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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Will Play at Cone Man Running Productions This July
by BWW News Desk - June 20, 2025


Cone Man Running Productions will present To Kill a Mockingbird, running July 11 through 26, 2025, at Studio 101 in Spring Street Studios, Houston. The production is directed by Christine Weems and features a cast composed entirely of Houston’s legal community.

The Hobby Center Unveils Live at the Founders Club 2025-2026 Season
by BWW News Desk - June 17, 2025


The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts has revealed the Live at the Founders Club 2025-2026 Season. Learn more about the upcoming performances and see how to purchase tickets!

Review: INSIDE MY WALLS at Ishida Dance
by Brett Cullum - June 13, 2025


Inside My Walls is a rare chance to see why dance is so magical. The intimacy of the Asia Society’s theater allows you to see every extension, and often hear even the breaths that these performers take. If you have not witnessed this company, this weekend is your chance.

Apollo Chamber Players to Release BAN: Stories of Censorship Featuring George Takei
by BWW News Desk - June 12, 2025


Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players will release their eighth album, BAN: Stories of Censorship, on August 22, 2025 via Azica Records. The digital release will be followed by a physical CD and limited vinyl edition on September 5.

Alley All New Festival Developments Head To Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - June 12, 2025


Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre has announced that Torera by Monet Hurst-Mendoza and Thornton Wilder's The Emporium, completed by Kirk Lynn, will both receive Off-Broadway productions in the 2025–26 season.

Interview: Tamarie Cooper & Kyle Sturdivant of ANOTHER DING DANG TAMARIE SHOW
by Brett Cullum - June 10, 2025


This show is a Houston summer tradition, and it is the Catastrophic Theatre's version of A Christmas Carol at the Alley or The Nutcracker at the Houston Ballet. Except every year, this one's a new script and a new ball of crazy to enjoy.

Unapologetically Bold: Melissa Pritchett on Finding Fierceness in let.her.rip at STAGES
by Armando Urdiales - June 10, 2025


In let.her.rip, Melissa Pritchett tackles one of her boldest roles yet—a fierce, unapologetic woman in a powerful new play by Maggie Lou Rader. She shares what drew her to the script, how Liza came to life in rehearsal, and why this story matters in today’s theatre landscape.

LSC-CyFair's Children's Comedy Set For This Month
by BWW News Desk - June 10, 2025


Cool off this summer with Lone Star College-CyFair's Drama Department Summer Children's Show 'The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood' this June. Learn more here!

Clear Springs, Stratford, and Carver High Schools Take Top Honors at 2025 Tommy Tune Awards
by BWW News Desk - June 09, 2025


Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) celebrated Houston’s brightest young theatre talent at the 2025 Tommy Tune Awards, honoring excellence in high school musical theatre. The evening brought together schools from across the region to celebrate student achievement in performance, design, and direction.

Two Texas Theatre Stories Take Center Stage at AACTFest 2025
by BWW News Desk - June 09, 2025


Two standout representatives from Texas will head to the national spotlight this June during the American Association of Community Theatre’s biennial festival, AACTFest 2025, taking place June 25–28 at the historic Hoyt Sherman Place Theater in Des Moines, Iowa.

Review: LET.HER.RIP. at Stages Houston
by Brett Cullum - June 06, 2025


LET.HER.RIP. is the show to see this summer! It will be one we will refer back to again and again. Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, and the Matchstick Women would be proud.

Houston Chamber Choir Reveals 2025-2026 Lineup For FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2025


The Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir proudly announces its 2025–26 season, Friends and Neighbors, marking the first full season under the direction of Artistic Director Dr. Betsy Cook Weber.

Tickets Now On Sale For Gilbert & Sullivan Society Of Houston's IOLANTHE Operetta At Hobby Center
by BWW News Desk - June 04, 2025


Tickets are now available for the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston's summer production of Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri). Learn more!

ANOTHER DING DANG TAMARIE SHOW World Premiere is Coming to The Catastrophic Theatre
by BWW News Desk - June 03, 2025


The Catastrophic Theatre will present the World Premiere of ANOTHER DING DANG TAMARIE SHOW. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets to the production here!

Miss Marple to Make Her U.S. Stage Debut in Agatha Christie’s THE MIRROR CRACK'D at Alley Theatre
by BWW News Desk - June 03, 2025


Alley Theatre has revealed the cast and creative team of Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets here!

Interview: Derek Charles Livingston of LET.HER.RIP. at Stages Houston
by Brett Cullum - June 02, 2025


I've known about Maggie and this play for four years. In fact, when I was at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Director of Play Development, I chose this play for one of our development processes. So I was part of this play's development. There have been subsequent workshops, and I didn't know this at the time, but Maggie was inspired to write this play because of Breonna Taylor.

Interview: Brett Ishida of INSIDE MY WALLS at Ishida Dance Company
by Brett Cullum - May 31, 2025


I thought there must be a way to create really beautiful, high-level productions that people understand and walk away with meaning.

Performance Added For KIM'S CONVENIENCE at Main Street Theater
by BWW News Desk - May 30, 2025


Due to popular demand, Main Street Theater has added a performance of Kim's Convenience on Sunday, June 8 at 7:00pm. Learn more about how to get tickets here!

Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Alley Theatre
by Jonathan Netek - May 29, 2025


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. Director KJ Sanchez brings a fresh twist to Noël Coward’s timeless comedy, transporting us from 1930s Argentina to Uruguay.

Previews: UNVEILING at The Hobby Center
by Brett Cullum - May 29, 2025


Grammy Award-winning soprano Ana María Martínez, with Broadway music director and conductor Andy Einhorn, will be at The Hobby Center this Saturday at 7:30 pm in the Zilkha Hall.

Review: KIM'S CONVENIENCE at Main Street Theater
by Brett Cullum - May 28, 2025


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. It’s light, fluffy, and fun. It’s like summer ice cream, and this one will be a natural audience pleaser to round out this company’s season.

Photos: Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES at Alley Theatre
by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2025


Alley Theatre is preseting Noël Coward's Private Lives. Director KJ Sanchez brings a fresh twist to Coward’s timeless comedy, infusing tango in 1930s Argentina and Uruguay. See photos here!

Review: TOROS at Rec Room Arts
by Armando Urdiales - May 26, 2025


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. While Tejera's work is a dramedy, Rec Room Arts decision to delve into this story, with its themes of toxic masculinity, the transition into adulthood, and the complexities of friendship, is a genius one.

Interview: Katherine Rinaldi of JULIUS CAESAR at Boiling Point Players & Cone Man Running
by Brett Cullum - May 24, 2025


Boiling Point Players are joining forces to recreate this reimagining of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar—set not in ancient Rome, but behind the bars of Rome Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum-security prison where power is currency and betrayal is a daily threat.

Review: IN THE HEIGHTS at Theatre Under The Stars
by Brett Cullum - May 23, 2025


This is a revival for Theatre Under the Stars, who first presented IN THE HEIGHTS in 2016. It replaced GREASE as their season opener way back then, which marked an inevitable transition in the company’s artistic direction and commitment to the evolution of musical theater.


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