Theater Reviews

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)

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

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 >>

Cinderella

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 >>

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

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 >>

Fresh Ink Reading Series: Elsewhere

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 >>

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 >>

The Lost Tribe

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

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 >>

Frosty the Snowman

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 >>

Bluefinger: The Bald Truth

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

Eve Ensler's The Good Body

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

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?

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 >>

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

Stages Repertory Theatre: Southern Rapture

Stages presents the funny side of the culture war in Southern Rapture

4th Annual Debbie Allen Dance Institute Houston

So You Think You Can Dance?

Spring Awakening

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

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

Bold first steps from a brand-new theater company

They'll Albee Good

Bold first steps from a brand-new theater company

It Takes Heart

Bold first steps from a brand-new theater company

Springtime for Mel

Brooks's latest Producers is flawed, but it's better than the first

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

Where Angels Fear to Tread

When Kilgore College staged a gay play, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas

An American in London

When Kilgore College staged a gay play, administrators learned there were limits to a liberal education in East Texas