How grand it is to have Houston Grand Opera back where it belongs – in its own home, that glorious aural cocoon that is the Wortham Theater. It's been an entire year since Hurricane Harvey devastated the downtown theater, and while we applaud HGO'...

It's never cool in Houston during October – is it ever really cool any time of year? – but I know a place where you can kick back, relax, and chill. It's at Classical Theatre Company on Montrose Boulevard, where The Return of Sherlock Holmes envel...

Today's theater world is a fallow place. There are no recent playwrights whose work commands respect and opening-night buzz like those of theatrical Rushmore icons Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Christopher Durang. August Wilson, Sam S...

There are certain musicals that are immune to criticism. Hamilton, for one, because it's brilliant, and Evil Dead, because it's so...well, stupid. (Holy Ziegfeld, I can't believe I've actually mentioned Hamilton in the same sentence as Evil Dead.)...

Is there no sunlight in France? This touring production of Les Misérables, presented by Mischer Neurosciences Broadway at the Hobby, attains an epic grandeur unrivaled in musical theater since the days of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billy Rose. It remain...

Legendary film mogul Samuel Goldwyn (the G in MGM) once famously said that he didn't want to see any more movies where people write with feathers. Sorry to be contrary Mr. Goldwyn, but these are the films and plays I most want to see. I'm done wit...