A Republican assemblyman from New York, Julius Weishan Lee, Chinese-American, has given an inspirational talk that has gone viral and brought him... More >>

The title of David Mamet's last successful play is a four-letter word. Race. Surprise? Mamet is the Shakespeare of the scatological, the poet of... More >>

Strapping, handsome and near naked, actor Jay Sullivan is sculpted under the white hot light of a medical school lecture hall. His immense and... More >>

Star Light Hail, Nina Stemme, goddess of opera! Hail, Houston Grand Opera for bringing her here! Hail, maestro Patrick Summers for a thrilling... More >>

While we are thrillingly led "once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" in Main Street Theater's sterling production of Shakespeare's... More >>

Anyone lucky enough to catch Guy Roberts at Houston's Main Street Theater last year, knows of his chameleon-like properties. In the Tom Stoppard... More >>

Audiences may know Aaron Sorkin best from television's top-rated and Emmy-winning The West Wing, but he blazed across Broadway's theatrical sky... More >>

Even if a fledgling dancer or a budding dance enthusiast has never seen a production of The Rite of Spring, he or she has heard the Igor... More >>

The pedigree for the musical Catch Me If You Can, based on the somewhat fictionalized biography of Frank Abagnale, Jr., security and fraud guru... More >>

'If we could all just sit down together at one big table and..." Eisenhower-era housewife Bev (Elizabeth Bunch) doesn't finish her thought at... More >>

Martin Luther, the radical father of the Protestant reformation, taught theology at Wittenberg University, Germany's most prestigious institute... More >>

As soon as the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-seller premiered on Broadway in 1927, American musical... More >>

From the magical moment when Cathy Rigby catapults through the Darling nursery room windows, trailing glittering pixie dust in her jet stream,... More >>

Once you've had your fill of Sugar Plums, Messiahs and Scrooges, there's always room for more presents, so... Panto Mother Goose The latest... More >>

When Cathy Rigby was a gymnast, winning world titles and representing the United States in the Olympics, the sport was all she focused on. When... More >>

I Capuleti e i Montecchi You can hear the haste in Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues (1830), whose libretto is a maladroit... More >>

Mother Courage and Her Children is acclaimed as Bertolt Brecht's best work, often described as an antiwar play but more accurately ­labeled... More >>

Halloween is upon us, and I can't think of any better place to celebrate the spooky weekend than at Country Playhouse with its scary double... More >>

It's so rare when a new play makes an impression that when it does, you feel like you're walking on air. Pearl Cleage's romantic comedy, The... More >>

The relatively new Black Lab Theatre brings us Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's comedy Boom, which is both contemporary and futuristic. The play presents... More >>

As his first full-length ballet, Madame Butterfly is Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch's calling card. Taking its cue from the... More >>

Whatever happened to David Mamet? The testosterone-fueled playwright — responsible for Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Glengarry Glen Ross,... More >>

Check out our slideshow, The Year in Houston Theater. Well, we guess it's sort of official. Last month, influential money magazine Forbes... More >>

HAMLET For the Houston Shakespeare Festival, director Steve Pickering sets the world's most famous play in Edwardian Denmark, using WWI as... More >>

For the 15th year, Theatre Southwest presents its annual array of one-act plays, giving playwrights, directors and actors an opportunity to prove... More >>

Jim Tommaney's Edge Theatre has given us the alpha and omega of Edward Albee (Tommaney also covers theater for the Houston Press). In February,... More >>

You can't tell a book by its title. Nor a musical. The somber-sounding Sanctified suggests a deep religiosity but delivers a rollicking... More >>

If Michael Frayn's peerless farce Noises Off! isn't the funniest play ever written, I don't know what is. And if this isn't one of the Alley... More >>

With American Falls, new playwright Miki Johnson has captured lightning in a bottle. Catastrophic Theatre likens it to Thornton Wilder's Our... More >>