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The Day the Music Hall Died

Topol Likes It Hot: Fiddler On The Roof Puts On The Sizzle For Two Weeks In Houston

The most amazing thing in seeing the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof now at the Hobby Center is when 73-year-old Topol comes out on the stage at the start to huge applause and somehow keeps going for the next three hours -- singing and dancing as he plays Tevye, the poor Jewish father trying to ... More >>

Spring Awakening

There’s sex on the brain — and in the theater — in this raunchy romp through adolescence

White Christmas

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Hello Dolly!

Now how does that song go again?

It’s Almost Midnight

Willie Mae Sallie’s musical play has an uplifting message

The Sleeping Beauty

Dominic Walsh presents a dark beauty

Dreamgirls

TUTS brings a box-office smash back to the stage

Spiraling into Motion

TUTS brings a box-office smash back to the stage

Image of the Week

Rasmi Raj

Witch Way Is Up

Something Wicked this way comes

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Something Wicked this way comes

Food Fight

The Benihana-themed Cookin' is a real whack job

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Benihana-themed Cookin' is a real whack job

Best Pre- or Post-Theater Restaurant

The Benihana-themed Cookin' is a real whack job

Brutal Bronx

More than three decades after Indian, not much has changed

Bun Fun

Artista

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Cabaret

Sally Bowles sings her heart out in a shiny new production

Barbarians At The Cabaret Gates

The all-time highlight of the night was when an older man began belting out a "Willkommen" to make anyone proud. Problem was, he wasn't on stage, but was sitting in the upper mezzanine -- part of the audience. Theater Etiquette 101 hit a new low at last night's entertaining performance of ... More >>

The Producers

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Theatre Under the Stars: The Color Purple

Just like Miss Celie, last year's canceled show finds its way

Ars Lyrica: A Musical Offering

Houston ensemble specializes in kicking it very old school

1909-2009: The Great Collaborators of the Ballets Russes

The Dominic Walsh Dance Theater re-creates century-old classics

Moving Day For Mary Poppins Isn't Exactly Supercalifragetc.

Photo by Margaret Downing​The Mary Poppins house was brought in by truck and moved into the Hobby Center in two big pieces starting Wednesday morning. First the top was suspended from the ceiling and then the bottom slid in under that. It was a majestic sight, a feat of well-practiced enginee ... More >>

TUTS' Sound of Music: The Nuns Will Be Singing But Thank God They Don't Have to Tap Dance

Photo by Joan MarcusShe can climb ev'ry mountain, but she can't tap-dance​It's been years since Roy Hamlin, associate artistic director at Theatre Under the Stars, has had anything to do with The Sound of Music -- not since his high school days when he was playing Uncle Max.Now he gets to direct i ... More >>

A Christmas Carol

The musical version of the holiday standard means one thing: Scrooge sings!

The Sound of Music

TUTS sings, "Do, re, mi too"

Amahl and the Night Visitors

The Sandra Organ Dance Company offers a different Christmas ballet

Mary Karr

Inprint invites a renowned/reluctant memoirist

Cirque Dreams: Illumination

Get dazzled with the magic of Cirque Dreams

Camelot

Don't worry about what the King's doing, what are Guenevere and Lancelot up to?

South Pacific

Get swept away on Rodgers and Hammerstein's lush score

Kyle Beltran Drops Shakespeare For Rap In The Infectious In The Heights

Photo copyright (C) Joan Marcus 2009Daniel Bolero, Natalie Toro and Kyle Beltran ​Kyle Beltran, who plays the lead role of Usnavi in the Broadway Across America version of the Tony Award and Grammy Award winning In the Heights, now showing at the Hobby Center, credits the musical for bringing "hip ... More >>

Masquerade Theatre: Jane Eyre

Is the modest governess in Charlotte Bronte's classic tale "strong enough to love"?

Menopause, the Musical

Hot flashes and cold sweats - yeah, that sounds like fodder for a Broadway show

Wicked Orchestra Seats For Only 25 Bucks? If You're Feeling Lucky

Cheap way to see a hit​Wicked, the Broadway musical that's become extremely popular among tween and teen girls, is coming to Houston, and -- thanks to the economy, we guess -- Broadway Across America is going to a cheap-seat method that could be a lifesaver for parents.Each night before a performa ... More >>

Wicked

The other side of the rainbow is wicked fun

Wicked: Back Stage Where All Sorts of Things Are Flying About

The Hobby Center is far better than the Music Hall​An enormous dragon hung over the front of the Hobby Center's stage yesterday -- it took 10 hours of work to reassemble it and place it there on Monday.Below, workers were stringing cable, putting hardware and software into its final places, all pr ... More >>

Rent

This Broadway musical isn’t 5,026,600 minutes long, though you might wish it was

Rent

This Broadway musical isn’t 5,026,600 minutes long, though you might wish it was

The Drowsy Chaperone

This Broadway musical isn’t 5,026,600 minutes long, though you might wish it was

The Best New Year's Eve Shows In Houston This Year

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>

West Side Story

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>

Cats

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>

Songs for April

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>

New York - Songs for April

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>

Mamma Mia!

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>

Jekyll and Hyde

​Reckless Kelly, House of Blues: They may originally be from Oregon, but having moved to Texas and occupied it for nearly 15 years, we'll give Kelly a pass as honorary Texans. And if you don't already have plans, a four-pack of tickets is only $20. So save some dough, call some friends and get ... More >>