Jason Nodler

Capsule Stage Reviews: Race, Spamalot, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Warrior Class

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, Mauritius, Waiting for Godot

Capsule Stage Reviews: Broke-ology, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Waiting for Godot

Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, Broke-ology, Company, Jersey Boys, Waiting for Godot

Capsule Stage Reviews: Beebo Brinker's Chronicles, Fleaven, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Murdering Marlowe,

Fleaven

Waiting for Godot

American Falls

A dark, funny new work from Catastrophic Theatre goes behind the white picket fences.

American Falls

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Endgame, The Seagull

The Magnificent Endgame Gets Magnificent Treatment from Catastrophic Theatre

The setup: Who else in Houston are you going to trust to do justice to the creepy dysfunction and blasted-earth absurdity of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett, than that theater company of raging imagination and utter theatricality, Catastrophic? If Waiting for Godot (1952) is his maste ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Fruitcakes, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Nutcracker

Capsule Stage Reviews: Anna Bella Eema, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, The Grand Manner, Museum of Dysfunction IV, The Nutcracker

Capsule Stage Reviews: Cosi fan tutte, Dear Santa, Speed-the-Plow, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, When the Day Met the Night (a moosehunt experience)

Capsule Stage Reviews: Crave, Debt Collectors, Essential Self Defense, Jekyll and Hyde

This Year's MasterMinds Are....(With Video)

Once again the Houston Press is trying to lend a hand and give a shout to deserving nonprofit groups and creative people in town with our MasterMind awards, which not only include high honor but, perhaps even more important, a $2,000 check. Last year the winners were Opera Vista; Reginald Adams, fo ... More >>

Friday Night: Daniel Johnston's 50th Birthday At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Jim Bricker​Daniel Johnston Fitzgerald's January 14, 2011 Check out our slideshow from Friday night's birthday festivities. News had already reached Aftermath before we arrived at Fitzgerald's for Daniel Johnston's 50th birthday concert that he could only get through two and a half ... More >>

Bluefinger: The Bald Truth

Our Art Attack blogger on the slippery role of editor/actor.

Capsule Stage Reviews: Five Guys Named Moe, The Hollow, Hunter Gatherers, The Mousetrap

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, Hunter Gatherers

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Designated Mourner, Intelligence-Slave, Young Frankenstein,

Capsule Stage Reviews: La Bohème, Our Late Night, Speech and Debate

Capsule Stage Reviews: The New Century, Our Late Night, Speech and Debate

The World's Most Unfortunately Dressed Bank Robber

The FBI has put out the alert for a new bank robber, one who knocked off a Memorial Drive Wachovia and a west-side Bank of America last week.This is not just any bank robber, though. This dude has style. A very outdated, ridiculous style.Photo courtesy FBI​The FBI is calling him the "Sweatin' to t ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Hunter Gatherers, Little Women

Industrial Icon Martin Atkins Knows From Touring

Road Warrior

Pixies Founder To Develop A Musical In Houston

Photo by Free-ersHey...There's news for Houston fans of the Pixies: The heart of the band, Frank Black (going by his name Charles Thompson), is going to be working with the Catastrophic Theatre to produce a "musical play" based on his album Bluefinger. (Which was released under the name Black Franci ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: But Not Goodbye, A Fertle Holiday, The Gifts of Christmas, The Nutcracker, Panto Cinderella, Santaland Diaries, Spirits to Enforce, Twelve Ways of Christmas

I Come From Alabama With A Shofar On My Knee

The Wayback Machine: 15, Ten and Five Years Ago in Houston Music

The Wayback Machine

Best Special Effects

Infernal Bridegroom Productions' Phaedra's Love

Racket

Great moments at the Press's Music Awards Showcase

Letters

Something Else by the Kinks

IBP and the Starmaker prove you can't stop the music

T-6: The Evolutionalia

The latest installment of the Tamalalia is more intoxicating than a round of Sauza shots

Irrelevant Reverence

Dismissing artistic pretension

Unhappy Days

Infernal Bridegroom's youth and spirit work against it in Beckett's dark, existential work

Scripted Responses

Speaking in the clichés of language-study tapes, the characters in The Danube mourn the loss of life's poetry

Getting Sauza-ed

Notes from the (corporate-sponsored) underground

Letters

Absurd Plays for the Holidays

Letters

Bad to Brecht, Vile to Weill

Press Picks

Press Picks

Wins and Losses

Guys and Dolls gets a respectful revival, while Our Town is sent to its grave

Lit by Lightning

Woyzeck is filled with the short, sharp and shocking

Press Picks

Dancing Fool

Swinging and swaying at the Forties Follies