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Upcoming Shows

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Apr 10 – Apr 19, 2026

Step into the living room…and buckle up.In this blistering, darkly funny masterpiece, George and Martha invite a younger couple over for drinks after a faculty...



Review: LEOPOLDSTADT at Main Street Theater


by Brett Cullum - April 01, 2026

Sir Tom Stoppard’s last play, LEOPOLDSTADT, is his most personal. He wrote a narrative loosely based on his own family, changed the location to Austria, and finally wrote a Jewish script. The show debuted in London in 2020 and ran on Broadway from 2022 to 2023. It garnered the Tony for best play t...

Review: RED MAPLE at MIGHTY ACORN PRODUCTIONS


by Brett Cullum - March 28, 2026

The whole show is well-produced, well-acted, and a lot of fun to watch. It’s endearing, funny, and it actually speaks to something deeper than you would expect....

Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Broadway At The Hobby Center


by Jonathan Netek - March 25, 2026

Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, Some Like It Hot is set in Chicago during Prohibition, when everyone is thirsty for a little excitement. ...

Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Alley Theatre


by Brett Cullum - March 17, 2026

Director Rob Melrose certainly knows how to pick actors and designers who know their craft and live it, while the rest merely exist....

Review: THE CHINESE LADY at Stages Houston


by Jonathan Netek - March 06, 2026

Another Lloyd Suh work pulls heartstrings this time at Stages....

Review: VENUS IN FUR at Dirt Dogs Theatre


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....

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at Broadway at The Hobby Center


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....

Review: KATY PERRY CANDY DARLING MARY MAGDELANE at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE


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....

Review: THE COUNTER at 4th Wall Theatre Company


by Jonathan Netek - February 21, 2026

Small Talk Turns to Tough Talk and Everything Changes....

Review: ENGLISH at Alley Theatre


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....

Past Shows

The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden
Feb 27 – Mar 8, 2026

Orphaned in India, 11-year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald and his disabled son Colin. The estate’s many...

A Very Holly Moosemas
A Very Holly Moosemas
Dec 5 – Dec 14, 2025

It’s August in Atlanta but Holly Anderson is convinced she can transform a movie set into a wooded, mountain Christmas masterpiece. With the assistance of...

Misery
Misery
Oct 31 – Nov 9, 2025

Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Sep 12 – Sep 21, 2025

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead plucks two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and thrusts them into the spotlight…only to have them wrestle with mortality, existential dread and a...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jul 11 – Jul 20, 2025

One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a reimagining of the Biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob,...

A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Apr 4 – Apr 13, 2025

Set on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s, Lorraine Hansberry’s celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family:...

9 to 5: The Musical
9 to 5: The Musical
Feb 28 – Mar 9, 2025

Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.Pushed to...

Elizabethan Madrigal Feast
Elizabethan Madrigal Feast
Nov 29 – Dec 15, 2024

Christmas arrives each year with a certain excitement and magic. On even-numbered years since 1988, The Center for the Arts & Sciences’ Elizabethan Madrigal Feast transports guests to...

Lobby Hero
Lobby Hero
Nov 1 – Nov 10, 2024

What happens when emotions come in conflict with principles, and how do choices under pressure define who we really are? Four New Yorkers involved in...

The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
Sep 13 – Sep 22, 2024

Neil Simon’s classic comedy opens as a group of the guys are in the midst of their weekly poker game in the apartment of divorced...

The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple
Sep 13 – Sep 22, 2024

Neil Simon’s classic comedy opens as a group of the guys are in the midst of their weekly poker game in the apartment of divorced...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Jul 12 – Jul 21, 2024

Take a fantastic musical adventure with an out-of-this-world car that flies through the air and sails the seas, based on the beloved 1968 film version...

Side by Side by Sondheim Dinner Theater
"Side by Side by Sondheim" Dinner Theater
Feb 14 – Feb 18, 2024

Join us for a dinner theater featuring the beloved musical revue, Side by Side by Sondheim, February 14-18. Tickets are $40 per person and include a...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Dec 8 – Dec 17, 2023

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the...

Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
Oct 27 – Nov 5, 2023

This masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene!A dangerous and sinister trio...

The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong
Sep 8 – Sep 17, 2023

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly...

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
Jul 7 – Jul 16, 2023

The Sound of Music is an intimate, heartfelt telling of one of history’s most thrilling and inspirational stories. This final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein follows Maria,...

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Feb 10 – Feb 19, 2023

Board the exotic and mysterious Orient Express with beloved detective Hercule Poirot as he battles the clock to figure out “whodunit” in this murder mystery that...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
Sep 9 – Sep 18, 2022

A tight-knit group of Louisiana women gather regularly at Truvys beauty salon to bond, dish and offer advice on everything from motherhood to tragedy and...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Jul 8 – Jul 17, 2022

The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the...

Sistas the Musical
Sistas the Musical
Mar 25 – Apr 3, 2022

After a matriarchs death, the women in the family clean Grandmothers attic and find love and old memories packed away, and in the process, hit...

An Evening with Robert Walzel
An Evening with Robert Walzel
Apr 2

Brazosport Symphony Orchestra is welcoming home Lake Jacksons own Robert Walzel in "An Evening with Robert Walzel" on Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 PM at...

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