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  Farewell to One Sassy Mama

  November 21 at 5 a.m.

  The lights of Houston's stages are considerably dimmer with the death of Detria Ward, one of our most distinctive, distinguished actors. The Ensemble Theatre, the company in which she shone brightest, released the news of her death, November 17. Whenever I saw her name in the cast list at Ensemble,...

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  10 Best Bets This Weekend in Houston: HUE Mural Festival, Music of Ray Charles

  November 21 at 4 a.m.

  This week we're serving up another heaping helping of holiday lights and seasonal stage offerings, plus a chance to view rad new murals, a celebration of the music of Ray Charles, chainsawed ice sculptures, public art and so much more. Keep reading because half of these events are free. Witness...

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  It's Time for The Nutcracker in All its Glory at Houston Ballet

  November 20 at 4 a.m.

  Growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, there wasn't a whole lot of professional dance theater to be seen. So when the Cincinnati Ballet came to perform, it was a really special and exciting experience for young ballet student Gabrielle Johnson. The troupe came with a performance of The Nutcracker and as...

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  A Dry-Eyed Reviewer Looks at the Alley's A Christmas Carol

  November 18 at 7:08 a.m.

  I am no Scrooge. One of the most pleasant men you could ever meet, I love cats, children, the perfect chilled martini, and the joy of Christmas. I weep during Pinocchio. I may not always send thank-you notes, but nobody's perfect. I also love good theater and know what it...

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  Dylan Godwin Fully Commits to the Rigors of a One-Actor Show in Fully Committed

  November 18 at 5 a.m.

  For several years, the Alley Theatre had alternative programming in its downstairs theater paired with the showings upstairs of A Christmas Carol. And for several years that alternative was The Santaland Diaries with Alley Theatre company's Todd Waite the star of the one-man show. That alternative programming got kind of lost...

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  Miracle on 34th Street at A.D. Players Taps Into the Real Christmas Spirit

  November 18 at 4 a.m.

  Surprisingly enough, director Philip Hays has never seen the 1947 classic movie starring Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn, and when A. D. Players offered him a chance to direct a stage version of Miracle on 34th Street, he decided not to change that. "I wanted our take on...