by Jonathan Netek - April 23, 2026
Building Fences, Breaking Bonds: A Powerful Portrait of Family and Fallout...
by Jonathan Netek - April 17, 2026
Widely considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest works, and typically ranked alongside tragedies like Macbeth and Hamlet, OTHELLO explores themes of jealousy, racism, and the destructive nature of unchecked emotion. The play follows its title character, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, as he...
by Brett Cullum - April 14, 2026
AN IDEAL MAN is a fun spin on the source material, and it’s charming and affable in its delivery. I like the idea of the cast of DYNASTY suddenly being thrust into Oscar Wilde’s England via River Oaks....
by Brett Cullum - April 13, 2026
You really need a talented group of singers, and THE GARDEN THEATRE has put together a stacked cast of musical actors who have appeared in their shows over the last five years....
by Jonathan Netek - April 08, 2026
From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the 6 wives of Henry VIII take the mic and remix 500 years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st-century HERstory. ...
by Jonathan Netek - April 05, 2026
The best kind of group therapy, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS at Stages Houston...
by Brett Cullum - April 01, 2026
Sir Tom Stoppard’s last play, LEOPOLDSTADT, is his most personal. He wrote a narrative loosely based on his own family, changed the location to Austria, and finally wrote a Jewish script. The show debuted in London in 2020 and ran on Broadway from 2022 to 2023. It garnered the Tony for best play t...
by Brett Cullum - March 28, 2026
The whole show is well-produced, well-acted, and a lot of fun to watch. It’s endearing, funny, and it actually speaks to something deeper than you would expect....
by Jonathan Netek - March 25, 2026
Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, Some Like It Hot is set in Chicago during Prohibition, when everyone is thirsty for a little excitement. ...
by Brett Cullum - March 17, 2026
Director Rob Melrose certainly knows how to pick actors and designers who know their craft and live it, while the rest merely exist....
Past Shows
Junie B. Jones is having a rough day – no, scratch that, a rough week! First off, she is about to lose her first tooth. What will...
When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea....
Giraffes are gentlemen, aardvarks are card sharks, and animals rule the world in this retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. When young lioness Violet is separated from her...
The play follows the escapades of two charming bachelors, Jack and Algernon, who lead double lives to escape their social obligations. Jack pretends to have...
“‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” But wait! A mouse is stirring – because...
Instead of performing Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told – plus Christmas...
A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried...
Finally! Frankenstein is kid-friendly! Frankie and Irving are science nerds who have an unusual idea for the upcoming Science Fair. When Doctor Frankenstein’s ancient secret book...
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out...
Left alone at the dinner table to finish the remains of his meal (a single, enormous pea), 8-year-old Evan wishes he had a real live...
This show tells the tale of the relationship between O’Neill and Gilpin and their fight from rehearsal to Broadway run and, eventually, to the London...
Little Red Riding Hood, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and the Three Little Pigs had it wrong when they accused the wolves of being bad....
In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenage son.Produced by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.comDirected by Ricky RojasPerformances run Jan. 31st – Feb. 22nd, 2025, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm, and Sunday, Feb. 9th @ 2pm...
Tomás, the son of migrant farm workers, Meets a librarian who introduces him to the wonderful world of books. The stories enrich the lives of Tomás' family and instill a love of reading. This is the inspiring true story of Tomás Rivera, who grew up in a migrant worker family, befriended a librarian in Iowa, and learned to love books and the places they took him. Tomás went on to a successful career in academia and became the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. Adapted from the well-loved book, this play can be readily understood by both English and Spanish speakers.Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., of Woodstock, Illinois.Directed by Crystal MataPerformances February 1 - 22, 2025 - Saturdays at 11am and 1:30pm, and Sunday, February 16, at 2pm....
This new play version of the delightful meeting of two of literature’s most famous young ladies unfolds when a young man puts off a book...
Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. from May 2 to May 23, 2020. Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on May 10, 2020. Tickets: $10....
Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. from March 14 - April 4, 2020. Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on March 22, 2020. Tickets: $10....
Based on the beloved tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the story of the little mermaid, Pearl, is brought to life for the stage in this...
George, a professor at a small college, and his wife Martha, have just returned home drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general...
George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home from a Saturday night party. Martha announces amidst general profanity,...
A Seussified Christmas Carol by Peter Bloedel. Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. from Dec. 7 to Dec. 21, 2019, with a matinee at...
Scrooge Macbeth by David MacGregor. Friday and Saturday nights 8:00 p.m. from Dec. 6 - Dec. 21, 2019, with Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m. on...
Local Authors Series: A Magical Evening of Magical Theater Magic: Selected Works of Ben Plopper. Thursday - Saturday at 8:00 p.m. from Nov. 7 -...
![{adjective}[noun] A Theatrical Symphony in Eighteen Movements](https://cloudimages2.broadwayworld.com/regionalshows/ndB486CC4C-D64C-4D59-9D56BF32F8E21DDE.jpg?format=auto&width=212)
Absurdist. Deconstructionist. Sagittarian. The works of award-winning playwright Nicholas Garelick have delighted audiences throughout Houston for years. A graduate of the University of Houston and...
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist, and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an...
From Emmy Award-winning writer Jane Anderson (Mad Men) comes this “magnetic work of theater” (San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, hope and humor. Two wildly different couples—one...
Videos