Houston Interviews - Page 9

FINDING DORY, the long-awaited follow-up to the unbelievably beloved 2003 film FINDING NEMO, follows Dory, a good-natured, amnesiac blue tang fish (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), as she searches for her long lost parents....

Since 1977, the PBS series THE TERRITORY has exposed Houstonians to independent short films from around the globe. Now, SWAMP wants the television show to broadcast nationally....

One of Houston's most engaging theatre companies Mildred's Umbrella and Wordsmyth Theatre is opening their MUSEUM OF DYSFUNCTION VIII this week for a two weekend run. This is a short play festival which will actually have two different programs running the first weekend from the second....

Roberta Guidi di Bagno has worked with the Houston Ballet costume shop to successfully design costumes that both express GISELLE's weighty themes and drape weightlessly on the dancers....

Houston Ballet's 2016 Spring Mixed Repertory Program reprises Balanchine's SERENADE and Sir Kenneth Macmillan's GLORIA and presents the Houston Ballet premiere of Alexander Ekman's self-aware comedic contemporary work CACTI. We talk to company principal dancer Ian Casady ('Gloria' and 'Cacti') about...

I got the opportunity to speak with actors Chris Gibson and Rachel Landon, Stage Manager Lauren Hainley, and Choreographer Eric Dano about SRO's upcoming production of SILENCE! THE MUSICAL. The musical is a parody of the 1991 Academy Award winning film, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS starring Jodie Foster...

It's barely May and The Ensemble Theatre stage is steamier than Houston in July because of John Shevin Foster's contemporary romantic comedy PLENTY OF TIME....

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, starring internationally adored and acclaimed actor Dev Patel (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, 2008) and Tony and Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, is now playing in Houston....

Obsidian Theater presents the world premiere of THINGS MISSING/MISSED, an original devised work created by theatre artists Philip Hays, Melissa Flower and Justin Locklear....

Michael Mongtomery and Julie Montgomery discuss the name change announcement for HFAC and the opening of DAMN YANKEES in Houston, TX...

In 2011, while he was still in high school, Houston playwright Alric Davis stumbled upon the Gary Plauche case. Plauche fatally shot his son's kidnapper and longtime sexual abuser on live television. Fascinated by the overwhelming support Plauche received, he began to write DIFFERENT, DAMAGED, DAMN...

Richard Linklater's comedy EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, set in 1980, follows college baseball players as they drink, smoke, and fight their way through the weekend before classes begin....

Stages Repertory Theatre works again with acclaimed Canadian playwright Michele Riml to produce the world premiere of MISS TEEN, a comedic drama about a shy, unlikely beauty pageant winner and her mother's ambitious efforts to meet the demands of her daughter's newfound fame....

HAMILTON proves that ethnically and culturally diverse casts can produce smash hits. However, before the performing arts community can pat herself on the back for being so accepting, she should turn her head to the right. All too often, inclusive theater excludes theater artists with disabilities. D...

Ensemble Theatre's Act One Young Professionals presents DRAMA-TRY: A DRAMATIC NIGHT OF POETRY. Here to talk about the poetry showcase are Andrea Browne and Henry Mosley, Co-Chairs of the Act One Young Professionals Steering Committee, and event host/emcee, the poet Se7en....

Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company concludes their 2015-2016 season with the world premiere of DOLLFACE, a modern retelling of the myth of Medusa, written by Katharine Sherman....

The Landing Theatre Company opens its 2015-2016 season in their new home with a production of Sam Shepard's one-act classic FOOL FOR LOVE. You may have guessed from the title that it's a love story, but the relationship between Eddie and May is far from your typical boy-meets-girl fairy tale....

NobleMotion Dance's Andy Noble says art is in his family's DNA. Perhaps this is why his grandparents, Hans and Ilse Juergensen, and his mother, Claudia Juergensen Noble, are the nucleus of L'DOR VADOR: THREE GENERATIONS OF POETRY AND DANCE, he and his wife's multidisciplinary contemporary dance crea...

The Ensemble Theatre presents DETROIT '67 by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Eileen J. Morris....

This weekend, Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. presents THE BOUNDARY, a story about a married romance writer whose world is flipped upside down when a former flame, now on the run from the FBI, suddenly re-enters her life, desperately needing her help....

The Boiling Point Players presents the A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mixtape replete with dance breaks and an all-female cast....

Roundabout Theatre Company presents Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony Award-winning version of Kander & Ebb's wildly popular Broadway musical CABARET....

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 actor...

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 ...

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). ...

INTIMATE APPAREL, a play described by Nottage as a 'quiet play' in which 'every scene takes place in some sort of boudoir,' is in it's heart about the private relationships between those close to us and those we wish were closer....

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....

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....

In this interview, BroadwayWorld.com talks to Classical Theatre Company Executive Artistic Director John Johnston about directing CTC's A DOLL'S HOUSE, Ibsen's meaning, and the play's controversial ending....

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 pri...

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....

'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....

This January, Main Street Theater and the Prague Shakespeare Company have come together to stage PSC's most popular show, David Ives' sexually-charged power struggle VENUS IN FUR....