Theater Reviews

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dollhouse, Henry V, The Night of the Iguana, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

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

Capsule Stage Reviews: Broadway at the Box, Knock Me a Kiss, The Lion in Winter, The Young Man from Atlanta

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Boys in the Band, Girls Only — the Secret Comedy of Women, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Submission, The Young Man from Atlanta

Capsule Stage Reviews: Assassins, Body Awareness, Fleaven, Murdering Marlowe, The Oldest Profession,

Capsule Stage Reviews: Miss Julie, Getting Sara Married, The Glass Menagerie, Life Could Be a Dream, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

Capsule Stage Reviews: Leading Ladies, Life Could Be a Dream, Next Fall, Our Town

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Little Shop of Horrors, The Psychic, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Travelsty

Sing Me a Story: Five Rockers Whose Work We'd Like To See On Broadway

Rocks Off has had musicals on the brain lately. Between Once, featuring music by The Swell Season, dominating the Tony Awards and Rock of Ages, featuring music by the cream of the '80s hair-metal crop, hitting theaters tomorrow it's been a pretty good week for musicals that aren't cut from the tradi ... More >>

Back Porch Players: Election Day

Emerging Choreographers Showcase

Motionhouse: Scattered: A Meteor Shower of Unlikely Moments

Capsule Stage Reviews: Extremities, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Next to Normal, Rum and Vodka

Capsule Stage Reviews: Menopause The Musical, Oscar in the Box, See Rock City & Other Destinations, The Tempest

Fresh Ink Reading Series: Simulacrum

Capsule Stage Reviews: Below the Belt, Cactus Flower, Crimes of the Heart, Cuttin' Up, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dinner with Friends, Late Nite Catechism, Oscar in the Box, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

Seeing Double

Identical Twins Ryan and Austin Jacobs Are Superb in Edward Albee's Newest Play, Me, Myself and I

The setup: Me, Myself and I, the newest work from Edward Albee, the dean and bad boy of American playwrights, arrives from Edge Theatre and director Jim J. Tommaney, and this is cause for celebration (Tommaney is also a theater critic for the Houston Press). An absurdist play with all the trademark ... More >>

Play On

Cinderella

Capsule Stage Reviews: Cinderella, A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage @ 1959, Dear Santa, My Fair Lady, Oliver Twist

Fresh Ink Reading Series: Elsewhere

Friday Night: Cage The Elephant & Manchester Orchestra At Verizon

Photos by Matthew KeeverCage the Elephant​Cage the Elephant, Manchester Orchestra Verizon Wireless Theater May 27, 2011 Cage the Elephant are nuts. Like their music or not, you're guaranteed to have a good time at any of their live performances. The band's energy level is unparalleled by alm ... More >>

Primus

Last Night: Donald Glover & Childish Gambino At Warehouse Live

Photos by Allison Wagoner​Donald Glover/Childish Gambino Warehouse Live May 3, 2011 WTF is "nerdcore"? That's what we went out to discover last night at Warehouse Live at the combination comedy and rap show performed by the same dude, Donald Glover, whose rap style as Childish Gambino has bee ... More >>

Frosty the Snowman

Bluefinger: The Bald Truth

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

Eve Ensler's The Good Body

Bravo for Breakfast

Main Street Theater mounts a moving new work by a local playwright.

Pecos Bill

Saddle up, buckaroo

Incorruptible

Black and white mix into a muddle of grays in this unsaintly comedy

Moon Over Buffalo

Texas Repertory Theatre's play about a repertory theatre

The Wager

Come on, I double-triple down dare you

Silly Alley

The 39 Steps turns a Hitchcock drama into hilarious farce.

Rehearsal for Murder

Will the killer exit stage left, please?

Capsule Stage Reviews: A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, Margo Veil: An Entertainment, Life Is Happy and Sad

Bernardo Cubría Is Counting The Minutes Until Tonight's Premiere Of Down, Boy

​New York actor and former Houstonian Bernardo Cubría is starting to get a little nervous right about now -- he's just hours away from the staged reading of his play Down, Boy by Wordsmyth Theater Company. At the first reading, earlier this year, he was, ah, anxious. "It's like watching your ... More >>

Little Shop of Horrors

That's a hell of a case of indigestion

Capsule Stage Reviews: Southern Rapture, Night of the Giant, Oliver!, Seven Guitars

Capsule Stage Reviews: Grease, Manon, Mud, On the Town, The Wayside Motor Inn

4th Annual Debbie Allen Dance Institute Houston

So You Think You Can Dance?

Capsule Stage Reviews: Ashes to Africa, The Heiress, Time of My Life, The Wedding Singer, You Can't Take It With You

The 12 Ways of Christmas

The Ensemble Theatre mounts a show with a seasonal message

Cat, Mouse, Bird and Boy and Veteran Silas

Bold first steps from a brand-new theater company

See Her Shine

It Takes Heart

Playmaker

Houston's Bo Eason was among the NFL's toughest tacklers. But he takes his hardest hits in writing about his very intimate House of Pain.

Kicking A

With the world premiere of Fucking A, Infernal Bridegroom Productions may have outgrown its seedy past, but it hasn't forgotten it

An American in London