A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER plays out as if you took SWEENEY TODD, let Gilbert & Sullivan rewrite the score, and staged it on a revolutionary picture book set that utilized digital scenery.
Anchoring SINS OF THE MOTHER is a uniformly great cast who flesh out these roles with passion and sincerity.
HEATHERS the musical at TUTS Underground is very very.
This is a community theatre that pulls off a spectacular English show by keeping things simple.
It's charmingly adolescent, and full of cock and pecker jokes which feature prominently in this lark of a piece.
I always turn to Catastrophic Theatre for the best in edgy experimental work in Houston.
SPEAKEASY has a great cast, some catchy songs, a nice plot, and a great sense of interactive fun that should have audiences on their feet doing the Charleston.
The tour Broadway Across America has brought into Houston is outstanding in how it handles expectations and shatters them in new and original ways.
TUTS Underground has a crowd pleaser on its hands, and this one should have a deservedly successful run with plenty of fans at the end of it.
Like Garland herself, the show is obsessed with high energy musical uppers contrasted with dark dramatic downers in between.
A brave cast, a spot on director, and amazing technical direction just can't make STRAIGHT WHITE MEN appealing.
SHADOWS ON OAK ISLAND works best when it is looking at Jackson and Rene losing their child, and plunges into silly nonsense when trying to decipher the Knights of the Templar legends or hint at ghosts.
Main Street Theater's production of VENUS IN FUR is the sexiest and most thought-provoking play you can see in Houston right now.
Broadway at the Hobby Center has brought Houston one of the best touring versions of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA out there, and it notably soars hitting most all of the notes we demand.
Pitch Me This Productions has done a great job bringing THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW to life for this year's annual dose of absolute pleasure and sins of the flesh.
For one night only BATMAN will hit the stage in an adaptation of ARKHAM ASYLUM: A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH.
Sit back and simply enjoy the spectacle of the ladies discovering their sex while the men recoil in horror and sing songs about 'hair in the air', and then pretend it all made sense when you wake up in the morning.
AMERICAN IDIOT is everything you could want from a regional premiere as it takes the slick polish of Broadway and redefines it into passionate intimacy for a playhouse.
Small theatre takes on big comedy with VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
