Spencer Plachy News

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

Check out a first-look video at Alley Theatre's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Rob Melrose, running through March 29 at the Hubbard Theatre.

Alley Theatre is presenting THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde through March 29 in the Hubbard Theatre. The production is directed by Rob Melrose. Check out photos of the show.

A.D. Players will present the world premiere of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: 2026, a contemporary stage adaptation written by Jayme McGhan. The production will be directed by Sophia Watt and staged at the George Theater in Houston.

Husband and wife duo Spencer Plachy and Laura Kaldis are no strangers to the world of Christmas at Pemberley. Having originated their roles as Mr. and Mrs. Darcy across all three installments of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s beloved holiday trilogy.

Main Street Theater will continue its 50th Season with its popular holiday tradition of the Pemberley plays with the latest in the series by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon: Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley.

A sweeping epic opens the latest Stages season.

How to Die: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer will preview at The George Theater Wednesday, April 9th and 10th, with the official opening on Friday, April, 11th. Performances run Wednesdays through Sundays until May 4th.

The author wrote this dark piece about a liberal couple whose mother invites a conservative stranger into their house on Christmas Eve to show how easily fascism marches in politely and with charm. It’s a tense and moody winter tale and warns of the ineffectiveness of the left when faced with the right’s ability to make folks nostalgic for times long gone. It’s perfect for this time of year and certainly pointed in our current political climate of 2024.

Rec Room Arts announced the start of performances for their holiday production, WINTER SOLSTICE. The show promises a captivating experience for audiences at the Rec Room theater.

I've tried to draw as much from the novel as I possibly could. I have seen a handful of film depictions. There's one thing in the novel that Van Helsing mentions about how Dracula has what Van Helsing calls a child's brain. That being undead, you are reborn at that moment, and much of your experience of the world around you starts over.

Houston’s CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY has decided to take it back to the original written word and return Dracula to the status of a demon rather than a lover. And yet, somehow, they have cast Spencer Plachy, who is the most swoon-worthy actor Houston has, a man who has embodied Mr. Darcy for years. Also, a man sexy enough to star in the Broadway tour of THE LION KING shirtless as Scar. It’s wild to see Darcy do Dracula and do it as a feral animal to boot. See what our critic had to say.

Alley Theatre will begin its 78th season with Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Learn how to purchase tickets.

There is a distinct charm to GEORGIANA AND KITTY that makes the audience feel like they are invited for Christmas at Pemberly. You get a true sense these actors are welcoming you to their world, and it’s a place that is joyously cozy for the holidays.

Main Street Theater has extended the run of GEORGIANA AND KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY. Find out more about this holiday production.

Main Street Theater (MST) continues its popular holiday tradition of the Pemberley plays with the latest in the series by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon: Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley.

Regency romance is back for the holidays at Main Street Theater with Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley—a companion piece to the duo's Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

Read what our critic through of the national tour of THE LION KING at the Eccles Theater is a spectacle like no other--a feast for the senses with eye-popping visuals and immersive music.  It thrills with its groundbreaking application of masks and cultural puppetry techniques, along with its ravishing use of light, shadow, and color. Its drumbeat is the heartbeat of the African savannah.

The North American tour of Disney's The Lion King is pleased to welcome Peter Hargrave, Nick LaMedica and Khalifa White as Scar, Zazu and Nala, respectively.

Disney's THE LION KING has found its way back to Tempe nearly a decade after its sold-out multi-week visit in 2013.