Top Houston Theater News
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Everyone is battling for his own private piece of the action in this play at the Alley.A Republican assemblyman from New York, Julius Weishan Lee, Chinese-American, has given an inspirational talk that has gone viral and brought him... More >>
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In Race, at Ensemble, David Mamet blowtorches our perceptions.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 >>
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Jay Sullivan finds the beauty in The Elephant Man.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 >>
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Houston Grand Opera's Tristan und Isolde is a feast for the ears.Star Light Hail, Nina Stemme, goddess of opera! Hail, Houston Grand Opera for bringing her here! Hail, maestro Patrick Summers for a thrilling... More >>
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In this latest coproduction from Main Street Theater, Shakespeare's war play springs to magnificent life.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 >>
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Guy Roberts returns to Houston in a co-production with Main Street Theater of Shakespeare's heroic blood, guts and mud epic Henry V.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 >>
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A Few Good Men at the Alley delivers strong performances while showing the perils of unsupervised power.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 >>
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Stanton Welch's production magnifies the tribal elements, expanding on the original's provocative elements.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 >>
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Catch Me If You Can has loads of action, but the story's a little thin.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 >>
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Love it or list it.'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 >>
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Where he is an undeclared (of course) major in this wonderfully mind-bending work.Martin Luther, the radical father of the Protestant reformation, taught theology at Wittenberg University, Germany's most prestigious institute... More >>
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HGO's production of Showboat lacks substance.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 >>
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60-year-old soars in Peter Pan.From the magical moment when Cathy Rigby catapults through the Darling nursery room windows, trailing glittering pixie dust in her jet stream,... More >>
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This year's holiday play offerings.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 >>
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Cathy Rigby makes it clear that it's not only boys who don't have to grow up.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 >>
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Tartuffe, I Capulet e i MontecchiI 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 >>
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The University of Houston mounts Bertolt Brecht’s most famous play — and stays true to his intent.Mother Courage and Her Children is acclaimed as Bertolt Brecht's best work, often described as an antiwar play but more accurately labeled... More >>
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Country Playhouse gets in the Halloween spirit.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 >>
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The Ensemble Theatre opens the season with a bang and a laugh.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 >>
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Black Lab Theatre's futuristic new show is a triumph.The relatively new Black Lab Theatre brings us Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's comedy Boom, which is both contemporary and futuristic. The play presents... More >>
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Houston Ballet mounts Stanton Welch's sumptuous first full-length ballet.As his first full-length ballet, Madame Butterfly is Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch's calling card. Taking its cue from the... More >>
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The Alley Theatre's production is funny — and forgettable.Whatever happened to David Mamet? The testosterone-fueled playwright — responsible for Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Glengarry Glen Ross,... More >>
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From actors to designers, directors to technicians, the city's brightest talent gets its due.Check out our slideshow, The Year in Houston Theater. Well, we guess it's sort of official. Last month, influential money magazine Forbes... More >>
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The Houston Shakespeare Festival serves up a tragedy and a comedy in fine form.HAMLET For the Houston Shakespeare Festival, director Steve Pickering sets the world's most famous play in Edwardian Denmark, using WWI as... More >>
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Gifted playwrights, directors and actors entertain at 15th Annual Festival of Originals.For the 15th year, Theatre Southwest presents its annual array of one-act plays, giving playwrights, directors and actors an opportunity to prove... More >>
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Edge Theatre mounts Edward Albee's haunting one-act play.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 >>
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The somber-sounding Sanctified is a rollicking good time.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 >>
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The Alley Theatre stages a silly valentine to theater — with plenty of slamming doors.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 >>
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A dark, funny new work from Catastrophic Theatre goes behind the white picket fences.With American Falls, new playwright Miki Johnson has captured lightning in a bottle. Catastrophic Theatre likens it to Thornton Wilder's Our... More >>
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Each character gets a center-stage aria in this most operatic of August Wilson's cycle plays.Of all contemporary American playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson, who died in 2005, is perhaps the most... More >>
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Two Houston companies stage different, but both worthwhile, productions of the same masterpiece.The Tony Award-winning international hit Art, by acclaimed playwright Yasmina Reza, has been staged several times in the Houston area, with one... More >>
From the Print Edition
"Colony Collapse" Nicola Parente has a way of getting your attention. Four years ago, it was with giant mushrooms made of peat moss that sprouted from Art League Houston's patio.… More >>
Race The title of David Mamet's last successful play is a four-letter word. Surprise? Mamet is the Shakespeare of the scatological, the poet of the profane. He's the only contemporary… More >>
Dear Mexican, Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt in supplying guns that ended up… More >>
Warrior Class: Hitting the Stage
A Republican assemblyman from New York, Julius Weishan Lee, Chinese-American, has given an inspirational talk that has gone viral and brought him to the attention of some political kingmakers. He… More >>
Facing the Blunt Force Drama of Race
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 the profane. He's the only contemporary playwright… More >>
Spanglish and Self-Esteem
Dear Mexican, Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? Juanito Dear Wab: "Anglos have long… More >>
"Colony Collapse" Nicola Parente has a way of getting your attention. Four years ago, it was with giant mushrooms made of peat moss that sprouted from Art League Houston's patio.… More >>
Chinglish A businessman from Cleveland travels to China seeking a contract to create signage, using as an interpreter an alleged consultant, an expatriate Caucasian fluent in Mandarin. The Chinese officials… More >>
The Art Car Parade: Enjoying the Ride
Be sure to check out our slideshow from the Art Car Parade. Mark "Scrapdaddy" Bradford is busy living up to his moniker at his Heights scrap metal studio. He and helper… More >>
The Found Treasures of Beachcombing
There is something strangely compelling about beach combing. You never know what will turn up. Tar balls, dead jellyfish and medical waste are more likely on the Texas coast than… More >>
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