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Two Houston companies stage different, but both worthwhile, productions of the same masterpiece.
By Jim J. Tommaney
The Tony Award-winning international hit Art, by acclaimed playwright Yasmina Reza, has been staged several times in the Houston area, with one... More >>
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By D.L. Groover
Shakespeare's magnificently malignant spider, the Duke of Gloucester, soon-to-be Richard III, as embodied by the equally magnificent Guy Roberts,... More >>
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Theatre Southwest mounts a ripping good show with Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden.
By D. L. Groover
Edward Albee's adaptation of Englishman Giles Cooper's snake-in-the-garden black comedy, Everything in the Garden, is, perhaps, the most... More >>
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Mildred's Umbrella presents the surrealistic Dead Man's Cell Phone.
By Jim J. Tommaney
In Dead Man's Cell Phone, a woman at a cafe rises to answer a cell phone when its owner does not, only to discover that the man has died. She... More >>
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Facsimile Mark Rothko paintings — not dialogue — pulse with life at the Alley.
By D.L. Groover
"What does it need?" ponders abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko (Scott Wentworth) in Red as he stares deeply into the unseen canvas that... More >>
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By D.L. Groover
Sailing to more immediate shores, but on a journey no less fascinating, Me, Myself & I, the newest work from Edward Albee, the dean and bad boy... More >>
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Main Street Theater presents theater of the highest order from a master playwright.
By D.L. Groover
By the final scene of the third installment of Tom Stoppard's magnificently rich triptych of 19th-century Russian revolutionaries, Coast of... More >>
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Houston Grand Opera presents a timeless classic in a handsome, moving production.
By D.L. Groover
After the storm and fury of Peter Grimes (1945), whose sea-tossed music and psychologically truthful and damaged characters were heralded as a... More >>
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Muscular, green and uglified, Constantine Maroulis impresses at the Alley as The Toxic Avenger.
By Jim J. Tommaney
Based on Lloyd Kaufman's 1984 cult-movie classic, the musical version of The Toxic Avenger arrives at the Alley, revamped somewhat and with... More >>
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The great playwright's trilogy is a don't-miss Houston theater event.
By D.L. Groover
Stop reading! Put down the Houston Press right now — this review can wait — and quickly call Main Street Theater, or go to its Web... More >>
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Wrapping up Houston's holiday shows.
By Jim J. Tommaney
The holidays have brought a cornucopia of theatrical splendors to Houston, and the choice is rich indeed. Humor reigns supreme, and gifted... More >>
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At Main Street Theater and Company OnStage, family strife just in time for the season.
By D.L. Groover
Where would theater be without family? This great fount of inspiration, conflict and character building (or warping) flows from drama's very... More >>
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Houston Grand Opera's Fidelio bursts forth with thrilling theater.
By D.L. Groover
Beethoven's only opera (1805, revised 1814), Fidelio, is a mighty ode to joy, political freedom and conjugal bliss. In coarse hands, the work... More >>
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The Alley puts on a good old-fashioned Horton Foote classic.
By D.L. Groover
You know immediately, even before Horton Foote's gently warm 1989 comedy Dividing the Estate begins, what the characters want — it's that... More >>
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Catastrophic Theatre fave Mickle Maher mounts another success.
By David Theis
When Troy Schulze's character Bernard ambles onto the tiny stage of Catastrophic Theatre's "micro-theater" to open There Is a Happiness That... More >>
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The Back Porch Players present a startling, sterling production.
By D.L. Groover
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who wrote Topdog/Underdog, Venus and Fucking A, has never been known as a shrinking violet.... More >>
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HB showcases three grand works by twentieth-century choreographers.
By Mandy Oaklander
Dance season is back, and Houston Ballet is renewing three grand works from our cultural past. Return of the Masters features rare jewels from a... More >>
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Music Box Theater brings big-city, high-style cabaret to Houston.
By D.L. Groover
"What good is sitting alone in your room. Come hear the music play. Life is a cabaret, old chum, come to the cabaret."
That was solid advice... More >>
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Fresh blood gives fresh life to The Taming of the Shrew and Othello.
By David Theis
I hate to say this, but summer trips to Miller Outdoor Theatre's — and UH's — Houston Shakespeare Festival had come to have a whiff... More >>
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Tamarie Cooper returns to poke mostly gentle fun at the U.S. and delivers a new national anthem.
By Jim Tommaney
The talented Tamarie Cooper opens the latest in a series of annual musical extravaganzas — this one rife with patriotism — to enchant... More >>
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The A.D. Players tackle Jane Austen's classic tale of love in the English countryside.
By D.L. Groover
In Emma, A.D. Players' stylishly elegant production of Jane Austen's sublime comedy of manners, actress Sarah Cooksey portrays Austen's heroine... More >>
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A jukebox musical entrances audiences at the Ensemble.
By D.L. Groover
Want a show that's cool enough for these humid nights of summer? Want a show that's also hot enough to steam up the windows? Three talented... More >>
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Michelle Britton leads the romping in this comedy at Main Street Theater.
By David Theis
Blithe Spirit director Claire Hart-Palumbo must've had her hands full just a week before the play opened, when she had to recast its lead... More >>
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Higgins makes over Eliza, and the Alley adds its fine touch to Pygmalion in a glorious production.
By D.L. Groover
George Bernard Shaw's most convivial play — he subtitled it a "Romance in Five Acts" — Pygmalion takes on class consciousness with a... More >>
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The Alley Theatre debuts a strong work from Rajiv Joseph.
By David Theis
The Monster at the Door, in its world premiere at the Alley Theatre, begins innocently enough. An artist named Maya (Portia) arrives at the... More >>
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HGO's Ariadne, an opera about opera, is both serious and funny.
By D.L. Groover
The physical production of Houston Grand Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos is ravishing. But just wait until you hear the sublime music and the... More >>
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The Alley's Amadeus imagines relationship between two musicians.
By D.L. Groover
In Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, his fanciful, dramatic, Tony- and Oscar-winning look at genius vs. ho-hum, the art of mediocrity gets center stage.... More >>
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Stages' Yankee Tavern lacks a dramatic core.
By David Theis
Yankee Tavern opens in a seedy New York City bar that time and customers have forgotten. The bar's fresh-faced owner, Adam (Adam Gibbs), looks... More >>
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Just like gin, this play will sneak up on you.
By D.L. Groover
Contrary to the findings of the recent U.S. census, the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) is merrily alive and doing quite well. In plays such... More >>
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It's no holds barred in this powerful Alley production.
By David Theis
In outline, Tracy Letts's August: Osage County sounds rather derivative. It's an intense family drama featuring a frightening, drug-addled... More >>
