Betty Marie Muessig News

hile many of us realize the great responsibility our Presidents assumed when they were inaugurated, few consider how their wives were affected. In a series of four beautifully scored one-act musicals by Michael John LaChiusa, First Lady Suite journeys into the lives of four First Ladies - Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Eleanor Roosevelt - and the people around them. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below, which opens tonight, July 26, and runs through August 5.

In a series of four beautifully scored one-act musicals by Michael John LaChiusa, First Lady Suite journeys into the lives of four First Ladies - Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Eleanor Roosevelt - and the people around them. "Weird, Funny, and Wigged out," according to the NY Times, the piece meditates on finding one's identity and how we all must struggle to find our own way while in the shadow of another.

In a series of four beautifully scored one-act musicals by Michael John LaChiusa, First Lady Suite journeys into the lives of four First Ladies - Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Eleanor Roosevelt - and the people around them. "Weird, Funny, and Wigged out," according to the NY Times, the piece meditates on finding one's identity and how we all must struggle to find our own way while in the shadow of another.

Three recent graduates from Houston's High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, with a mission to put on genre defying musicals and rarely-performed plays, founded Bit of a Stretch Theatre Co. in 2010. After planting a seed in the Houston Theatre scene with last summer's show, their roots and longevity are being firmly set with their sophomore season's exquisite first production of existentialist Jean-Paul Sarte's No Exit-a play set in hell and that examines our relationships with each other.

Bit of a Stretch Theatre Co. will present NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre at 14 Pews on June 21 - 26. Directed by Emma Martinsen, No Exit features Brandon Hobrastchk as Garcin, Betty Marie Muessig as Estelle, Jacob Perkel as the Valet, and Meg Wozniak as Inez. Original Music by Wiley DeWeese. Marc Duncan is the technical director with set design by Leslie Turner. We have a sneak peek of the production photos below!

Bit of a Stretch Theatre Co. presents NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre at 14 Pews tonight, June 21 through June 26. Directed by Emma Martinsen, No Exit features Brandon Hobrastchk as Garcin, Betty Marie Muessig as Estelle, Jacob Perkel as the Valet, and Meg Wozniak as Inez. Original Music by Wiley DeWeese. Marc Duncan is the technical director with set design by Leslie Turner.

Bit of a Stretch Theatre Co. will present NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre at 14 Pews on June 21 - 26. Directed by Emma Martinsen, No Exit features Brandon Hobrastchk as Garcin, Betty Marie Muessig as Estelle, Jacob Perkel as the Valet, and Meg Wozniak as Inez. Original Music by Wiley DeWeese. Marc Duncan is the technical director with set design by Leslie Turner.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS), Houston's largest non-profit musical theatre company, announces the all teen cast of 13, a new musical comedy about coming of age, teen traumas and high school survival.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS), Houston's largest non-profit musical theatre company, announces the all teen cast of 13, a new musical comedy about coming of age, teen traumas and high school survival.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS), Houston's largest non-profit musical theatre company, announces the all teen cast of 13, a new musical comedy about coming of age, teen traumas and high school survival.