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    February 17, 2012

    Happy Birthday Billie Joe: An American Idiot Turns 40

    "I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out"? Well, not quite...​Today, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day turns 40. Eighteen years ago, in the time known as 1994, he turned 22. Two weeks earlier than that, his band's major-label debut, Dookie, had hit store shelves. That album would go on to sel ... More >>

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    January 26, 2012

    A Nerd Is Forever

    Muscular, green and uglified, Constantine Maroulis impresses at the Alley as The Toxic Avenger.

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    January 23, 2012

    The Toxic Avenger: Pure Entertainment

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    January 19, 2012

    Spamalot

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    July 28, 2011

    Capsule Art Reviews: Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Don Juan in Hell

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    July 21, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Hairspray, The Mikado, Spring Awakening

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    April 28, 2011

    Memphis

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    March 17, 2011

    I Do! I Do!

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    March 10, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviews: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Billy Elliot, A Fertle Farewell, An Inspector Calls, Shards of Love

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    March 3, 2011

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Billy Elliot, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The War of the Worlds

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    February 17, 2011

    Billy Elliot

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    January 13, 2011

    God of Carnage

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    December 9, 2010

    A Tuna Christmas

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    November 25, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: The Drowsy Chaperone, The Little Dog Laughed, Three Bags Full

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    November 18, 2010

    The Drowsy Chaperone

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    October 28, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Madame Butterfly, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, Shrek the Musical

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    October 14, 2010

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Hairspray, Ghost, Sleuth,

    The setup: Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped after a long Off-B'way run, and brings broad humor, compelling music and top-drawer acting with it. The execution: The story line in the musical follows the movie pret ... More >>

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    July 22, 2010

    Rent

    This Broadway musical isn’t 5,026,600 minutes long, though you might wish it was

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    July 22, 2010

    Rent

    This Broadway musical isn’t 5,026,600 minutes long, though you might wish it was

  • Culture

    June 24, 2010
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    April 22, 2010

    Little House on the Prairie, the Musical

    Ma sure looks a lot like Laura, hmm

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    April 15, 2010

    Para Vivir

    In the Heights explodes off the stage.

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    April 9, 2010

    Kyle Beltran Drops Shakespeare For Rap In The Infectious In The Heights

    Photo copyright (C) Joan Marcus 2009Daniel Bolero, Natalie Toro and Kyle Beltran ​Kyle Beltran, who plays the lead role of Usnavi in the Broadway Across America version of the Tony Award and Grammy Award winning In the Heights, now showing at the Hobby Center, credits the musical for bringing "hip ... More >>

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    March 22, 2010

    TUTS Will Cum On, And It Will Feel The Noize

    ​TUTS has announced its selections for the upcoming season, and there's a bit of a surprise.No, we're not getting a Sondheim show. You know better than that.But among the shows is Rock of Ages, which is a campy -- and loud -- salute to `80s hair bands. (At the Tony Awards, Bret Michaels joined the ... More >>

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    March 11, 2010

    Hairspray

    Tracy's having a really big hair day

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    October 2, 2009

    Last Call For Art: "No Zoning," Oliver!, Il Tabarro And Pagliacci

    ​Opera in the Heights is presenting its final performance of Il Tabarro and Pagliacci this Saturday. The shows, by Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Adami respectively, premiered in the 1890s but still have a heck of a punch. Houston Press arts writer D. L. Groover said of the shows, "Puccini and Leonc ... More >>

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    October 1, 2009

    A Disaster Begins

    Playwright Ain Gordon blows us away

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    July 16, 2009
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    June 25, 2009

    The Wiz

    Ease into summer with the Ensemble Theatre’s latest production

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    June 25, 2009
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    June 11, 2009

    Cabaret

    Sally Bowles sings her heart out in a shiny new production

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    June 4, 2009

    Natural Disasters

    Two plays, two comedic takes on the damage people do to each other

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    May 21, 2009

    Fiddler on the Roof

    Oy vey, Tevye’s back!

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    May 14, 2009

    Grey Gardens

    Jackie O’s poor relations sure were a spunky bunch

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    February 12, 2009

    Bourne-Kylián-Walsh: A Masterful Mixed Repertoire

    The swans in Swan Lake are anatomically incorrect

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    January 8, 2009

    The Light in the Piazza

    Main Street Theater presents a Tony Award-winning musical about love, loss and, sigh, more love

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    January 1, 2009

    Spring Awakening

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

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    July 24, 2008

    Company

    The Tony Award-winning musical has been updated for a modern audience

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    June 26, 2008

    Ain’t Misbehavin’

    See the Harlem Renaissance come to life today at the Ensemble Theatre

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    May 15, 2008

    Tony Kushner

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright discusses his ability to portray the down-and-out

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    February 21, 2008

    Hello Dolly!

    Now how does that song go again?

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    January 10, 2008

    Jersey Boys

    The story behind Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons comes to the Hobby Center

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    January 3, 2008

    Frozen at Theater LaB Houston

    This Tony Award-nominated play examines revenge, grief and forgiveness

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    October 18, 2007

    Avenue Q

    The shady side of the street

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    October 4, 2007

    Dreamgirls

    TUTS brings a box-office smash back to the stage

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    August 23, 2007

    The Subject Was Roses

    Country Playhouse presents an award-winning war drama

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    August 16, 2007

    South Pacific

    Summer never sounded so sweet

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    July 12, 2007

    Side Show

    We are Siamese, if you please

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    November 5, 1998

    Cat Stats

    We are Siamese, if you please

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