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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Review: THE CHOSEN ONES at Thunderclap Productions
The level of professionalism and the sheen on The Chosen Ones is gobsmacking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Review: PARADE at Broadway at The Hobby Center
PARADE asks a lot of its audience.
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.
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.
Review: THE TAP DANCE KID at The Ensemble Theatre
This nostalgic, Tony Award–winning 1983 musical is all about family dynamics.
Review: INSIDE MY WALLS at Ishida Dance
Inside My Walls is a rare chance to see why dance is so magical.
Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Alley Theatre
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.
Review: KIM'S CONVENIENCE at Main Street Theater
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.
Review: TOROS at Rec Room Arts
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.
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Oh, Mary! Theatre Under The Stars (4/27-5/09) |
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About Noah by Paula Coco Theatre Suburbia (9/18-10/17) |
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AC/DC NRG Stadium (8/31-8/31) |
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Christmas Belles by Jones, Hope & Wooten Theatre Suburbia (11/06-12/05) |
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The Constant Wife Theatre Southwest (4/09-5/01) |
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anthropology Theatre Southwest (10/30-11/21) |
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Anarkali Reimagined Luxtrium (10/22-10/25) PHOTOS |
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Come From Away BASTROP OPERA HOUSE (1/22-2/14) |
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Sweat Theatre Southwest (2/19-3/13) |