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  Judgment Burns In Freeda Peoples

  March 22 at 5:53 a.m.

  “Church is not a country club for saints; it’s a hospital for sinners.” So goes the shrewd advice/admonition given to the Reverend Scott at the conclusion of Joyce Sylvester’s pseudo-morality play, Freeda Peoples, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre. The moment the line is uttered, approving murmurs reverberate in the...

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  Count on Things Going Wrong in The Play That Goes Wrong at the Hobby Center

  March 21 at 5 a.m.

  A drama club is doing its best to put on a 1920s mystery Murder at Haversham Manor and alas, things are not going as planned. It's Tony Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong now coming to Houston courtesy of Mischer Neurosciences Broadway at the Hobby and bringing with it, a former...

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  The Hilton Sisters Were Conjoined Twins. Side Show at Queensbury Tells Their Story.

  March 20 at 5 a.m.

  Queensbury Theatre has chosen to end its 2018-19 season with a memorable musical based on the real lives of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins (so-called Siamese twins in the day) who lived ever intertwined lives of love, exploitation, sadness and fame during the Great Depression. The musical Side Show...

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  Freeda Peoples at Ensemble Examines What Happens When Everybody's Judging

  March 19 at 12:24 p.m.

  In Freeda Peoples about to open at The Ensemble Theatre, playwright Joyce Sylvester (Women in the Pit) explores the relationships between the members of the congregation and their new pastor — discovering along the way that no one is exactly who they seem to be. Although she did not grow up...

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  The Hunchback of Seville Straightens Out Spain in the 16th Century

  March 19 at 4 a.m.

  In a special, one-time event, Alley Theatre has opened its doors to the suddenly homeless Mildred's Umbrella for the latter's presentation of The Hunchback of Seville, a less than reverent retelling of 16th Century Spanish history involving a dying Queen Isabella and her hunchbacked, reclusive and brilliant sister. Patricia Duran...

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  Ragtime Tells 3 Stories of the Early 20th Century That Merge Into America

  March 18 at 5 a.m.

  Mr. Coalhouse Walker Jr.  and Ezekiel Andrew have a history. When Ragtime opens at the Hobby Center courtesy of Theatre Under the Stars it will be the fourth time Andrew plays the pivotal character in the musical set in early 20th Century America. In fact, in the last three years he's...