Upcoming Shows
Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with...
Vampire Count Fritz Fangful and his devoted assistant, Igor, have lived comfortably in the cellar of Rattrap Manor awaiting the perfect beauty whose blood will...
by Jonathan Netek - March 06, 2026
Another Lloyd Suh work pulls heartstrings this time at Stages....
by Brett Cullum - March 06, 2026
For Knight, this represents her first chance to be the original aggressor rather than the avenging victim, and it’s wild to see her twist her narrative. She is stunning and statue-esque, and Olivia whiplashes between actress and countess with skill....
by Brett Cullum - March 04, 2026
The book is full of mysteries, unspoken judgements, and a vicious sense of classism mixed with ruthless self-preservation, and there is not a lot of this present in this interpretation, brought to life by Kait Kerrigan's book, Jason Howland's music, and Fitzgerald-inspired lyrics by Nathan Tysen....
by Brett Cullum - March 03, 2026
KATY PERRY CANDY DARLING MARY MAGDELANE is a play with songs about how a musician meets Katy Perry, and how it impacts their life. It is also a comedy about a band trying to record a perfect pop song. It is a live concert....
by Jonathan Netek - February 21, 2026
Small Talk Turns to Tough Talk and Everything Changes....
by Jonathan Netek - February 20, 2026
ENGLISH, written by playwright Sanaz Toossi, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and crafts an intimate, devastating portrait of language—as both bridge and barrier. Set in an Iranian classroom, the play unfolds less as a traditional narrative and more as a series of moments unfolding over time....
by Brett Cullum - February 16, 2026
The show introduces us to a half dozen stories from one car, and it’s an interesting look at how humans interact, or in some cases, don’t....
by Brett Cullum - February 12, 2026
You are in a room with eight excellent performers doing songs purely for the joy of getting to sing them for an audience....
by Brett Cullum - February 11, 2026
It’s funny, it’s clever, but it sometimes seems to get too caught up in itself as a script. Yet the acting here is top-notch, and the Mildred’s Umbrella production is a wonder in such a small space. Jennifer Decker’s direction is sublime, and she has a solid cast....
by Armando Urdiales - February 01, 2026
What did our critic think of HANSEL AND GRETEL at Houston Grand Opera?...
Past Shows
In this third installment of the Doublewide, Texas trilogy, the gang is back for more rollicking comedy. The town has grown to 17 mobile homes...
The Manningham residence appears to be the essence of Victorian tranquility, but it is soon apparent, that Mr. Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly...
Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To...
It’s beginning to look a lot like... trouble in Doublewide, Texas! Not only are the residents of the tiniest town in Texas dealing with the...
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for...
Enjoy the last days of summer at CAST with an enchanting musical revue, with everything from sunny musical theatre and pop tunes to yacht rock...
Here comes the bride! Actually, we should say brides — four of them supposedly, to marry a quartet of love-starved citizens. If only their brides...
Six vibrant Southern ladies share their lives and loves in a small-town Louisianan beauty salon. Alternately hilarious and touching, this beloved story reveals the strength...
Set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching and some rueful—are taken together to create...
Claudette Harris and her best friend and neighbor, Doris Blumquist, have a long-standing rivalry concerning the gifts they receive from their husbands, and Claudette is...
After inheriting ten million dollars upon her husband's death, Mrs. Ethel Savage makes plans to give the entire fortune away to people who wish to...
Aboard the H.M.S. Majestic crossing the Atlantic, Snively Swine disguises himself as Sir Reginald Rottentot and, with the help of his sidekick Archnia, attempts to...
This comedy parodies every English mystery play ever written but with a decidedly American flair. Miss Maple, a dowager with a reputation for “clever” weekend...
The inhabitants of the smallest trailer park in Texas (4 doublewides and a shed) are thrown for a loop when they learn that the nearby...
An Army nurse’s experiences on the island of Corregidor during WWII are shared through a series of letters that she writes to and receives from...
The Charles Dickens holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast, complete with vintage commercials for fruitcake (extra-fancy), and the magic of...
A true classic by the grande dame of mysteries. A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm and one of...
This laugh-oriented, old-fashioned melodrama is based on Wilkie Collinss classic. This wild, fast and funny story features a disreputable (and hilarious) villain who dispatches his...
What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of AgathaChristie? Set during a weekend in an English country...
When two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different...
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