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New Theater on the Block

Bill Hardy's Houston Rep hopes to give the city a fourth professional theater

By Michael King
Jul 7, 1994

"You're not the first person who's asked that question," William Hardy replies with a grin. After nearly three years of working to create -- and raise money for -- the new Houston Repertory Theatre, he is accustomed to myriad variations on the bemused inquiry, "Why would anybody try to start...
Dead Men's Tales

Main Street Theater's splendid "new" Sherlock Holmes

By Michael King
Jul 7, 1994

Long since set on the British Empire, the sun shines eternal on Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle's detecting doppelganger has survived happily through dozens of literary and film versions, parodies and sequels over the course of one century, and looks robust enough to flourish through at least another. At the...
War Within a War

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

By Michael King
Jun 9, 1994

A murder mystery lives on the misdirected expectations and presumptions of its audience. In the best of the genre, the onlookers should be surprised not only by the identity of the murderer, but by what they learn about their own preconceptions. Charles Fuller's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winner, A Soldier's Play, currently...
Comedy with Character

By Michael King
Jun 9, 1994

"Dying is easy, comedy is hard," goes the old actors' saw. Two hard-working actresses are doing their level best to prove the laughs are worth the effort in Theatre LaB Houston's sharp-edged production of Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy's The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives. Deborah Hope and Dee...
Made in Houston

Hometown stages feature more than one sort of menagerie

By Michael King
May 26, 1994

Last week provided a wry opportunity to take in the lively extremes of homemade Houston theater, from the compositional precision of Edward Albee at one end to the pop-bohemian excesses of Beans Barton and the Bi-Peds at the other. Albee, Houston's part-time resident Pulitzer-winner, has been much in the news...

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