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Review: THE BODY SNATCHER at The Alley Theatre
A Heart of Darkness: THE BODY SNATCHER Delivers Gothic Thrills...
Review: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY at Stages Houston
A sweeping epic opens the latest Stages season....
Review: THE DA VINCI CODE at Alley Theatre
It’s a marvelously entertaining thriller that audiences are likely to flock to, because it has a sense of awe-inspired fun that you seldom find in the theater. It's high-tech Agatha Christie, and perfect for the Fall. ...
Review: EUREKA DAY at 4TH Wall Theatre Company
Fourth Wall Theatre Company has a revival right now, and boy, does it feel timed for the right moment in Texas politics. Read BroadwayWorld's review of Eureka Day at 4th Wall Theatre Company. ...
Review: ENDGAME at Catastrophic Theatre
Before this world ends, you need to see Catastrophic’s staging of ENDGAME starring Greg Dean and directed by Jason Nodler. They never truly seem to be finished with this one, but you can’t honestly expect the world to be here for a revival in thirteen years....
Review: AKEELAH & THE BEE at The Ensemble Theatre
The opening of The Ensemble’s 49th season is a H-I-T!...
Review: PURLIE VICTORIOUS at Main Street Theater
PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH is certainly a curiosity, a satire of Jim Crow life written during the throes of the equal rights movement of the early sixties. I feel like it should seem more creaky, more antiquated, and backwards. Unfortunately for us, it is not....
Review: SCHMITT'S PSALM 47 AND STRAVINSKY'S FIREBIRD at Houston Symphony
What did our critic think of SCHMITT'S PSALM 47 AND STRAVINSKY'S FIREBIRD at Houston Symphony?...
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Hobby Center For The Performing Arts
What did our critic think of KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Hobby Center For The Performing Arts?...
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Broadway At The Hobby Center
This touring production of the 2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, is based on David Lindsay-Abaire’s play of the same name. Kimberly, about to turn 16, has just moved with her family to a quiet suburb in New Jersey....
Review: DANCING LESSONS at LIONWOMAN PRODUCTIONS
Michelle Britton seems to be an actor’s director, and DANCING LESSONS allows her artists to be showcased for what they do best. You get a sense that her assured hand simply guided everyone into the right notes, and she orchestrates this truly lovely play....
Review: INCIDENT AT VICHY at Theatre Southwest
INCIDENT AT VICHY is a lesser-known work by the legendary Arthur Miller in which nine men wait in a quiet detention room in Nazi-occupied France, unsure why they’ve been taken, what’s coming next, and who will be spared. As questions swirl and suspicions rise, a chilling truth emerges: the arres...
Review: AMERICAN PSYCHO THE MUSICAL at HOUSTON BROADWAY THEATRE
Broadway, film, and television star Robert Lenzi (THE HAPPENING and THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL) is Patrick Bateman for this Houston run. He plays Patrick as an apex predator, but one that surprisingly gets lonely or feels isolated. There is not just the cold killer, but also a sense of what’s killing...
Review: THE CHOSEN ONES at Thunderclap Productions
The level of professionalism and the sheen on The Chosen Ones is gobsmacking. This is a very heartfelt musical that you can sense through every second means so much to this cast and its creators....
Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION at MIGHTY ACORN PRODUCTIONS
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION will probably hit hardest with those of us who took drama classes at some point, and were subjected to this uniquely silly torture that acting teachers come up with just to knock us all down a few pegs. I imagine those lucky enough to have evaded that will be giggling at...
Review: LIFE OF PI at Hobby Center For The Performing Arts
Brilliant projections, realistic animal puppetry, and a cast that seems to do the impossible are currently at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Lolita Chakrabarti and Yann Martel's Life of Pi. The production, while a visual wonder to behold, is also one of the most head-scratching and perp...
Review: PULLMAN, WA at The Phoenix Group
It probably helps that Domenico Leona is a poet, and that Ashley Galan just knows theater so dang well. They and this cast pull off a really radical, well-realized regional premiere for a play by a complex and compelling force in American Theatre....
Review: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA sparkles at Sankofa Collective
The Sankofa Collective has always done ambitious projects, including THE BODYGUARD, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and a collaboration with the Garden Theatre, resulting in an amazing production of THE COLOR PURPLE.
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Review: IOLANTHE at Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston
What did our critic think of IOLANTHE at Gilbert And Sullivan Society Of Houston?...
Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Queensbury Theatre
As a devoted fan of The Last Five Years by the incomparable Jason Robert Brown, I can confidently say that I've logged countless hours listening to both official and unofficial recordings of this beloved two-person musical.
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Review: HONKY TONK LAUNDRY at Stages Houston
Honky Tonk Laundry finally gets its due, five years after it closed, or rather didn’t even open, because of the pandemic. And we are in luck, because most of the original team of actors and production designers are back....
Review: THE MIRROR CRACK'D at The Alley Theater
Based on Agatha Christie’s novel The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, this stage adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff, and directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, brings a wave of Hollywood drama to the sleepy English village of St. Mary Mead....
Review: PARADE at Broadway at The Hobby Center
PARADE asks a lot of its audience. There are moments when a song is so rousing and well-sung, but then you realize the material is uncomfortable, and you wonder if you should cheer or stay absolutely quiet....
Review: THE 39 STEPS at Main Street Theater
We know this is a vaudeville production from the start, and the cast revels in the buffoonery. THE 39 STEPS is perfect summer theater fare for fans of silly spies and inventive theatrical staging....
Review: ANOTHER DING DANG TAMARIE SHOW! at Catastrophic Theatre
Truly, these shows are ingenious musical sketch-comedy pieces that remind me a ton of both Carol Brunette and variety shows of the 70s as much as something like a South Park, The Simpsons, or Family Guy. They are a chance to watch “serious actors” let go and do really silly fun stuff that they a...
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