Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Yet the Ensemble Theatre gets considerable comic and dramatic mileage from the subject with its Houston premiere of Joyce Sylvester's "Women in the Pit."
A few questionable choices in the s…
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[...] if residual affection for the film convinces a company to revive the flawed stage version, they've got to move beyond that connection and make the project seem worthwhile in its own ri…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:20PMSet in "any first-ring suburb of a midsize city" (the title is metaphoric, not literal), the play depicts two couples whose get-together starts out ordinary but turns explosive.
Ben and Mar…
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Actor Julian Sands will perform his solo show "A Celebration of Harold Pinter" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Alley Theatre @ UH.
The show combines Pinter's poems and prose with Sands' anecdotes an…
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Both the 1982 movie and the 1995 Broadway musical are inextricably identified with the legendary Julie Andrews, for whom "Vic/Vic" was created in both media.
Though the original film remain…
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What if Germany had won the Battle of Britain in 1940 and England had been forced to live under Nazi occupation?
That's the intriguing premise of Noël Coward's "Peace in Our Time," a dramat…
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The play centers on Tom Trevor, a moderate conservative senator considered a rising star in his party.
[...] they seem at odds with their party, rolling their eyes at the more intolerant st…
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The two key reasons for doing the show, however, are well served in Krissy Richmond's sympathetic portrayal of the heroine and the orchestra's strong performance of Merrill's melodious score…
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In Houston for Alley Theatre's production of a Horton Foote play, Betty Buckley reveals that intuition played a big part in her career
Actress Betty Buckley was barely a teen when she had a…
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"New Girl in Town" makes its Houston debut this week, courtesy of Bayou City Concert Musicals - and it took only 57 years to get here.
A 1957 Broadway hit but seldom seen since, the show cer…
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The 2014-15 Houston theater season will not be the most adventurous the city has seen - not by a long shot. But consider some mitigating circumstances.
The Alley Theatre is treading cautiou…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 06:32PMIn successive flashes of light that quickly fade to darkness, the star is revealed in a series of characteristic poses - a striking start for the action.
Musing on the premise of "if I coul…
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Characters behaving badly are the core of many playwrights' works - but not usually Horton Foote's.
Oh, there may be the wastrel brother or cousin skulking at the edges. But in most of Foot…
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The Alley Theatre begins its year away from home next week. Yet the company's Houston premiere of "The Old Friends," opening Wednesday at the University of Houston's Wortham Theatre, has all…
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Rather young for the part then, Edmundson nonetheless seemed natural casting as the larger-than-life fashion editor and tastemaker who tackled every project with style and gusto.
An additio…
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Actress Sunny Thompson brings the legendary actress to life using the star's own words Yet Sunny Thompson has made such an impact in the solo play "Marilyn Forever Blonde!," it's obviously …
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Besides scenes with Julie before and after her stroke, Polly recalls her father, Mort, a retired sailor turned maker of gravestones.
Providing constant companionship and encouragement, past…
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Part of the Bard's four-play tetralogy charting the rise to power of Henry V, the play follows "Richard II," and precedes "Henry IV, Part 2" and "Henry V." Given the complicated political ma…
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Given its place in the Shakespearean canon, the customary explanation is that the youthful playwright was experimenting with basic form, as well as with themes (betrayal by a trusted friend,…
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"Wild and crazy" is the guiding principle for everything in Tamarie Cooper's annual summer musicals, especially the costumes.
From Gregory Dean's festively embellished duds (he's Christmas …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:39PMIf any two women could make lightning strike twice, the two would be famed fashion guru Diana Vreeland and actress Sally Edmundson, for three decades one of Houston theater's most arresting …
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Houston Chronicle review of "Bring It On."
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