Playwright Bruce Graham takes the subject of race and twists it deftly so it becomes a noose. What begins as white liberal political correctness suddenly springs into privileged revenge. How this occurs seems to happen between scenes that overlap ...

When our distinguished panel met to finalize our winners and nominees for the 2018-19 Houston Theater Awards, the meeting was surprisingly amicable. Many of our choices were unanimous, or close to it, which I think speaks highly of the quality of ...

Is Jonathan Larson's Rent (1996) the saddest Broadway musical ever? Not in its fictional plot, which is a deft adaption of Puccini's war horse opera La Boheme, but in its tragic backstage real life plot. Wunderkind Larson, in love with musicals fr...

I suppose if you have nothing better to do during the hot humid days of our Houston summer, you could go to the air-conditioned Alley Theatre and see Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Or you could poke out your eyes with popsicle sti...

In Donald Bogle's definitive history of blacks in American film, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks, the incomparable entertainer Josephine Baker merits one scant mention. Of course, I guess this is warranted because St. Louis native Bak...

All aboard! There's plenty of room on this fabulous flying carpet for the entire family. Hop on with Aladdin and Jasmine and take a ride through the wonders of the Broadway musical Aladdin spun by a host of Tony-winners and Disney wizards. These m...