Thursday, March 24, 2016
Each summer, they produce a musical with a cast of 30-some lawyers (and judges), who sing, dance, clown and act their hearts out to raise money for legal charities.
The show raised $105,000…
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With a little paraphrasing, the classic show tune makes a perfect theme song for pianist and educator Roger Woest.
In 2004, Woest found a way to combine two of his favorite activities, maki…
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Nottage, whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, has been well represented in Houston in recent years - with her "Intimate Apparel" produced at Main …
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The final work in the phenomenal 17-year collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, "The Sound of Music" has been an audience favorite since it premiered …
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Since most of her work has been experimental in form, "Straight White Men" may be considered atypical - a naturalistic play set in the family room of a middle-class home.
The eldest, once c…
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Of all the classic musicals that composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein created together, "The Sound of Music," their final collaboration, is the most familiar.
Stage reviv…
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The unusual format, rather than the content itself, is the chief interest in this modestly enjoyable novelty, making its area premiere at Theater LaB Houston.
For the rest of the show, man …
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Classical Theatre Company's startlingly effective production of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama "A Doll's House" demonstrates its command and originality, even before the action begins.
Johns…
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First and foremost, it marks the powerful Houston premiere of Robert Schenkkan's engrossing drama about Lyndon B. Johnson's tumultuous first year in the White House - one of the most deservi…
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Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just to the lyric fairy tale's plot about a lovesick water nymph who risks becoming human in hopes of winning the love of a prince she…
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The Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner roars with life in the Ensemble Theatre's vibrant production, astutely directed by Eileen Morris and showcasing Alex Morris' powerhouse performance as stro…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 06:32PM[...] the play boasts as compelling an opening scene as could be imagined, as Johnson takes the oath of office in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Nove…
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Houston Grand Opera's 2016-17 season will include the world premiere of a Jake Heggie opera based on the classic Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life," as well as the return of John Adam'…
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A particularly apt illustration adorns the program cover for Stages Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Brendan Bourque-Sheil's comedy "The Book of Maggie" - a signpost whose arrows variou…
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"Fun Home," winner of the 2015 Tony Award as best musical, and the new stage version of "An American in Paris," which won four 2015 Tonys including best choreography, will make their Houston…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 06:09PMAfter staging the same production of "The Marriage of Figaro" for a quarter-century, it was time for Houston Grand Opera to try a fresh take on Mozart's masterpiece.
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The finest of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's 10 operas, the "lyric fairy tale" - as he and librettist Jaroslav Kvapil described it - has been a favorite with audiences in the composer's hom…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:10PMGiven August Wilson's status as the pre-eminent dramatist of African-American life, it's little wonder veteran director Eileen Morris feels a special sense of mission each time she takes on …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:08PM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the 2015 Tony winner as best play, and Lincoln Center Theater's definitive revival of the classic "The King and I," 2015's Tony winner as…
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On Broadway in spring 2014, "The Bridges of Madison County" impressed as a distinguished piece of musical theater writing, expertly realized - indeed, one of the most beautiful and moving ne…
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The Bridges of Madison County" has found new life as a musical chiefly because award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown wanted the chance to write "a really heartfelt, full-bodied …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:39PMIn the view of the Sunday Times, the production "affirms Mozart's most beloved masterpiece as both of its time and perennially modern, Grandage oiling the comic mechanisms of Da Ponte's libr…
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National touring company brings the Houston premiere of Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman's critically acclaimed, Tony-winning musical, based on Robert James Waller's bittersweet novel ch…
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[...] Robert Simpson, the choir's founder and artistic director, has received the Prize in the Choral Conducting category.
Founded in 2009 and awarded annually, the American Prize is a seri…
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Idealistic playwright David can get his high-minded drama produced only with the backing of mob boss Nick Valenti, who insists on casting his talentless girlfriend Olive in a key role - the …
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Museums broke ground on major expansion projects that will dramatically change the landscape in a few years, theater companies revitalized their spaces, and local small arts groups of all ki…
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"Bullets Over Broadway," one of writer-director Woody Allen's funniest and most cleverly plotted movies, is a natural for translation to the musical stage.
Start with its setting in the 192…
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3 It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Director Frank Capra's ultimate masterpiece is the "King Lear" of Christmas movies in the depth of despair faced by protagonist George Bailey.
[...] amusing…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:16PMTheatre Under The Stars' stylish presentation bolsters the Houston premiere of this offbeat, intimate, concert-style show, suited to TUTS' "Underground" series.
Intended as a cross between …
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Yet "The Little Match Girl" sparked GrooveLily's offbeat concert-style musical "Striking 12," previewing Thursday and opening Friday as part of Theatre Under The Stars' "Underground" series …
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In Joseph Robinette's amusing book, faithful to the incidents in the film, and especially in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's sprightly score, the show tells its simple story with agreeable dire…
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