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THEATRE SOUTHWEST

3939 Hillcroft, Suite 160
Houston, TX 77057
(713) 661-9505

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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.

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! ...

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 ...



First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards; MATILDA Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Albuquerque Awards; SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Albuquerque Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Review: EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL at Musical Theatre Southwest


by Jackie Camborde - October 07, 2025

Ah, October – crisp fall leaves, apple picking, pumpkin patches and binge-watching Friday the 13th movies. What could be better? How about a campy, fun, action-filled horror musical? I’m not talking about Rocky Horror here, but Evil Dead: The Musical – playing now through October 26 at Albuquerque’s...

Musical Theatre Southwest to Present EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 26, 2025

Get ready for chainsaws, camp, and buckets of blood! Musical Theatre Southwest will present the cult sensation Evil Dead the Musical. Learn more about the production here. ...

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. ...

SAINT JOAN Coming to Tennessee Shakespeare Company in April


by Josh Sharpe - March 11, 2025

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) will bring G. Bernard Shaw’s masterwork of spiritual, political, and human inquiry, Saint Joan, to the Tabor Stage April 4-19....

Winners Announced For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Albuquerque Awards


by BWW Awards - January 07, 2025

Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Albuquerque Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024....

Review: THE WILD PARTY at Musical Theatre Southwest


by Jackie Camborde - October 10, 2024

You have to hand it to Musical Theatre Southwest – most community theaters play it safe, filling their calendar with Mamma Mia, Shrek and at least one production from the Golden Age of Musicals (Rogers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Lowe, etc.); MTS continues to dip their toes deeper into the reper...

Past Shows

Lone Star Spirits
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
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)


Theatre Southwest presents the 28th annual Festival of Originals.

Mary, Mary
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
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
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
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
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)
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


"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
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
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
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
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


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
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
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
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
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
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


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
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
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


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
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 ...

Spotlight: Houston Playrights


Reader's Theatre by Houston playwrights....

California Suite
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)


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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