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Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Dog Show, Moor Fest and GONZO247's Jet
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 5 a.m. by Susie Tommaney

Imagine this weekend in Houston is a massive interactive scavenger hunt. Before Sunday is over, we'll have seen bar crawlers wearing Santa hats, dogs groomed to look like lions, a Hawker jet tricked out in 1960s colors, the first Mo...
Theatre Southwest Set to Present Neil Simon's Farcical Barefoot in the Park
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 4 a.m. by Susie Tommaney

When you're euphoric and giddy with love, you want everybody to feel just as happy. And so after a six day honeymoon it's no wonder newlyweds Paul and Corie want to play matchmaker. But you know what they say about the best-laid pla...
The Whale at Theatre Southwest Is Big as All Get-Out
Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 12:41 p.m. by D. L. Groover

The set-up: Celebrating its 60th season, venerable Theatre Southwest, housed in a musty strip mall off Fondren Road, manages to open our eyes to the wonders of theater. You never know what surprise is in store. I've yet to see a cre...
Theatre Southwest's Festival of Originals Still Swingin' After 19 Years
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 7 a.m. by Vic Shuttee

Mimi Holloway has been producing the Festival of Originals for the last 19 years. The artistic director says that despite nearly two decades of existence the basic format has remained the same. “We take five original scrip...