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Get ready for a wild ride through love, lust, loss and everything in between! Short Attention Span Series, Vol. 1 is the brand-new annual showcase packed...
Award winning director and playwright Vincent Victoria premieres a new play spotlighting forgotten African American athletes from the past. The show is partially sponsored by...
Award winning director and playwright Vincent Victoria premieres a new play spotlighting forgotten African American athletes from the past. The show is partially sponsored by...
Between Riverside & Crazy, a play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, opens on February 20 at Theatre Southwest. This play won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for...
Written and directed by local playwright, Matt Carlin. In this heartwarming comedy, rookie angels Nick and Jenna return to Earth to help a nervous groom,...
Language, Connection, And Finding Your VoiceWinner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize! This heartfelt, humorous play follows five strangers in an Iranian TOEFL class as they...
The Chinese Lady — written by Lloyd Suh and inspired by the true story of the first Chinese woman to step foot in America —...
Tiny Beautiful Things — based on the bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding),...
Step into the living room…and buckle up.In this blistering, darkly funny masterpiece, George and Martha invite a younger couple over for drinks after a faculty...
AN IDEAL MAN is a world premiere adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, set in Houston, 1985, adapted and directed by Ruth S. McCleskey.SynopsisHouston,...
Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with...
Seven Questions, Three Actors, One AlienAfter captivating audiences nationwide with Born with Teeth, playwright Liz Duffy Adams returns to the Alley in her thought-provoking world premiere....
He’s Her Obsession, She’s His NightmareFamous romance author Paul is rescued from a car crash by his "number one fan.” As Annie nurses Paul to...
Vampire Count Fritz Fangful and his devoted assistant, Igor, have lived comfortably in the cellar of Rattrap Manor awaiting the perfect beauty whose blood will...
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by Brett Cullum - March 04, 2026
The book is full of mysteries, unspoken judgements, and a vicious sense of classism mixed with ruthless self-preservation, and there is not a lot of this present in this interpretation, brought to life by Kait Kerrigan's book, Jason Howland's music, and Fitzgerald-inspired lyrics by Nathan Tysen....
by Brett Cullum - March 03, 2026
KATY PERRY CANDY DARLING MARY MAGDELANE is a play with songs about how a musician meets Katy Perry, and how it impacts their life. It is also a comedy about a band trying to record a perfect pop song. It is a live concert....
by Jonathan Netek - February 21, 2026
Small Talk Turns to Tough Talk and Everything Changes....
by Jonathan Netek - February 20, 2026
ENGLISH, written by playwright Sanaz Toossi, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and crafts an intimate, devastating portrait of language—as both bridge and barrier. Set in an Iranian classroom, the play unfolds less as a traditional narrative and more as a series of moments unfolding over time....
by Brett Cullum - February 16, 2026
The show introduces us to a half dozen stories from one car, and it’s an interesting look at how humans interact, or in some cases, don’t....
by Brett Cullum - February 12, 2026
You are in a room with eight excellent performers doing songs purely for the joy of getting to sing them for an audience....
by Brett Cullum - February 11, 2026
It’s funny, it’s clever, but it sometimes seems to get too caught up in itself as a script. Yet the acting here is top-notch, and the Mildred’s Umbrella production is a wonder in such a small space. Jennifer Decker’s direction is sublime, and she has a solid cast....
by Armando Urdiales - February 01, 2026
What did our critic think of HANSEL AND GRETEL at Houston Grand Opera?...
by Jonathan Netek - February 01, 2026
Wilde’s wit shines at Company OnStage....
by Brett Cullum - January 30, 2026
It’s funny, it’s warm, and you walk away feeling as if you saw a community revealed....
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