Katricia Lang started reporting in 2005 at her college's student-run newspaper. Today, she covers arts and culture instead of the Student Association’s bylaws. Her features and opinion pieces have appeared in print and online. From 2016-2019, she was Managing Editor of BroadwayWorld - Houston.
Roundabout Theatre Company presents Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony Award-winning version of Kander & Ebb's wildly popular Broadway musical CABARET.
ALL THE WAY opens with blinking blood-red lights, deafening gunshots, vibrant colors in impressionistic soft-focus. Moments later, you can cut the tension with a knife or the crisp, clear black and white projections. From the start, Director Kevin Moriarty establishes that the Dallas Theater Center and Alley Theatre's stunning co-production of Robert Schenkkan's exhilarating political thriller is no documentary or a biopic.
'THE TROJAN WOMEN tells the gripping story of the women the day after Troy fall to the Greeks. The women wrestle with their fate as defeated slaves. With a beautiful modern translation this dramatic play is at once immersive and accessible,' says director Tom Stell.
In David Mamet's THE DUCK VARIATIONS, two elderly men spend their time watching birds and making conversation that is often for those very same birds. Firecracker Productions gender-swaps the characters and fills the play with the virtues, flaws, dreams, and musings of two women (and two women actors).
The Alley Theatre takes on Mark Brown's stage adaptation of Jules Verne's inventive novel.
'The personal is political,' wrote radical feminist Carol Hanisch. Next Iteration Theater Company explores this concept in theatrical form with its world premiere of THE BABY, a political and family drama by Houston and London-based playwright Lisa Boss Omlie.
Stark Naked Theatre Company stages luminary playwright Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, the explosive, heart pounding drama about marital discord, dysfunction and delusion between George, a university professor, and his wife Martha, as well as their unwitting guests, a younger couple Nick and Honey.
Actress and performer Carolyn Johnson returns to Stages Repertory Theatre to star as Judy Garland in drama musical END OF THE RAINBOW. The role requires Johnson do justice to Garland's greatest hits and misses. Johnson tells BroadwayWorld how she plans to fulfill her duty.
Per usual, The Ensemble Theatre honors Black history every month of the year. Less usual: The theater company commemorates August Wilson and Black American history with its continued staged readings of Wilson's AMERICAN CENTURY CYCLE and currently staged production of Wilson's play FENCES.
In tribute to Artistic Director Emeritus Ben Stevenson's 80th birthday, Houston Ballet stages Stevenson's lush version of the preeminent ballet THE SLEEPING BEAUTY for the first time in 5 years. In Ivan Vsevolozhsky's libretto, Carabosse, an evil fairy, curses Princess Aurora (the Sleeping Beauty). The princess sleeps for a hundred years, only to be saved when her handsome prince, Florimund, awakens her with a kiss.
THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE recounts the highs and lows of musical genius Nina Simone.
Cirque du Soleil's TORUK - THE FIRST FLIGHT is definitely outside of the box. The main characters are 10-feet-tall extraterrestrials with striped skin and feline features. TORUK is inspired by James Cameron's AVATAR.
Rebecca 'Becky' Foster is listless. At 45+, the middle-class, middle-aged mother and wife resignedly trudges through life.
The Rice Theatre Program presents EURYDICE, an adaptation of the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus that leads to some funny, heartfelt theater and imaginative staging.
The visually appetizing lyrical opera RUSALKA hits the Houston Grand Opera stage as part of the Glyndebourne Tour. Composed by Antonin Dvorak and written by poet Jaroslav Kvapil in 1900, RUSALKA is a rather tragic fairytale about an ill-fated love affair between a water sprite (or rusalka) and a prince.
Those interested in seeing a fresh new work are in luck. Wordsmyth Theater Company presents a staged reading of Houston playwright Abby Koenig's original play, COMPLAINT BOX AND/OR GOOD TIMES, tonight January 25, 2016 at 7:30 pm.
10-year-olds, Jesse and Leslie, forge a friendship and the fantasy kingdom, Terabithia to endure the harsh realities of their lives.
The Boiling Point Players continues its 2015 - 2016 season with cabaret A NEW DAWN, showing this weekend on January 21st.
The actors add to the relaxed atmosphere. No one is too good to play for a laugh, which is quintessential Shakespeare. The bard includes a pickled-herring gas joke. The TWELFTH NIGHT actors ensure you laugh at it.
'What if your life isn't wonderful? What if your life's a loveless shit-show that's unlikely to get better? What if the world may actually be better off without you? Can you still find a reason to live then?,' asks playwright and THE BOOK OF MAGGIE author Brendan Bourque-Sheil.
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