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
Houston Grand Opera will present a new production of Verdi’s Il trovatore, directed by Stephen Wadsworth, opening on October 18, 2024. The opera unfolds in...
7:30 pm. The world premiere of composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney’s new opera, based on the beloved children’s book by Jack Ezra...
Renowned mezzo-soprano and HGO Studio alumna Jamie Barton delights as Julia Child in Lee Hoiby’s one-woman opera. Based on an episode of Child’s TV program,...
Mozart’s brief opera—featuring warring divas, a show within a show, and one of the composer’s greatest overtures—gets an English-language retelling from playwright Jim Luigs, the...
Attention, Best in Show fans: Get ready to laugh uproariously at this chamber opera from composer David T. Little and librettist Royce Vavrek, a hilarious...
Spend an evening with tomorrow’s opera stars—the wonderful young artists who, after intense competition, have been selected to train in the prestigious HGO Studio—as they...
HGO Digital will present the Live from the Cullen Recital Series, featuring opera stars Tamara Wilson, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Reginald Smith Jr., and select HGO Studio...
The Historic Trip that Broke 25 Years of Silence. Nixon in China, an original HGO commission and a pivotal piece of the modern opera repertoire,...
The femme fatale is ubiquitous in literature, from the biblical Delilah to Shakespeare's Cleopatra to the smoky, dangerous beauties of the film noir era. But...
This stunning production takes us to a mythical world of dwarfs and gods, magical helmets, and a ring that endows its wearer with ultimate power....
"Send in the Clowns" and elegant waltzes drive this bittersweet story-the winner of six Tony awards including best musical, book, and score. Old flames are...
An intimate afternoon conversation triggers a searing examination of the past in this tour-de-force written for superstar Frederica von Stade. The story is rich with...
Rigoletto, jester to the Duke of Mantua, is both reviled and respected for his razor-sharp, bitter wit. His only joy is his daughter, Gilda, whom...
Memory can comfort, torment-even terrify-but it is always with us. As Faulkner wrote, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." The horrors of the...
Prince Orlofsky's costume ball-the most coveted invitation of the year-drives the action of this urbane farce by Johann Strauss.Captivating serenades, a famous Hungarian csárdás, and,...
Aida, an Ethiopian princess enslaved to Amneris, the princess of Egypt, has fallen in love with the warrior Radames. As he rides into battle, Aida...
The opera is set in fifteenth-century Spain, a period of civil war. The present ruler, the Prince of Aragon, is battling the forces of the...
Tristan has left his ancestral home to serve his uncle, King Marke of Cornwall, who, childless, has made him heir to the throne. Cornwall has...
Where is home? Is it where we are born? Or where we live most of our lives? Is it with the family we leave behind...
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