Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Houston Broadway Theatre
The Bells Ring Loud Through The Wortham.…
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Review: FADE TO BLACK at Shabach Enterprise
You get an entire evening of short bursts of brilliance, kinda like a fireworks show to commemorate Juneteenth. This year, all ten entries are extremely solid in both what they say and who says them.…
Review: WAITING / REX at ISHIDA
ISHIDA DANCE had a world premiere with their presentation of waiting / REX at the Asia Society Texas Center. This program is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Both are choreographed by the company’s artistic director.…
Review: CLUE from BROADWAY AT THE HOBBY CENTER
There’s not much to critique here; CLUE is just fun. If you love the game or the movie, you know what you are in for ahead of time. It’s an hour and twenty minutes that flies by, leaves you laughing, and lets you forget the world for a bit.…
Review: MISERY at ALLEY THEATRE
Whether you’re a #1 fan of Stephen King or just coming in the door, this MISERY is worth enduring. The acting is top-notch, and the tech puts the film to shame.…
Review: SPAMILTON & 21 CHUMP STREET at Stages Houston
It’s a Broadway Roast in this hilarious double bill!…
Review: AIRLINE HIGHWAY at DIRT DOGS THEATRE CO.
AIRLINE HIGHWAY is a fascinating slice of life from Lisa D’Amour. It feels like we are watching everything happen in real time, and it seems so authentic to New Orleans. It has a wonderful sense of place.…
Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at THEATRE UNDER THE STARS
TUTS makes it live up to its name. It’s a handsome production, a great cast, and it feels like an old faithful friend. When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand, just call the box office. …
Review: THAT DRIVE THRU MONTEREY at Stages Houston
Young Love, Love Lost and Genuine Storytelling in Stages’ Sin Muros Festival’s first fully developed production.…
Review: DEAR ALIEN at Alley Theatre
This is Sartre for the America of today, and the Alley Theatre kicks it off in grand style in its Neuhaus auditorium below their mainstage.…
Past Shows
Sense & Sensibility
Sense & Sensibility, a delightful romantic comedy by Kate Hamill, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen, opens May 29 and runs through June 13 at...
The Foreigner
Theatre Southwest presents "The Foreigner", a hilarious comedy by Larry Shue, which runs April 10-25 at their new location (3939 Hillcroft, Ste 160). At a...
Between Riverside & Crazy
Between Riverside & Crazy, a play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, opens on February 20 at Theatre Southwest. This play won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for...
Readers' Theatre
Theatre Southwest's annual Readers' Theatre event gives voice to works from independent playwrights. Join us on Sunday, January 18th and enjoy our 20th offering of...
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery. adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious...
NYE Gala, featuring "Murder on the Orient Express"
Welcome the New Year with your friends at Theatre Southwest. Join us for our NYE Gala, an evening of fun, frivolity, food ... and a play!...
Lone Star Spirits
Lone Star Spirits, a ghost story comedy written by Josh Tobiessen and directed by Randall Packer, will open (appropriately) on Halloween night, October 31, and...
FeaturedIncident at Vichy
Theatre Southwest opens its 69th season on September 12 with Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy"
2025 Festival of Originals (The FOO)
Theatre Southwest presents the 28th annual Festival of Originals.
Mary, Mary
The titular character Mary is a compulsively wise-cracking magazine editor who uses her sense of humor to shield her insecurities, while her ex-husband Bob is...
On Golden Pond
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He...
Mr Pim Passes By
In this light-hearted and charming comedy Mr. Pim is only passing through town, but an off-hand revelation manages to throw the entire household into chaos....
Comedy of Tenors
Comedy of Tenorsby Ken LudwigDirected by Sean K. Thompson One hotel suite, four tenors, 2 wives, three girlfriends and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans. ...
Festival of Originals (FOO)
Theatre Southwest Presents The Festival of Originals – otherwise known as The FOOThe Festival of Originals is an annual occurrence, in which playwrights all around...
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
"Can you be a dispassionate, uninvolved observer of horrific events, recording them for posterity, and still keeping a sense of right and wrong, not to...
Murderer
A painter, who is obsessed with famous murderers of the past, takes great pleasure in recreating their crimes, and hopes to one day join their...
Return Engagements
Nov 3 - 18, 2023 - Fridays, Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees (Nov 5 & 12) at 3 p.m.
A Doll's House, Part 2
Smart, funny and utterly engrossing. It has been fifteen years since Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, when a knock comes...
The Festival of Originals
Theatre Southwest Presents The Festival of Originals – otherwise known as The FOOThe Festival of Originals is an annual occurrence, in which playwrights all around...
The Deer and the Antelope Play
Theatre Southwest is proud to present Mark Dunn's "The Deer and the Antelope Play," a serious comedy.Three generations of an East Texas family - a...
Silent Sky
Written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Sam Martinez, is the startling and beautiful story of a brilliant, history making woman previously unknown to many...
Everybody Loves Opal
Everybody Loves Opal by John PatrickDirected by Steve CarpentierComedy. Opal, a middle-aged recluse, lives in a tumbledown mansion at the edge of the municipal dump. Opal...
Outside Mullingar
Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley. Directed by Vicky McCormickA very Irish story with a surprising depth of poetic passion. Anthony and Rosemary are two...
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druten Directed by Jacqueline JeaneClassic sophisticated comedy. Gillian is one of the few modern people who can actually...
Stop Kiss by Diana Son
An exciting and moving play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably. After Callie meets Sara, the two unexpectedly fall...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinnerby Todd KreidlerDirected by Jay MenchacaA progressive white couple's proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings...
The Sunshine Boys
Al and Willie were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective,...
The Wisdom of Eve
When aging Broadway star Margo Crane allows Eve, a young fan, access to her dressing room, she is easily bamboozled by Eves show of adoration...
A Coupla Chicks Sitting Around Talking
Maude Mix is a pretty, strait-laced, and uptight Westchester housewife whose husband is currently abroad on a periodic extramarital jaunt with his secretary. From the...
Shipwrecked
With a bold imagination, Donald Margulies dares you to get whisked away in a story of high seas, populated by exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant...
Spotlight: Houston Playrights
Reader's Theatre by Houston playwrights....
California Suite
A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Chicago and New York and separately...
Enchanted April
A charming and romantic comedy based on the popular book Enchanted April.Takes place in the 1920's. Four women of very different personalities desire a break...
These Shing Lives
Based on a true story, this post war 1920's drama centers around newly employed Catherine and her coworkers at a watch factory. This new version...
Festival of Originals
5 original plays roughly 20 minutes each. 5 different directors, 5 different casts. Chosen from approx. 700 entries. Eclectic....
Stupid F%#@ing Bird
A sort of adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull. This wonderfully, fresh, raw, no-holds-barred play challenges the notion of what theatre was, is and could be....
Butterflies Are Free
A delightful romantic comedy. Blind since birth, Don Baker has lived with his overprotective mother and is finally independent and living in his own apartment....
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary Norwegian 1879 classic is once again at the forefront of women's changing place in the world. Nora and Torvald have a seemingly...
Barefoot in the Park
One of the most successful and charming laugh-out-loud Broadway comedies ever written. Paul and Corie are newlyweds in every sense of the word; he’s a...
The Memory of Water
After years of separation, three very different sisters come together to make arrangements for their mother's funeral in this bitingly savage dark comedy. Each of...
4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty grandmother Vera in her...
The 21st Annual Festival of Originals (The FOO)
The 21st Annual Festival of Originals Produced by Mimi Holloway The FOO consists of five, 20-minute original plays by five different playwrights, with five...
When We Were Young and Unafraid by Sarah Treem
In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of...
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat A.D. Players at the George Theater (6/24-8/02) |
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2026 Night Nation Run - Dallas, TX Texas Live! (9/12-9/12) |
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Mr. Toad's Mad Adventures Alvin College Theatre (6/23-6/25) |
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Drunk Pirates Emerald Theatre (5/14-9/19) |
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Descendants the Musical National Youth Theater (7/11-7/12) |
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Ed Sheeran at AT&T Stadium AT&T Stadium (10/24-10/24) |
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The Tavern by George M. Cohan Theatre Suburbia (7/24-8/22) |
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Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous Theatre Suburbia (6/05-7/03) |
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Anarkali Reimagined Luxtrium (10/22-10/25) |
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The Last of the Dragons Company OnStage (6/06-6/27) |
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