anthropology
Houston premiere of anthropology, a new play from award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson.
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.
Upcoming Shows
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
TSW returns to the world of musical theatre with this entertaining romp by Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn about six quirky adolescents competing for a school championship. Come for the hilarious audience participation; stay for the songs!
Sweat
A hearty drama from the heartland: in this 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lynn Nottage, a close-knit group of Pennsylvania factory workers has lives and lifelong friendships destroyed by corporate greed and union lockouts.
The Constant Wife
W. Somerset Maugham’s 1926 comedy of manners gets a sharp, feminist adaptation by Laura Wade, as Constance, a self-possessed 1920s woman, figures out how to respond to her husband’s affair with her best friend.
To The Bone
Lost daughters and found humor: this dramatic comedy by Catherine Butterfield weaves together adoption, illness, baseball, and family secrets. Two sisters, former South-of-Boston “hard girls”, revisit their youthful days to face the future.
Articles
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Broadway At The Hobby Center
A Familiar Favorite Gets a Fresh Voice in THE SOUND OF MUSIC.…
Review: AMADEUS at REC ROOM ARTS
At first, when I heard Amadeus as a season opener, I thought, “How safe.” After seeing the show, all I can say is, “How dangerous.”…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Stages Houston
Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing the morning of September 11, 2001, and as a former New Yorker who lived there when it happened, that day is indelibly burned into my memory.…
Review: RHINOCEROS at THE CATASTROPHIC THEATRE
This company is at the top of its game, and the performances of George Parker and Kyle Sturdivant are iconic. But please, let’s progress in our politics and not make them do it again!…
Review: BABETTE'S FEAST at MIGHTY ACORN PRODUCTIONS
The acting here is superb, a very strong ensemble taking on a literary tale of how art can transform the world. It’s also a meditation on what we gain from immigrants who bring new perspectives, new expressions, and new art. At its heart, it’s about love and generosity of spirit.…
REVIEW: The Ensemble Theatre’s Purpose Is a Funny, Fierce, and Deeply Human Family Affair
What occurs when your family name has more importance than you do? This question sits at the center of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play Purpose, currently being performed at The Ensemble Theatre, and the answer is messy, hilarious, uncomfortable, and profoundly human. Because of the direction by Eileen …
Review: COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE at MAIN STREET THEATER
It’s flashy, loud, and has a silliness you can’t avoid. But there are the dark corners, and it does say a lot that you will be surprised to unravel.…
Review: PROOF at 4th WALL THEATRE COMPANY
4TH Wall does wonderful work here, and I really admire David Auburn’s script more for what it doesn’t do rather than what it does. It never really boils over into any sort of climax and refuses to offer an easy solution for anyone’s relationship in the show.…
Review: THORNFIELD at ZOOM SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS
It is painstakingly faithful to the book, save for some extra beats that make Jane a more modern-minded woman. Rebecca Bernstein’s performance is wonderful and a career-high for her so far. Luke Hales is the right Rochester, and Todd Thigpen is a delicious Mason.…
Review: COLLECTIVE RAGE at MILDRED'S UMBRELLA
I never thought I would have such a good time watching five women talk about their sexual organs, but I absolutely understood every moment as if I had been lucky enough to have been assigned female at birth.…
Past Shows
45 total · showing 31–40
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 moment her new next-door neighbor, Hannah Mae Bindler, bursts into Maude's perfectly ordered kitchen, her...
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 sea turtles and a monstrous man-eating octopus. Shipwrecked! examines how far we're willing to blur the line between fact and...
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 inhabit a Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems , anxieties and comical marital dilemmas. Neil Simon at his most...
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 from men, and rent a villa in Italy for a month. The women discover themselves and the world.
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 of freedom is shattered when the women begin to slowly realize the company's lack of concern for their lives. Their struggle to fix...
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. It doesn't matter if you know Chekhov or not. SFB is a roller coaster of emotions from hysterical laughter, absolute...
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. His apartment adjoins the next-door neighbor's apartment, and the new tenant happens to be an off-beat, free-spirited...
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 traditional settled nineteenth-century marriage. Nora, however, has lived for many years with a secret which is about to...
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Waitress Lutcher Theater (10/24-10/24) |
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Rhinoceros The Catastrophic Theatre (9/18-10/10) |
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Serial Killers: The Crucifixion of the Black Man in America Nikki El Films & Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
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HisStory by Hilary Bluestein-Lyons Theatre Suburbia (1/08-2/06) |
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Oh, Mary! Theatre Under The Stars (4/27-5/09) |
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We Only Come Out At Night Company OnStage (10/02-10/24) |
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PROOF 4th Wall Theatre Company (9/11-10/03) |
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Come From Away BASTROP OPERA HOUSE (1/22-2/14) |
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Agatha Christie’s Death on The Nile Alley Theatre (4/09-4/25) |
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Empowered: How One Girl Scout Nearly Destroyed the World’s Economy Company OnStage (4/03-4/24) |
