FrenetiCore Renames Frenetic Theater, Announces New Management
Following the departure of FrenetiCore's Founding Artistic Director Rebecca French, the organization's Executive Director and Board of Directors have decided to continue operations at its home facility of eight years at 5102 Navigation Boulevard....
BWW Blog: Playwright Alric Davis on Creating the Characters for His Original Play DIFFERENT, DAMAGED, DAMNED
DIFFERENT, DAMAGED, DAMNED appears at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C. starting Thursday, July 7 at 7:15 pm; Sunday, July 10 at 2 p.m.; Saturday, July 16 at 2:15 pm; Tuesday, July 19 at 5:15 p.m.; and Saturday, July 23 at 2:15 p.m....
Houston Ballet Academy Students Spend Independence Day in Hamburg
This Independence Day six talented Houston Ballet Academy students go to Hamburg, Germany to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of John Neumeier's YONDERING....
BWW Feature: Supervising Animator Michael Stocker Talks Finding Dory for FINDING DORY
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....
SWAMP Seeks Support For Long-Running Houston Short Film Series THE TERRITORY
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....
MUSEUM OF DYSFUNCTION PLAY FESTIVAL at Mildred's Umbrella
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....
Designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno Talks Costumes and Set of Houston Ballet's New GISELLE
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....
Principal Dancer Ian Casady Talks Houston Ballet's Spring Mixed Repertory Program
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...
SRO Productions Talks SILENCE!
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...
Co-Stars Rachel Hemphill Dickson and Steve Scott Talk The Ensemble Theatre's PLENTY OF TIME
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....
BWW Preview: IFC Films' THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, Now Playing in Houston
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....
THINGS MISSING/MISSED Creative Team Talks the Devised Play's World Premiere at Obsidian Theater
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....
HFAC to Announce Name Change at DAMN YANKEES
Michael Mongtomery and Julie Montgomery discuss the name change announcement for HFAC and the opening of DAMN YANKEES in Houston, TX...
BWW Blog: Houston Playwright Alric Davis Talks Origins of Original Play DIFFERENT, DAMAGED, DAMNED Set to Premiere at DC's Capital Fringe Festival
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...
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! Actors Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, and Blake Jenner Act Out
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....
Playwright Michele Riml and Actress Elizabeth Townsend Talk Beauty and Strength in MISS TEEN
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....
Deborah Nowinski, Founding Artistic Director of Dionysus Theatre, Talks 'Inclusion Theatre'
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...
BWW Feature: The Ensemble Theatre Presents DRAMA-TRY: A DRAMATIC NIGHT OF POETRY
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....
BWW Interviews: Jacey Little Talks Directing DOLLFACE for Mildred's Umbrella
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....
Director Brandon Weinbrenner Talks The Landing Theatre Company's FOOL FOR LOVE
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 Artistic Directors Talk L'DOR VADOR: THREE GENERATIONS OF POETRY AND DANCE
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...
Actors Kendrick 'KayB' Brown and Cynthia Brown Garcia Talk DETROIT '67
The Ensemble Theatre presents DETROIT '67 by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Eileen J. Morris....
Malinda L. Beckham, Doug Williams and Donna McKenzie Talk World Premiere of THE BOUNDARY
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....
Boiling Point Players Stages A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM With An All-Female Cast
The Boiling Point Players presents the A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mixtape replete with dance breaks and an all-female cast....
Obie-winning Actress Shannon Cochran Talks Roundabout Theatre's National Tour of CABARET
Roundabout Theatre Company presents Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony Award-winning version of Kander & Ebb's wildly popular Broadway musical CABARET....
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