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  Frustration But Not Fright From The Rabbit Cage

  October 14 at 4:30 a.m.

  Bless their hearts. This saying is among the first Southern phrases one learns upon moving to Houston. My understanding of it, in its kindest iteration, is that it conveys a feeling of empathy. An acknowledgment that effort was made, even if the intended results were not achieved. A gold star...

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  Get Ready to Sing Out as Cats Returns to Houston in All its Furry, Live, Acrobatic Glory

  October 14 at 4 a.m.

  For weeks now, Brandon Michael Nase, who has performed in theaters across the country, who holds a master of music degree from New York University and who includes opera in the type of music he likes to sing, has gone to a job where he puts on a giant, furry cat...

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  4th Wall Theatre Co. Presents the Sadly Dysfunctional Family of The Glass Menagerie

  October 12 at 7:07 a.m.

  Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie (1945), certainly his most personal work and, perhaps, his best, is not known for skidding off the rails. But 4th Wall Theatre Company's production careens dangerously close to the edge. I have suspicions why it doesn't move us as it should, why its...

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  Salt, Root and Roe a Quietly Emotional Ride at Stages Repertory Theatre

  October 11 at 9:47 a.m.

  Twin sisters enter into a suicide pact in Stages Repertory Theatre's production of Salt, Root and Roe.

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  Smell That Teen Spirit in Spring Awakening at TUTS

  October 11 at 6:36 a.m.

  It should come as no surprise that late 19th-century Teutonic teens were just as randy and angsty as our Gen Zs. Raging hormones know no century. Smartly adapted from German playwright Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, his 1891 experimental and scathing indictment of bourgeois hypocrisy toward adolescent budding sexuality, this 2006...

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  Vietgone Is The Gateway Play Houston Needs

  October 10 at 6:24 a.m.

  Take every dramatization about the Vietnam War you know and toss it firmly out the window. Then run over it a few times until you quash it into oblivion. This is Vietgone. A play where Vietnamese finally get to be the cool, smart, and sexy leading roles, speaking in perfect...