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Houston Is Inspired 2025-2026 Residency Recipients Unveiled
by BWW News Desk - August 28, 2025
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts swung the doors wide open for artists and arts organizations across Houston to apply for participation in the Houston is Inspired initiative. Learn about the recipients here!
PURLIE VICTORIOUS to Open Main Street Theater 50th Season
by BWW News Desk - August 28, 2025
Main Street Theater will open its 50th Season with the regional premiere of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch by Ossie Davis. Learn more!
​Theatre Under The Stars Receives $150K Grant to Launch Disney Musicals in Schools Program
by BWW News Desk - August 27, 2025
​Theatre Under The Stars has received a $150,000 grant from Disney to bring the Disney Musicals in Schools program to the Greater Houston Area. Learn more here!
THE BODY SNATCHER World Premiere to be Presented at Alley Theatre
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2025
Alley Theatre has revealed the cast of The Body Snatcher. Alley Associate Artistic Director Brandon Weinbrenner directs Katie Forgette’s spine-tingling love story. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!
Tickets to THE OUTSIDERS at the Hobby Center to go on Sale This Week
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2025
Individual tickets for the Tony Award winning Best Musical, The Outsiders, based on the seminal novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark motion picture, will go on sale Friday, August 29 at 10AM at The Hobby Center.
Houston Grand Opera to Present MUSIC-STORIES-OPERA! In September 23 At Miller Outdoor Theatre
by BWW News Desk - August 26, 2025
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present Music-Stories-OPERA!, a free program for students and families, daily from Tuesday through Thursday, September 23 through 25, at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION at MIGHTY ACORN PRODUCTIONS
by Brett Cullum - August 22, 2025
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 the fate they dodged.
Deconstructing Directing Launches The Upstream Director's Studio To Support 30,000+ Theatre Directors
by BWW News Desk - August 21, 2025
Deconstructing Directing, the free online library transforming how directors learn and grow, is proud to announce the launch of The Upstream Director's Studio, a groundbreaking professional development program designed specifically for the tens of thousands of directors working in schools, universities, and community theatres across the country.
Review: LIFE OF PI at Hobby Center For The Performing Arts
by Armando Urdiales - August 20, 2025
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 perplexing forms of play to grace a Houston stage this summer.
Houston Grand Opera to Present 2025 Butler Studio Showcase
by BWW News Desk - August 20, 2025
The Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio will present the annual Butler Studio Showcase in the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center. Learn more!
Cast Theatrical Company To Continue Season After Devastating Fire
by BWW News Desk - August 19, 2025
Cast Theatrical Company will continue its season after a devastating fire destroyed its longtime home in Downtown Rosenberg. Remaining performances of She Was Marginally Modest will run through August 31 at a temporary location nearby.
Review: PULLMAN, WA at The Phoenix Group
by Brett Cullum - August 15, 2025
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.
EIGHT NOTES TO HEAVEN Debuts at the Matchbox Theater
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2025
Vincent Victoria Presents (VVP), the award‑winning nonprofit theater company, known for its portrayals of African Diaspora history, will release its latest cinematic venture, Eight Notes to Heaven.
Untitled Art launches Inaugural Commission Prize with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
by BWW News Desk - August 14, 2025
In the lead-up to its inaugural Houston edition at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Untitled Art has announced the CAMH Commission Prize supported by Untitled Art.
BACH'S DIVINE COMEDY to Launch Ars Lyrica Houston 2025/26 Season
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2025
Ars Lyrica Houston will kick off its 2025/26 season, Twists of Fate, with Bach’s Divine Comedy, a dynamic and theatrical program that reveals the many sides of J.S. Bach. Learn more!
Houston Grand Opera To Host 50 YEARS OF THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS IN HOUSTON: ART, CULTURE, AND AMERICAN IDENTITY
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2025
Houston Grand Opera will host 50 Years of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess in Houston: Art, Culture, and American Identity on September 16, 2025, in partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston.
Rec Room Arts to Present ANGELS IN AMERICA in Full Rotating Repertory
by BWW News Desk - August 13, 2025
Rec Room Arts will stage Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in full—Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika—in rotating repertory at its 60-seat downtown Houston venue from November 6 through December 20, 2025.
Ars Lyrica Houston Reveals 2025/26 Season
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2025
Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2025/26 season, Twists of Fate, invites audiences into a world shaped by unpredictable forces - where love, loss, and destiny unfold through music that’s as powerful today as it was centuries ago.
Tickets to A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at the Hobby Center to go on Sale This Week
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2025
Individual tickets for A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL at the Hobby Center will go on sale this week. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!
Alley Theatre Awarded $10,000 Grant From Texas Women for the Arts to Expand Arts Education Access
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2025
Alley Theatre is one of the select community organizations to receive a 2025 grant from ​Texas Women for the Arts. Learn more about the organization and about the grant here.
Houston Chamber Choir to Present Mozart Requiem, With Members Of The Houston Symphony
by BWW News Desk - August 12, 2025
The Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir will present Mozart Requiem (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) for the 2025-26 season opener, conducted by new Artistic Director Dr. Betsy Cook Weber. Learn more!
Review: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA sparkles at Sankofa Collective
by Brett Cullum - August 10, 2025
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.
Interview: Aaron Alon of THE CHOSEN ONES at Thunderclap Productions
by Brett Cullum - August 07, 2025
And I realized that this is a subject that I feel like we've stopped talking about, even though it's still a really big deal. The big national organization, Exodus, had been dissolved. And that's a really interesting story, actually, about how that ended. And they had so much more presence in the media when there was this big national group over it. They fragmented into all these different pieces.
The Hobby Center to Offer Buy One, Get One Free Tickets During Houston Theater Week
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2025
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts has revealed nineteen performances that will be included in Houston Theater Week 2025. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!
Robert Lenzi, Tyce Green and More Set for Reworked AMERICAN PSYCHO: THE MUSICAL
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2025
Houston Broadway Theatre has revealed the cast and creatives for the Houston Premiere of American Psycho: The Musical. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

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