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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.
It probably helps that Domenico Leona is a poet, and that Ashley Galan just knows theater so dang well.
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.
What did our critic think of IOLANTHE at Gilbert And Sullivan Society Of Houston?
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.
Honky Tonk Laundry finally gets its due, five years after it closed, or rather didn’t even open, because of the pandemic.
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.
PARADE asks a lot of its audience.
We know this is a vaudeville production from the start, and the cast revels in the buffoonery.
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.
This nostalgic, Tony Award–winning 1983 musical is all about family dynamics.
Inside My Walls is a rare chance to see why dance is so magical.
When divorced couple Elyot and Amanda accidentally find themselves honeymooning with their new spouses—and sharing adjacent balconies—sparks fly and tempers flare in a whirlwind of passion and humor.
It’s a quick hour-and-twenty-minute script that became the basis for a sitcom, and guess what? It pretty much feels like watching a taping of a television comedy.
With expert direction, brilliant acting, and masterly design elements, Rec Room Arts latest outing of Danny Tejera's Toros is a production that will leave Houston audiences with complicated emotions about this coming-of-age story.
This is a revival for Theatre Under the Stars, who first presented IN THE HEIGHTS in 2016.
They have managed to restage BUG for 2025, and boy, is it a doozy! You don’t want to miss this revival and reimagining of the Tracy Letts cult classic.
Written by playwright Melda Beaty and directed by The Ensemble Theatre’s Artistic Director Eileen J.
And what of Wesley Whitson as Hamlet, perhaps the most challenging role in the entire canon of Shakespeare’s works? He is age-appropriate and fiercely dives into the madness for the first two-thirds, and then becomes steely and predatory for the final acts.
This is the first time Denise Fennell is playing herself, and it only took fifty years to get her here into the role she was born to play.
A hootin’, hollerin’, good time as a heroic Germanic saga goes Texan.
The national tour of The Wiz, currently running at Houston's Hobby Center through May 4, 2025, delivers a vocally powerful revival of the 1975 Tony Award-winning musical.
Come and get a sweet taste of this new production of the hit musical WAITRESS from Theatre Under The Stars and The 5th Avenue Theatre.
Stages Houston has wisely brought in DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY for its last hurrah, and she is doing a mini-residency that the purveyor of plastic is in the middle of until April 20th.
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A Streetcar Named Desire Pearl Theatre (7/17-7/20) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat A.D. Players at the George Theater (6/24-8/02) |
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Tamarie's Greatest Hits, Volume 3 The Catastrophic Theatre (6/19-8/01) |
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical Hobby Center for Performing Arts (7/14-7/19) |
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Therapy Gecko Punch Line Houston (9/20-9/20) |
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Moulin Rouge! Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (7/14-7/19) |
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Moulin Rouge – The Musical Sarofim Hall (7/14-7/12) |
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Newsies National Youth Theater (7/31-8/09) |
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Cowabunga Alvin College Theatre (7/28-7/30) |
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Descendants the Musical National Youth Theater (7/11-7/12) |
