Theatrical Plays

Capsule Stage Reviews: Memory House, The Mountaintop, Private Lives, Ubu Roi (King Ubu), 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

Large Animal Games

Miss Julie

Race

Long Live King Hedley

Each character gets a center-stage aria in this most operatic of August Wilson's cycle plays.

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)

Traveling Light

100 Creatives 2012: Carl Williams

What He Does: The most famous work of award-winning playwright Carl Williams is a comedy called When Bullfrogs Sing Opera. The play centers on two sisters, one of whom left her little hometown of Bullfrog Waller for the big city and never looked back, and the other, who unexpectedly shows up just as ... More >>

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: 2nd Annual Festival of Comedy, American Buffalo, Who Was That Masked Man?, Sylvia

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The Adventures of Arthur Ignatius in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll puts Arthur Conan Doyle down the rabbit hole

The Glass Menagerie

The Landing Theatre Company is starting at the top

The Flu Season

Let the darkness in with Mildred's Umbrella's production of Will Eno's story of crazy love

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 >>

2009 Free Night of Theater

Get your freak on (stagewise, that is)

Capsule Stage Reviews: Southern Rapture, The House of the Spirits, Night of the Giant, Seven Guitars

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

Stages Repertory Theatre: Southern Rapture

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

Seven's Heaven

Ensemble Theatre draws on an American icon for its latest production

Recession Or Not, Pasadena's Getting Some New Theater

Byron Hagan and Marshall Hainley​Nobody told the Red Door Theater Company there was a recession going on. The plucky theater troupe launched their group earlier this year in, of all theater-starved places, Pasadena. With true Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney/"Let's Put on a Show" spunk, Artistic ... More >>

Classical Theatre Company: Antigone

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Classical Theatre Company: The Triumph of Love

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The Man Who Saved New Orleans

Thomas Meloncon and the Ensemble Theatre stage a world premiere

Translations

Be transported to Ireland in all its glory

Setting the Stage

2007–2008 promises a year of provocative productions

Believe the HYPE

They'll Albee Good

Growing in Stages

New places, faces and ideas have transformed Houston's theater scene

Season's Greetings

With summer almost over, the theater scene's heating up

Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?

Certainly not the two directors for the Alley's upcoming double bill

Albee's Law

Edward Albee takes Sturgeon's Law and revises it a bit

Best Actor

John Feltch

Sweeney's a Sweet Success

An American in London

Far from Over

Never mind the drubbing critics gave Edward Albee's All Over. Stages is bringing it back.

An Old Mystery

The Alley finds little new in Angel Street, but that doesn't stop it from being entertaining

Female Trouble

Jar the Floor takes a hard look at the ties that bind, and strangle, mothers and daughters

For Love --or Money

Main Street's Miser isn't as rich as it could be

Lonely, Times Three

S R O

Tangled Jungle

The Alley wrestles with Bertolt Brecht, and nobody emerges a winner

Starting Over

Can self-described "bad boy" Rob Bundy revive a flagging Stages?

Love's Labors

Stage Notes

Making Plans, Having Fun

Chilly Scenes of Pinter

Stages shines in three playlets by Britain's master of the enigmatic

Soul Music

Blue Window plays dialogue like a gorgeous, and sad, melody

War Within a War

The Ensemble explores the shades of racism in Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play

Playing the Blues

Playwright August Wilson talks about the birth of Ma Rainey