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....
Bree Bridger Talks Directing Mamet's DUCK VARIATIONS for Firecracker Productions
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...
Director, Actor, and Writer Mark Shanahan On Directing AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS At the Alley
The Alley Theatre takes on Mark Brown's stage adaptation of Jules Verne's inventive novel....
Next Iteration Theater Brings New Political Drama THE BABY to MATCH
'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....
BWW Preview: Stark Naked Theatre Company Mounts Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
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 ...
Carolyn Johnson Talks Being Judy Garland in END OF THE RAINBOW at Stages
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....
Ensemble Artistic Director Eileen Morris On Staging August Wilson
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....
Houston Ballet's Head of Costumes Laura Lynch on Ben Stevenson's THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
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). ...
BWW Blog: Designer Thomas Murphy On Sewing University of Houston's INTIMATE APPAREL Together
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....
BWW Preview: Documentary THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE Shows In Houston on Sunday, Feb 21
THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE recounts the highs and lows of musical genius Nina Simone....
TORUK Artistic Director, Fabrice Lemire, On Breaking New Ground with Cirque du Soleil
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....
Christina Keefe Talks Directing Rice Theatre Program's EURYDICE
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....
Classical Theatre Company's Artistic Director John Johnston Talks A DOLL'S HOUSE
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....
RUSALKA Light Director, Paule Constable, Talks Dvorák's 'Most Romantic Opera'
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...
Abby Koenig Talks Her New Comedy Play COMPLAINT BOX AND/OR GOOD TIMES
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....
Director Troy Scheid Talks BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA at Main Street Theater
10-year-olds, Jesse and Leslie, forge a friendship and the fantasy kingdom, Terabithia to endure the harsh realities of their lives....
BWW Interview: Boiling Point Players Co-founder Autumn Clack Talks A NEW DAWN Cabaret
The Boiling Point Players continues its 2015 - 2016 season with cabaret A NEW DAWN, showing this weekend on January 21st....
Playwright Brendan Bourque-Sheil Talks BOOK OF MAGGIE, Set to Premiere at Stages Rep
'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....
Guy Roberts, Prague Shakespeare Co. AD, Talks Directing VENUS IN FUR for Main Street
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....
Artistic Director Trey Morgan Lewis Talks the FADE TO BLACK READING SERIES
The artist and artistic director explains the impetus behind the FADE TO BLACK READING SERIES and shares a few secrets about the nine plays included as well as his thoughts on the current theater scene's failure to support new works by African-American playwrights....
Philip Hays Talks Directing LOVE AND INFORMATION at Main Street Theater
On the heels of TWELFTH NIGHT's love and marriage and VENUS IN FUR's bondage and masochism, Main Street Theater brings LOVE AND INFORMATION by Caryl Churchill, a play-or, more accurately, a series of little plays about the role of technology in contemporary relationships....
MST & PSC Partnering to Present VENUS IN FUR
Main Street Theater (MST) continues its partnership with Prague Shakespeare Company (PSC) in presenting PSC's Venus in Fur by David Ives, directed by Guy Roberts, Artistic Director of Prague Shakespeare Company and native Houstonian. The production marks PSC's most popular show to date: Venus has pl...
Wordsmyth Theater to Host Reading of Local Playwright's COMPLAINT BOX AND/OR GOOD TIMES
On January 25, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Wordsmyth Theater Company will premiere 'Complaint Box and/or Good Times,' by the Houston-based playwright, Abby Koenig. The play and free staged reading, to be held at Studio 101, Spring Street Studios, is being funded through the Houston Arts Alliance esteemed Ind...
Todd Waite Talks THE SANTALAND DIARIES
THE SANTALAND DIARIES, a one man show based on great American humorist David Sedaris' essay on his time as a department store Christmas Elf, is back at the Alley Theatre...
MST Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden Talks Directing TWELFTH NIGHT
Main Street Theater (MST) presents William Shakespeare's romantic comedy TWELFTH NIGHT, wherein Duke Orsino gets more love than he bargained for in this tangled romantic comedy....
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