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  Whether Pious or Heathen, Expect a Twangy Good Time at The Doyle and Debbie Show

  July 19 at 9:05 a.m.

  A country music has-been teams up with a never-was to make one last grab for fame in Stages Repertory Theatre’s production of The Doyle and Debbie Show.

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  Style Suffocates Substance In Woyzeck

  July 18 at 6:33 a.m.

  “I almost feel bad even calling it Woyzeck”, said Director Matt Hune just a short while before the show’s opening at Rec Room Arts. A funny thing to say about Georg Büchner’s classic 19th-century play, one of the most performed and influential pieces of German theater repertory. A show considered...

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  Night Court Looks at Election Law and Ethics in Politics in Law of the Jungle II

  July 18 at 4 a.m.

  "A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh / In the jungle, the mighty jungle...." The lion might be sleeping tonight, but all over H-Town attorneys, judges and stage-struck performers are donning wigs, costumes and make-up as Night Court, Houston's all-lawyer theater company, gets ready to present Law of the Jungle II. Every year's musical brings a new...

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  Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: Dog Show, Moor Fest and GONZO247's Jet

  July 17 at 5 a.m.

  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 Moorish American festival in more than a century, and a simultaneous...

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  Murder on the Orient Express As You've Never Seen it Before

  July 16 at 5:30 a.m.

  Why would a theater's new artistic director decide to make his acting debut with an Agatha Christie murder mystery instead of say, something more weighty, more serious? The train. Chalk it up to the singular vision Alley Artistic Director Rob Melrose had for the train and for the kind of...

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  Death and the Maiden is Next Up in the Houston Equity Festival

  July 10 at 7 a.m.

  On his way home from work, a lawyer named Gerardo Escobar has his car break down. A stranger, calling himself Dr. Miranda, happens by and helps him, driving him to his home. When Miranda returns later that day, Escobar's wife, Paulina, hears his voice and believes he is the leader...