Subject: Paul Hope

• Something Old, Something New

  The Alley drips decadence with Hay Fever.

  March 9, 2000

• Naked Laughter

  March 3, 1994

• Press Picks

  July 7, 1994

• Stage Notes, Hate Crimes & Misdemeanors

  July 27, 1995

• Oh, Carol!

  December 7, 1995

• Press Picks

  July 4, 1996

• Christmas Treats

  December 11, 1997

• Sardines and Skivvies

  May 28, 1998

• Houston's Sondheim Drought Won't End Anytime Soon

  Photo by CarbonNYCTUTS has announced its musical choices for the 2009-10 season; the information is embargoed until Sunday, so we can't divulge it, but let's just say there are (as usual) no surprises.If you're a Sondheim fan, you're out of luck. Not that we would expect TUTS to put on any Sondheim but, you know, hope springs eternal.It's clear: Houston is a bad, bad place to be a Sondheim fan. Years can go by without a production, and even then it's typically Sweeney Todd, which we've seen, man

  March 12, 2009

• Sondheim, Con Men and Certain Death

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  March 19, 2009

• He's The Man Who Came to Dinner

  March 5, 2009

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Legally Blonde the Musical, The Man Who Saved New Orleans, The Odd Couple, Puttin' on the Ritz

  February 19, 2009

• Killing Us Softly

  The Alley's dated Arsenic & Old Lace should take a dose of its own medicine

  July 13, 2000

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, A Murder of Crows, Onegin, Pal Joey, Unbeatable: A Bold New Musical

  September 11, 2008

• The Unexpected Guest Will Keep You Guessing Until the Very End

  Who Knows Whodunit

  July 24, 2008

• Coal Miser A Christmas Carol

  Everyone's favorite grump returns

  December 13, 2007

• Arsenic and Old Lace

  October 18, 2007

• Death on the Nile

  Agatha Christie's memorable characters make great company

  July 19, 2007

• Houston Ballet Premieres

  Three Houston Ballet premieres make welcome additions to the repertory

  May 31, 2007

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  May 17, 2007

• The Clean House

  The Alley's latest production lives up to the hype

  May 10, 2007

• COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE

  How a theater on the verge of insolvency has reversed its fortunes

  September 28, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  July 27, 2006

• Family Tradition

  Dance through the Land of Nod at The Nutcracker

  December 1, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  September 15, 2005

• Best Fund-Raiser

  September 23, 2004

• Black Death

  At the Alley, an old man dies, and everyone's a suspect

  July 8, 2004

• Rome If You Want To

  The highbrow thespians at the Alley take on a lowbrow musical

  May 27, 2004

• A Funny Thing

  The Alley Theatre mixes it up

  May 13, 2004

• Raising the Bard

  Gregory Boyd's brave, inventive direction of Twelfth Night makes Shakespeare new again

  March 4, 2004

• English Muffin

  The Foreigner is right at home at the Alley

  July 31, 2003

• It's All Relative

  Alan Ayckbourn knows that one play's bit player is another's star

  April 25, 2002

• Devil's Advocate

  The Alley becomes a vocal disciple in Shaw's morality play against religious hypocrisy

  May 31, 2001

• Bawdiness and Brains

  Tom Stoppard's Travesties offers both

  June 3, 1999

• Dyssing Christmas

  Why theater critics get grouchy in December, and a review of the audience at 12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Christmas

  December 23, 1993

• Houston Shakespeare Festival

  July 30, 2009

• Capsule Stage Reviews: The Elixir of Love, Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, The Rocky Horror Show

  October 29, 2009