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A Very Holly Moosemas
A Very Holly Moosemas
12/5 - 12/14/2025


It’s August in Atlanta but Holly Anderson is convinced she can transform a movie set into a wooded, mountain Christmas masterpiece. With the assistance of ...



Review: A CHRISTMAS CRISIS at Q Theatre, Auckland


by Glenda Pearce - December 10, 2025

What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CRISIS at Q Theatre, Auckland?...

Review: Jessica Vosk Brings Music and Mirth to Berklee Performance Center With SLEIGH


by R. Scott Reedy - December 10, 2025

What did our critic think of JESSICA VOSK SLEIGH at Berklee Performance Center?...

Review: THE LION KING at The Paramount Theatre


by Shelley Dean - December 10, 2025

Stage adaptations of movies are always tricky, but there’s a certain level of prestige that comes with adapting and pulling off one of the most loved and highly regarded movie adaptations of all time. The Lion King holds a deep residency in so many hearts, having loved the movie from a very early ag...

Review: THE BIG FAT CHRISTMAS SHOW at El Portal Theatre


by Amanda Callas - December 10, 2025

Standout moments include “Lonely Jew”  by a brilliant Rena Strober, which made the entire evening for me.  This hilarious and wildly irreverent ode to the holiday season includes Strober belting “Oy Vey Maria” and pulling missing Hanukkah candles out of her lady bits to add to her menorah.  I could ...

Review: PARADE at Ground Floor Theatre


by Joni Lorraine - December 10, 2025

While Austin stages overflow in December with CHRISTMAS CAROLS (three!), TUNA CHRISTMASES (two!), and all manner of holiday theatre cheer, a brilliant star shines at Ground Floor Theatre: Alfred Uhry’s PARADE. First produced in 2015 during GFT’s inaugural season, this remount stands as a striking fu...

Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at The Phoenix Theatre Company


by Herbert Paine - December 10, 2025

The Phoenix Theatre Company’s production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL arrives as both a tribute and a celebration: a tribute to the late Alan Ruch, whose melodic and heartfelt score anchors the show, and a celebration of community, renewal, and theatrical craft....

Review: CHRISTMAS WITH THE TABERNACLE CHOIR at the LDS Conference Center


by Hayley Westwood - December 10, 2025

The Christmas season is a time to bask in the thrill of hope, and watching this year’s exquisite 25th anniversary special “Hope of the Season – Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir featuring Ruthie Ann Miles and Dennis Haysbert” is one of the best ways to slow down and truly take in the joys of Chris...

Review: BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, Young Vic


by Franco Milazzo - December 10, 2025

Bengal Tiger At Baghdad Zoo, arriving now at the Young Vic for its long-overdue European premiere, is ostensibly about the American occupation of Iraq. Really, though, Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer-nominated work is about two things: a gold-plated toilet seat stolen from Uday Hussein (son of Saddam and re...

Review: ARIODANTE, Royal Ballet and Opera


by Gary Naylor - December 10, 2025

Musically impressive with real high points, the drama does not quite hold together...

Review: ARIODANTE, Royal Ballet and Opera


by Gary Naylor - December 10, 2025

Musically impressive with real high points, the drama does not quite hold together...

Past Shows

Misery
Misery
10/31 - 11/9/2025


Misery  follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive ...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead


Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead  plucks two minor characters from Shakespeare’s  Hamlet  and thrusts them into the spotlight…only to have them wrestle with mortality, existential ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat


One of the most enduring shows of all time,  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  is a reimagining of the Biblical story of Joseph, his ...

A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
4/4 - 4/13/2025


Set on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s, Lorraine Hansberry’s celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: ...

9 to 5: The Musical
9 to 5: The Musical
2/28 - 3/9/2025


Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic. Pushed ...

Elizabethan Madrigal Feast
Elizabethan Madrigal Feast
11/29 - 12/15/2024


Christmas arrives each year with a certain excitement and magic. On even-numbered years since 1988, The Center for the Arts & Sciences’  Elizabethan Madrigal Feast  transports ...

Lobby Hero
Lobby Hero
11/1 - 11/10/2024


What happens when emotions come in conflict with principles, and how do choices under pressure define who we really are? Four New Yorkers involved in ...

The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
9/13 - 9/22/2024


Neil Simon’s classic comedy opens as a group of the guys are in the midst of their weekly poker game in the apartment of divorced ...

The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
9/13 - 9/22/2024


Neil Simon’s classic comedy opens as a group of the guys are in the midst of their weekly poker game in the apartment of divorced ...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
7/12 - 7/21/2024


Take a fantastic musical adventure with an out-of-this-world car that flies through the air and sails the seas, based on the beloved 1968 film version ...

Side by Side by Sondheim Dinner Theater


Join us for a dinner theater featuring the beloved musical revue,  Side by Side by Sondheim , February 14-18. Tickets are $40 per person and ...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever


In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the ...

Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
10/27 - 11/5/2023


This masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene! A dangerous and sinister ...

The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong
9/8 - 9/17/2023


Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production,  The Murder at Haversham Manor , where things are quickly going from bad ...

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
7/7 - 7/16/2023


The   Sound of Music  is an intimate, heartfelt telling of one of history’s most thrilling and inspirational stories. This final collaboration between Rodgers & ...

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express


Board the exotic and mysterious Orient Express with beloved detective Hercule Poirot as he battles the clock to figure out “whodunit” in this murder mystery that ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
9/9 - 9/18/2022


A tight-knit group of Louisiana women gather regularly at Truvys beauty salon to bond, dish and offer advice on everything from motherhood to tragedy and ...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast


The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the ...

Sistas the Musical
Sistas the Musical
3/25 - 4/3/2022


After a matriarchs death, the women in the family clean Grandmothers attic and find love and old memories packed away, and in the process, hit ...

An Evening with Robert Walzel


Brazosport Symphony Orchestra is welcoming home Lake Jacksons own Robert Walzel in "An Evening with Robert Walzel" on Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 PM at ...

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NYE Gala, featuring Murder on the Orient Express in Houston NYE Gala, featuring Murder on the Orient Express
Theatre Southwest (12/31 - 12/31)
Liverpool Legends The Complete Beatles Experience! in Houston Liverpool Legends The Complete Beatles Experience!
Jefferson Theatre (1/25 - 1/25)
Who's Holiday! in Houston Who's Holiday!
MATCH (Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston) (12/18 - 12/21)
Beautiful The Carole King Musical in Houston Beautiful The Carole King Musical
Theatre Under The Stars (5/19 - 5/31)
Modern Folk – Multicultural Roots in Houston Modern Folk – Multicultural Roots
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (1/30 - 1/31)
Irving Berlin's White Christmas in Houston Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Theatre Under The Stars (12/9 - 12/24)
'Twas The Night Before Christmas in Houston 'Twas The Night Before Christmas
Company OnStage (12/6 - 12/20)
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