Jim Johnson News

BECKY'S NEW CAR opens tonight, July 12th at The New Dragon Theatre, written by playwright Steven Dietz, author of 2011's comedy Private Eyes, and directed by James Nelson.

BECKY'S NEW CAR opens July 12th at The New Dragon Theatre, written by playwright Steven Dietz, author of 2011's comedy Private Eyes, and directed by James Nelson.

The Carrollwood Player have announced their 2013-14 season, featuring nine shows, and two additional musicals. Check out the full schedule below!

Mildred's Umbrella is closing their 2012-2013 season with the Houston premiere of the moody and atmospheric formula bending genre play RAVENSCROFT by Don Nigro. The 1991 drama serves as the basis for THE MANOR, a 1999 film with Peter O'Toole, and introduces audiences to Inspector Ruffing, a man challenged with trying to decipher the truth through his interviews with five duplicitous women at Ravenscroft Manor. We watch as Ruffing tries to solve the possible murder of Patrick Roarke, who took an unfortunate headfirst dive down that main stairwell in the middle of the night.

Director Jim Johnson coaches a point-taking performance of the Pulitzer-winning play at Susquehanna Stage Co.

Presenting their second out of three productions for this year's 'Get Talking' series, Stages Repertory Theatre is producing Julia Cho's THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE. The deliciously existential and fairy tale-esque drama won the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn award, a prize given to plays written by women in the English language. The somewhat simplistic and formulaic plot introduces audiences to a linguist, George, who is the curator of a language library that preserves the last remaining strands of dead and dying languages. Despite his love for languages, he is inept in communication, which estranges him from his wife, Mary. George and his assistant, Emma, fly in a couple from a devastated Eastern European country to record their native language, the romantic and beautiful Elloway. However, the couple is bickering, so they have cast off Elloway and are using the 'hateful' language of English to fight.

...add to this 7 more, over the top, zany characters, in a story with a ridiculous plot, and you have a hilarious farce, called 'Drinking Habits' now playing at the Carrollwood Players.It is just plain FUN!

Sally Edmundson directs The Language Archive by award-winning playwright Julia Cho, having its regional premiere at Stages Repertory Theatre in February and March.

Houston Grand Opera opened their Winter Repertory offerings with an impressive and rousing production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's iconic book musical SHOW BOAT. The musical historically changed the face of American Musical Theatre and introduced a genre of entertainment that many feel OKLAHOMA perfected and solidified. Despite it's classification as a musical, the show's score is incredibly operatic and requires many classically trained voices to effectively pull off a production.

Opening tonight, November 24, at the Addison Theatre and Conference Center is WaterTower Theatre's production of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY by Joe Landry runs through December 16, 2012, directed by Mark Fleischer. Get a first look at the production below!

Opening this weekend at the Addison Theatre and Conference Center is WaterTower Theatre's production of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play - tonight, November 24 at 8 pm.

Opening this weekend at the Addison Theatre and Conference Center is WaterTower Theatre's production of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play - Saturday, November 24 at 8 pm.

Director Jim Johnson, Linde Stern, and Jeannie Saulnier bring the Brewster sisters and their deadly drinks to riotous life at Susquehanna Stage Co.

Classical Theatre Company (CTC) is opening its 5th season with August Strindberg's seminal drama, MISS JULIE. Comfortably at home in their new performance space, Studio 101 at Spring Street Studios, CTC's production of this taught and intense drama is a fantastic miasma of contemporary social issues, showing that while we've made progress in some aspects, some things are remain relatively unchanged since 1888.

WaterTower Theatre today announced casting details for its holiday show, It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. The ensemble cast, directed by Mark Fleischer, features Jessica Cavanagh (last appeared at WaterTower Theatre in August: Osage Country), Matt Moore (last appeared at WTT in The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Jim Johnson (last appeared at WTT in The Great American Trailer Park Musical), Lydia MacKay (last appeared at WTT in As You Like It) and B.J. Cleveland, who makes his WTT stage debut in this production.

Prospect Theater Project and The Gallo Center for the Arts are joining again to bring John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, to the Gallo Center stage tonight, May 4 and May 5 and May 9-13. The performance of the classic story follows the partnering organizations highly successful production ofTo Kill A Mockingbird which played at the Gallo Center in the 2010/2011 season.

A previously announced event at the Gallo Center for the Arts has taken on added star power with the news that performers from the Fox Television hit "Glee" will be appearing. The television show's casting director Robert Ulrich of Modesto, and his wife, actress Kim Johnston-Ulrich of Ripon, are to be honored in April at a "Hometown Heroes" event, a continuing series at the Gallo Center that salutes area residents who have achieved national success in their fields.

The Boy Who Cried Bully, a theatrical performance designed to address the sensitive topic of bullying, will be shown on Wednesday, April 25 at 7:00 PM. This is the public performance of the Center's 2011/2012 traveling production that has been shown throughout various elementary schools in Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Tuolumne and Merced counties since October 2011.