About the Theatre
Founded in 1957 and now in its 69th season, Theatre Southwest (TSW) has consistently maintained a reputation for offering exciting, relevant theatre. Plays by the most interesting playwrights, presented by accomplished casts and directors, set the standard at TSW. As one of Houston's premier smaller venues, TSW has successfully proven over the years that an enjoyable night at the theatre can be richly rewarding and inexpensive. Comedy, drama, classics, and original plays are all part of TSW's heritage, and each season brings new and enthralling productions, offering live theatre at its best. Recently revitalized by a move to a beautiful new home (3939 Hillcroft, Suite 160, at the intersection of Hillcroft and Westpark), TSW will continue to offer bold, thought-provoking work to Houston audiences for years to come.
Interview: Suzanne King, Bringing us STAGE WHISPERS About Houston Local Theatre
by Brett Cullum - January 02, 2026
I try to inform Houstonians about all the shows happening in and around the Houston area, as it can be daunting to keep track of them. I also include upcoming auditions for all talented actors in the area....
Review: INCIDENT AT VICHY at Theatre Southwest
by Jonathan Netek - September 14, 2025
INCIDENT AT VICHY is a lesser-known work by the legendary Arthur Miller in which nine men wait in a quiet detention room in Nazi-occupied France, unsure why they’ve been taken, what’s coming next, and who will be spared. As questions swirl and suspicions rise, a chilling truth emerges: the arrests a...
Interview: John Patterson of INCIDENT AT VICHY at Theatre Southwest
by Brett Cullum - September 09, 2025
Arthur built such a great crescendo that there's no stepping off the train, as, if you will, anywhere where you lose momentum by taking a break. So we just push right through the 90 minutes. Just one act, and you're out of the theater....
Review: BUG at Dirt Dogs Theatre Company
by Brett Cullum - May 20, 2025
They have managed to restage BUG for 2025, and boy, is it a doozy! You don’t want to miss this revival and reimagining of the Tracy Letts cult classic. The entire company goes for broke, and they create a fiery display of acting, visuals, and audio landscapes that will blow you back in your chair.
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Past Shows
Readers' Theatre
1/18
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
1/2 - 1/17/2026
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 ...
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
10/31 - 11/15/2025
Lone Star Spirits , a ghost story comedy written by Josh Tobiessen and directed by Randall Packer, will open (appropriately) on Halloween night, October 31, ...
Incident at Vichy
9/12 - 9/27/2025
Theatre Southwest opens its 69th season on September 12 with Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy"
2025 Festival of Originals (The FOO)
7/25 - 8/9/2025
Theatre Southwest presents the 28th annual Festival of Originals.
Mary, Mary
5/30 - 6/14/2025
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 ...
Mary, Mary
5/30 - 6/14/2025
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
4/11 - 4/26/2025
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
2/21 - 3/8/2025
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
12/31 - 1/18/2025
Comedy of Tenors by Ken Ludwig Directed by Sean K. Thompson One hotel suite, four tenors, 2 wives, three girlfriends and a soccer stadium filled ...
Festival of Originals (FOO)
7/25 - 8/9/2024
Theatre Southwest Presents The Festival of Originals – otherwise known as The FOO The Festival of Originals is an annual occurrence, in which playwrights all ...
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
5/31 - 6/15/2024
"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
2/23 - 3/9/2024
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
11/3 - 11/18/2023
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
9/15 - 9/30/2023
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
7/28 - 8/12/2023
Theatre Southwest Presents The Festival of Originals – otherwise known as The FOO The Festival of Originals is an annual occurrence, in which playwrights all ...
The Deer and the Antelope Play
4/14 - 4/29/2023
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 - ...
Silent Sky
2/24 - 3/11/2023
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
12/31 - 1/6/2023
Everybody Loves Opal by John Patrick Directed by Steve Carpentier Comedy. Opal, a middle-aged recluse, lives in a tumbledown mansion at the edge of ...
Outside Mullingar
11/4 - 11/19/2022
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
9/16 - 10/1/2022
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
4/15 - 4/30/2022
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
3/4 - 3/13/2022
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
1/7 - 1/22/2022
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
9/10 - 9/25/2021
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
5/28 - 6/12/2021
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
2/21 - 3/14/2020
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 ...
Reader's Theatre by Houston playwrights....
California Suite
12/31 - 1/18/2020
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
10/25 - 11/16/2019
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
9/6 - 9/28/2019
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 ...
These Shing Lives
9/6 - 9/28/2019
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
7/19 - 8/3/2019
5 original plays roughly 20 minutes each. 5 different directors, 5 different casts. Chosen from approx. 700 entries. Eclectic....
Stupid F%#@ing Bird
5/24 - 6/15/2019
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
4/5 - 4/27/2019
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
2/15 - 3/9/2019
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
1/4 - 1/19/2019
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
10/26 - 11/17/2018
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
9/7 - 9/29/2018
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)
7/20 - 8/4/2018
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
5/28 - 6/17/2017
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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The Bluest Eye
The Ensemble Theatre (1/23 - 2/22) | |
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Neil Simon's Rumors
The Owen Theater (1/23 - 2/8) | |
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Beautiful The Carole King Musical
Theatre Under The Stars (5/19 - 5/31) | |
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Swan Lake: International Ballet Stars in El Paso, TX! On April 11, 2026
The Plaza Theatre (4/11 - 4/11) | |
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GRAND HORIZONS
1824 Spring Street (2/4 - 2/21) | |
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Some Like It Hot
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (3/24 - 3/29) | |
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Swan Lake: International Ballet Stars in El Paso, TX! On April 10, 2026
The Plaza Theatre (4/10 - 4/10) | |
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Monty Python's Spamalot
Theatre Under The Stars (4/15 - 4/26) | |
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