, the exhibit includes...
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Photographer/artist Earlie Hudnall Jr. and artist/poet Naomi Polk chronicle the rise — and recent fall — of Houston's Fourth Ward in the art exhibit "Moments,...
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Twelve-year-old Miguel just can't keep quiet. He's a chatterbox, a bocón. In the play Bocón, written by Lisa Loomer and directed by Talento Bilingüe...
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Local author/illustrator Jan Bethancourt has the right idea: We should all Eat Chocolate with Breakfast. The book, which Bethancourt wrote and illustrated, encourages women to...
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Playwright Greg Kotis is known for mixing dark comedy with socially relevant themes. That was certainly the case with Kotis's most famous work, Urinetown the Musical. And it's...
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Three excellent films from three different decades are on the schedule this weekend for the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation, making its first-ever...
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Suzan-Lori Parks's Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog is the fast-paced story of two African-American brothers who have been pitted against each other since childhood....
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If you have an "I want it all!" attitude toward your entertainment, the Gentleman Jack Art, Beats + Lyrics Tour is just for you. "It's not your typical fine-art event," says...
