A windstorm out of all proportion whirls itself up. A small religious family hunkers down for the duration, bolstered — perhaps or maybe not — by the arrival of an estranged daughter. And the term duration takes on a whole new meaning as the storm...

Fans of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's previous adaptation of Austen's characters in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley can rejoice: the play-writing duo is bringing a new episode to Ma...

Suggesting that politics, not concern for students, is behind the Texas Education Agency decision to take over the Houston ISD school board, Houston Federation of Teachers President Zeph Capo Monday charged the state agency with a continued attemp...

Surviving the high school years is tough enough for many kids, but for those with social anxiety it can be four years of pure hell. Evan Hansen wants to ditch his aloneness and connect with others. He seizes on an opportunity to pretend he was fri...

When the Alley Theatre wheels out its annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol — A Ghost Story of Christmas this year, David Rainey will be playing the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge. It won't be for the first time. In 2006, he and...

Houston ISD is neither efficient nor effective in how it manages its money. It regularly adopts a budget in which projected revenue is inadequate to pay for planned expenditures and so it has to keep diving into its fund balance. In fact, the LBB ...